Analyzing Challenges and Solutions for Urban Population Growth Issues

This report analyzes the multifaceted challenges associated with the increasing urban population. It begins by highlighting the global trend of urbanization, projecting that a significant portion of the world's population will reside in urban areas by 2050. The report then discusses the strain this places on resources, particularly food production, and cites examples like Havana's self-sufficient urban farming initiatives. Key challenges identified include increased competition for resources, reduced arable land, job scarcity, and the strain on government services. The report also addresses the negative environmental impacts, such as pollution, and discusses student perspectives on these issues. The references include insights into interdisciplinary problem-solving in urban development. Overall, the report underscores the urgent need for sustainable urban planning and innovative solutions to address the complex problems arising from rapid urban population growth.

Running head: INCREASE IN URBAN POPULATION
Increase in Urban Population
Name of Student-
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Hunger is an important issue that is faced in this 21st century. Over one billion people are
hungry chronically in this whole world. The solution to this hunger is movement of people to
urban areas. It has been stated that “By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in an urban
environment”. This is a solution that is found globally to mitigate the issue of hunger. This leads
to issue of producing food for all its residents those who are in the densely populated areas.
Havana and Cuba are such cities those who are able to produce their own food for all the
residents and provides habitat that are self sufficient1. Havana produces almost 50 percent of all
its production within the boundaries of the city. As people are moving to the urban areas leading
the cities in more densely populated, the land for producing food is reducing. Cites cannot
provide protein based food to its residents. Cities that are situated along the riverside are not able
to provide their residents with protein rich fish because of the increasing population.
The challenges that arise due to increase in population in the urban areas are:
 Due to rise in population, cities become more congested for which cultivation and
farming is not possible for the city farmers. No barren lands are available because of the
increase habitat in the cities.
 Another problem that comes due to increase in population is that less availability of jobs
in the cities. As there are fewer jobs available in the market, people remain unemployed.
Mostly people migrate to urban areas for the need of money. But due to this increase in
population, people are unable to earn the required amount of money.
 The government is also unable to give service to all the people in the cities because of the
number of population.
1 Gabel, Medard. "The design science/global solutions lab: interdisciplinary
problem/project-based research and learning." ASEE American Society For Engineering
Education Spring(2010).

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 Due to increase in population, pollution also increases in the cities. Traffic also increases
due to increase in cars and vehicles.
Student response 1:
I agree with the point argument that by 2050, almost 70 percent of all the people around
world will live in the urban areas. Due to increase of hunger in rural areas, all people are shifting
to urban areas so that they will able to arrange food for them. People move to urban areas in
search of food and job. But due to increase in population in urban areas, the cities are unable to
provide all its residents with all the requirements that they need to survive. Due to increase in
population, the pollution in those urban areas also increases. To tackle all the people of the city,
the government also faces difficulty to provide service to all the citizens of the city.
Student response 2:
I agree with the statement because due to rise in population in urban areas, many
challenges are faced by the urban cities. People think that there are ample amount of jobs
available in the cities. But due to increase in population at a tremendous rate, the availability of
jobs also decreases. There avails less amount of job and the residents suffer from unemployment.
People generally migrate from rural area to urban areas in search of food and job and also to
make their life better. But increase in population does not allow people to live a better life. The
cities also face many challenges due to increase in population. Due to increase in population, the
cities get polluted and the government is unable to provide service to all its citizens. As the
population increases, land of cultivation also decreases because the lands are captured for the
dwellings of the residents.

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References
Gabel, Medard. "The design science/global solutions lab: interdisciplinary problem/project-based
research and learning." ASEE American Society For Engineering Education Spring(2010).