Abstract:
If urban migration trend is compared worldwide, developing countries have
a higher percentage. This is because the number of people added each year
escalates to add more to the already increasing population. We have had
countless discussions on the effect of urbanization challenges that these
countries face. But how often did we ponder on the deserted rural alleys?
The “pull” and the “push” factors for urban migration are discussed
worldwide, where economic, social and financial sectors are often debated
on. But then, the question outstands as, would there ever be “pull” factors
back in the rural areas or they would continue to be tagged as
“abandoned”.
The objectives settled for this discussion are first and foremost, to promote
and encourage incentives that would reduce urban migration to some
extent besides discovering ways that could be implied to revive these areas,
so that even after major migration phases, the rural areas would not be
considered inappropriate to function for the existing inhabitants. The
approach is exploratory, incorporating qualitative research strategies.
Scenarios from different countries are compared in the context of South
Asia, where the urbanization rate seems to have reached the height. The
results however are expected to have brought out ideas in for the country
sides to be re-enacting, most importantly, highlighting the involvement of
different actors in the process. It is expected that through these findings, we
would be able to conclude that urbanization, besides being an effect of
current globalization trend, with social aspects as well as the economic
ones, would not always bring negative phases for rural sides of the
developing countries but might as well open new opportunities for future
development sectors.
Citation:
Islam, S., & Tabassum, T., (2016). Rural urban migration, what happens next?. In J. Wijesundara, & R. Dayaratne,(Eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016. (pp. 32-39). Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa.