Urban Sociology

Urbanization happens as result of p increasing population and crowding in a given region or a city. It is also associated with the fact that there is increasing movement of people from the rural areas to the urban set up like towns and cities in general. The onset of urbanization began a long time ago when people started moving or migrating from the rural areas to the cities with the belief that they could be exposed to a better life than that in the rural areas.

In modern times urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization. Urbanization can describe a specific condition at a set time, i.e. the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns, or the term can describe the increase of this proportion over time.

With the growth in urbanization came the urban communities. These are communities of people who live in these urban centres. As part of your study of urban sociology, this book provides an elaborate account of the urban communities to help with a view to provide a deeper understanding of these communities. The book provides a detailed overview of all the aspects of the urban community. It starts by discussing the concept of urban communities, Such as the characteristics of urban communities, the positive aspects of urban communities and the negative aspects of urban communities.

The book then delves into the issue of identities, differences and territories as they pertain to urban communities. Here it introduces the four dominant processes and subsequent trends in urban pollution growth and urban communities. It also tackles the issues of language differences as instrument in the urban community, segregation and differences in territories of urban community and income segregation in urban communities. To better understand urban communities the book takes a look at the lifestyle and consumption habits of urban communities. In this section the book covers urban lifestyle, shopping behavior of the urban communities, food consumption patterns of the urban communities, alcohol consumption and the urban communities and impact of the millennial preference on the urban lifestyle.

In the chapter on culture of the urban communities the book explores the concept of urban culture, the factors that influence the...