Compare and contrast how urbanization has effected two contrasting regions and consider their future developments.

... Compare and contrast how urbanization has effected two contrasting regions and consider their future developments. Urbanization is the process of change from a rural society in which people live scattered across the landscape to an urban society where people are concentrated in thickly populated nodes. The two areas that will be used to show how urbanization effects two contrasting regions, are Hong Kong and Birmingham. Hong Kong has developed from a small fishing community, into a thriving port, it was Hong Kong's status as a colonial port that has allowed it to develop and industrialize and prosper despite the lack of any significant resources, Hong Kong's Location is it's resource. The West midlands, Birmingham which at its industrial height became known as the Black Country. This industrialized because it had the cheap labour and was ideally situated, near the necessary raw materials with good transport links. Allowing it to become

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