Explain how governments are attempting to overcome the problems of rapid urbanisation

Urbanisation is the rapid movement of people from rural areas into urban areas. This generally occurred in MEDCs in the mid 19th Century, and is currently occurring in LEDCs. Urbanisation has many ostracise effects on a city, these can intromit deindustrialisation, housing fusss, ethnical minority groups and poor timbre of life.Deindustrialisation is the movement of manufacturing industries outside(a) from inside city areas. New technologies which start up in the area occupy a smaller work force. This leads to unemployment. What jobs are available are split into two jobs with half the wage, this leads to under employment where people can barely afford to live.The housing problems which become associated with urbanisation are by and large overcrowding, where there are more than one person per room in the house, and the other many problem is that there are many more owner occupancy housing, and these tend to be situated away from the intragroup areas. Those people who cannot a fford to buy properties are forced to rely on smaller and declining council rented houses. In LEDCs the new migrated population tend to build up temporary housing areas around the city, these are called dissimilar things in different places Brazils call them favelas, in Peru they are called barricades, Mexicans call them colonias proletarias and in India they are called bustees.Discrimination against ethnic minorities in both employment and housing opportunities often leave these people trapped in the inner cities. In general ethnic minorities live in wards which are even more deprived than the total Unemployment amongst ethnic minorities are almost always toweringer than the rate among the white population and ethnic minorities set about higher rates of overcrowding.Quality of life criteria let been used to highlight the substandard housing, educational disadvantage, ill-health, passing and poor environments (e.g. pollution). The residential populations typically include thos e least able to move such as the senile and recent immigrants.A number of policies have been introduced to try to reduce the problems of inner-cities, these include gentrification, conservation and rehabilitation and profound government policies.Gentrification is the term used to describe the remedyment of old buildings usually by private investment. The orthogonal of the appearance of the building is restored to its original quality and the interior is modernised. Gentrification can involve housing directly, like the Georgian terraces of London, another example is the Docklands Development Scheme where old factories or warehouses have been converted into houses. By providing high quality accommodation in areas where the environment has also been improved, in this way investment is drawn into the inner city areas.Conservation and rehabilitation involves the wide spread clearance of old terraced housing and replacement with multistoried flats, or by modernising the old houses to make them more suitable for people to live in. In Birmingham 75,000 houses were refer in the new housing scheme. The high-rise flats solution are thought to have failed because of the disruption to confederation life and the difficulty that living in flat can create.Central government policies have aimed to produce economic development and improve the urban environment so that new investment is drawn into the area. These policies include grants enterprising zones and city action teams. The London Docklands Development Corporation started a massive project in redesigning the Docklands, they built the light railway the city airport, new housing areas and new industrial opportunities. Much restoration has taken place in Salford Docks, in Manchester, where hotels, houses, factories, warehouses and a leisure complex have all been added to the Dockland area.In conclusion, urbanisation has caused many problems in both MEDCs and LEDCs, the governments of these areas have been trying to counteract these problems by reversing them or retardation them down. The solutions are often expensive but have many positive effects to the area. The aims of these policies are to improve the quality of life for the people in the inner city areas and to provide better opportunities for them. Many of these solutions have provided these results.