2. Costs of the Urbanisation Process
The urban population recorded an extremely fast growth, both in developed and in developing countries,
therefore creating difficult problems of human being adaptation to the new living conditions and entailed a
significant increase in the social cost of urbanisation. The human being habitat types got turned, meaning that
though the world population increased 2.7 times, the urban population increased 29 times during 1800 – 1950, while
the population in villages only got doubled.
The fast urbanisation process, particularly in developing countries, boosted the issue of the social cost of
urbanisation and development, deepened the gap between the two areas of social life and sharpened the effects upon
the development of natural and socio-economic balances.
Firstly, of course, we should think about the quantifiable costs, such as the expenditure for the organisation and
functioning of towns and the creation of jobs, for the construction of dwellings, for services, etc.