1. WELCOME TO
URBANIZATION
Vocabulary:
Urbanization
Migration
Tenement Buildings

2. LIFE BEFORE CITY MIGRATION
 Village Life
 Dominated – families
Were nearly self-sufficient
Most villagers were farmers
Migration: the movement of a group of people from one location to
another

3.  The Industrial Revolution
required people to migrate to
the cities.
 They had to move thanks to
Enclosures
Removed villagers from
their farms
 Villagers had to work and the
only jobs were factories
 What happens when hundreds
of thousands of people
migrate to an area?
URBANIZATION

4.  People move from Rural Areas to Cities
Urbanization: the process by which towns and cities are formed
and become larger as more and more people (migrate) begin
living and working in central areas.
URBANIZATION

5. PROBLEMS THAT URBANIZATION
CAUSED?
 No Sanitary Codes
 No Building Codes
 Lacked adequate:
 Housing
 Education
 Police Protection
 Slums developed for the first time in history
Slums: overcrowded urban street inhabited by very
poor people.

6. LET’S LOOK FURTHER
INTO URBANIZATION