“Describe and account for the changes in urbanisation from 1950 – to date”

Altogether, there are two distinctly differing emerging trends in urbanisation, which occur in MEDC’s and LEDC’s. Obviously the economic differences between these two types of country will mean that overall, their rates of urbanisation differ, and have done so for the past fifty years.
The nineteen hundreds marked the end of the so called ‘industrialisation period’ of history, which spanned about two hundred and fifty years, and was the period during which industry really began, and mass urbanisation really began to take place.
Obviously, MEDC’s are much more widely affected by this, as they are generally fully industrialised, and therefore the above period (1950 – 2003) shows a period of recession. This will mean that although there would have initially been a great amount of urbanisation as people moved to where the industry was growing (resulting in places such as Canary Wharf), due to the recession in industrial growth, especially in urban areas, there seems to be a...