- Pseudo-urbanization
Pseudo-urbanization is the condition in which a large city has formed in an area without a functional
infrastructure to support it. As the population of an urbanized area grows, the city's infrastructure must grow with it, or elseshortage s will develop, typically inhousing ,transportation ,clean water andwaste removal services, or other services such as law enforcement. Overpopulation in urban areas is often characterized byshanty towns , where such services are inadequate or wholly absent. A city much of whose recent growth has been in the absence of adequate infrastructure will be "pseudo-urbanized".Urbanization in the third world tends to consist primarily of pseudo-urbanization. This happens largely because of so-called "rural push": factors which push people from the countryside into the cities, without the city being prepared to accept them. Rural-urban migrants in the third world usually move into the cities because of poverty related reasons, leading to a demographic explosion and a progressive concentration of poor migrants in the cities. This is a finite process, as one city can only hold so many people due to limited infrastructure and available resources
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*cite paper
author = Pranati Datta
title = Urbanisation in India
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publisher =
date =21 June 2006
url = http://www.infostat.sk/vdc/epc2006/papers/epc2006s60134.pdf
format = PDF
accessdate = 2007-05-07
*cite book |last=Davis |first=Mike |title=Planet of Slums |year=2006 |publisher=Verso |isbn=1844670228
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