Urban life involves trade-offs. We may gain big benefits in return for suffering big disadvantages. Let’s consider two of them: the trade-off between individual With projections that 68% of the world’s population will be living in cities by , such as age, gender, ethnicity, education level and occupation. in dense urban areas may help people
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Living in a city and in an urban area, both has their advantages and disadvantages. First of all, living in a city is very stressful as the life is very busy and competitive there. Cities have lot more vehicles, industries and a large population and that pollutes the environment which is very harmful to the health In this activity, children will imagine that they are planning to move to a new area and must decide if they would prefer a rural or urban location. Reviewing their learning on the two different types of area, can they come up with a list of advantages and disadvantages for both rural and urban living?
Benefits of Living in High-Opportunity Neighborhoods - Urban Institute
Population aging is among the most important trends in 21st-century America and is occurring more rapidly in rural than in urban areas. 1 The rural United States is also home to disproportionate shares of people in poor health whose collective health profile has worsened over the past 40 years. 2 Fresh approaches are needed to understand and Defining urban health. The health challenges in urban areas are distinct from those elsewhere. In cities, the best health outcomes exist alongside the worst. Comparing two adjoining neighbourhoods of Clapham in South London, for example, men in one area live in good health for an average of 12 years longer than those a few streets away Table 2 shows the predominance of the Urban – Less Sparse area type; no other area type in this report includes such a high proportion of people. There is an interesting symmetry in the difference between urban and rural areas: in England urban areas contain about 80 per cent of the population but cover roughly 20 per cent of the With the rapid expansion of the urban landscape, successfully managing ecosystems in built areas has never been more important. However, our understanding of urban ecology is far from complete