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Urban transition

Dernière mise à jour le 15 juin 2019

The demographic transition is called « urban transition ». This is defined as the period during which a country moves from a low level of urbanization in a majority rate of urbanization. The urban transition has obviously a schedule, duration and intensity varies greatly peys, but it involves two steps bounded by an earlier phase and a later phase.

In the previous phase, so transitional, a predominantly rural economy and agricultural (and which prevailed throughout the planet until XVIIIth century), the weight of large cities is nulet the urbanization rate very low. (…) Then entering the demographic transition is accompanied by an urban transition. In the first stage of this transition, population growth and the rate urbaniastion are very fast, more intense than the population growth of the country’s population. Cities have indeed d ela combination of influx is an important and increasing natural growth. (…)

In the second stage of the urban transition, the growth rate of urbanization is slowing. On the one hand, natural increase declines as a result of fertility decline often earlier in cities than in rural areas; Auter of share, the rate of rural out-migration decline. The urban transition increased the population of most rural to an urban majority, and then the country in a post-urban transition.

Source: Gérard-François Dumont, ‘The urbanization of world population and’ Living City – Global Observatory of urban lifestyles, PUF, 2008. http://www.veolia.com/fr