Urbanisation Urbanisation - Example of Chicago   Urbanisation is the increase in population in cities or towns. The various effects of urbanisation on the settlement which undergoes this development range from ecological, economical, socio-economical, and socio-psychological consequences. An immediate change in the city’s landscape occurs to traditional local services and small scale industries, being substituted by business companies, often with national or international backgrounds. Rising rents drive the working class and people with low income out of the city. The following table and images show historical images from the site of Chicago, USA, and visualises the fast development of a rural area into a big city within a few decades.     År Befolkning 1820 15 1833 350 1840 4.000 1854 55.000 1860 90.000 1870 299.000 1898 1.698.575 2006 (City) 2.896.016 2006 (Metropolitan Area) 9.443.356       Chicago 1820           Chicago 1854           Chicago 1898           Chicago today           Last update: 18 April 2013 Himalayas  •  Environmental problems in the Himalayas (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMPKP0SAKF_0.html)  •  The Himalayan region (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEM9VP0SAKF_0.html)  •  Mountain ecosystems (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMKZP0SAKF_0.html)  •  Nepal area (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMP7Q0SAKF_0.html)  •  Tibet area (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMMDQ0SAKF_0.html) Exercises  •  Himalaya - Worksheet (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEM4IQ0SAKF_0_ov.html)  •  Landscape units of Nepal (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMXJQ0SAKF_0.html)  •  Urbanisation – 40 years of urban development of Lhasa (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEM5XQ0SAKF_0.html)  •  Urbanisation – Detection by means of delineation of the city perimeter (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEM8DR0SAKF_0.html)  •  Landslide detection in Langtang Himal (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEM0RR0SAKF_0.html) Links  •  Further Reading (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMW3S0SAKF_0.html) Eduspace - Software  •  LEOWorks 3 (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/LEOWorks3.exe) Eduspace - Download  •  Himalayas_env1.zip (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/eduspace/Himalayas_env1.zip)  •  Himalayas_env2.zip (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/eduspace/Himalayas_env2.zip)  •  Himalayas_env3.zip (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/eduspace/Himalayas_env3.zip)  •  Himalayas_env4.zip (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/eduspace/Himalayas_env4.zip)