In the recent years, the proportion of the world’s population living in cities has increased substantially. People have moved in ever growing numbers from rural to urban areas. As migration from rural areas to cities continues, it is inevitable that the infrastructure on these cities will collapse. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is undeniable that the rate of people migrating from villages to cities has increased in a positive steep. Even though the infrastructure has not matched the rapid growth of the inhabitance, there is no underlying plan to facilitate this. I agree with the statement that this growth will lead the way to inevitable collapse of underlying framework. First, with the population increased within the urban areas, there won’t be enough space to occupy the mass. People will have to move into flats or other urban housing schemes, which are already overpopulated and reaching it's maximum capacity in an alarming rate. Since the available space is being a constant, it may soon fail to occupy the additional migrants. For example, many of the working class population in China has migrated to cities in order to finding the green pastures of life in past two decades, creating a unforeseen explosion of population in major commercial cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. To overcome this problem, Chinese government has relocated their industrial sector to the middle of their country where plenty of space available to accommodate the population. Secondly, the roads and other transportation infrastructure has already planned to satisfy the steady growth which they have predicted in the early stages of the development goes back to few decades. According to some studies carried out by modern urban development researchers, this rate has multiplied by tenfold. The number of vehicles on the road has increased proportionally with the workforce shifted to urban neighborhoods for their convenience. Not only the capacity of the road but also the parking capacity has been limited faster than predicted few years ago. With the scarcity of land available, these infrastructures are also in the brink of fallingin. In conclusion, the steep gain of people moving into cities from rural areas has created a unpredictable failure in existing infrastructure to serve. Soon or later, these will not be able to support as needed and there is an imminent threat of collapsing