The meaning of urbanization

The simplest explanation of the concept of urbanization is the phenomenon and process of transformation from agricultural population and agricultural land to non-agricultural population and urban land, which includes the following aspects:

(1) The change of population occupation is from agriculture to non-agricultural secondary and tertiary industries, indicating that the agricultural population is decreasing and the non-agricultural population is increasing.

(2) the transformation of industrial structure. After the industrial revolution, industry continued to develop, the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries continued to increase, and the proportion of primary industry decreased relatively. The development of industrialization has also brought about the modernization of agricultural production, and the rural surplus population has turned to the secondary and tertiary industries in cities.

(3) With the change of land and regional space, agricultural land has been transformed into non-agricultural land, from relatively scattered and low-density living condition to relatively concentrated and high-density living form, and from space close to natural environment to spatial form dominated by artificial environment. Urban land is relatively concentrated and the population density is high, which is conducive to the construction of relatively perfect infrastructure, including paved roads, sewers and other public facilities, and can have more cultural facilities, which greatly improves the quality of life compared with rural areas.

Urbanization can also be called urbanization, because cities and towns are urban settlements, and they are mainly based on secondary and tertiary industries. The difference is only the habit or scale of using words.