Urbanization & Expansion in Cities

As in the other countries of the world, in India too, the rate of urbanization is too high, and for various reasons the people of the Indian villages are leaving their villages and having settlements in the various cities. In fact, the more the times are advancing, the more people from the Indian villages are settling down in cities. Urbanization is not bad, and that it is now considered good for a balanced personality of the individual, but it has changed the picture of the villages. There are, no doubt, big houses in villages built in a large area, but they lack people to live in.
Urbanization is responsible for the creation of new towns and cities which provide shelter to the new arrivals and which attract them to settle down there abandoning their rural homes. The cities too are affected adversely as the more density of population there is, the more problems there arise. Under the influence of those who are already settled in cities and attracted by the city culture, thousands of people leave the villages, but the surface reality is that in cities they face several unknown problems.
As a result of the ongoing process of urbanization, the cities in India are expanding day-by-day and illegal housing is taking place which often result into the untimely death of the people there. At present, probably there is no city in India where expansion is not taking place in the form of slums, urban sprawl etc.
The paper is a theoretical study on the urbanization and expansion of cities. It deals with the causes and effects of urbanization, and highlights the picture of expansion in the Indian cities in general.