Urbanization in Northern Corridor Economic Region in Malaysia

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Urbanization in Northern Corridor Economic Region in Malaysia Authored by Noraniza Yusof

Urbanization in Northern Corridor Economic Region in Malaysia Authored by Noraniza Yusof Published in London, United Kingdom

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Preface

Preface This book discusses urbanization in Malaysia and focuses on the northern area of Peninsular Malaysia. The data used in this book on urbanization in NCER is based on research conducted through the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (SO Code 13228).

Research on urbanization involves many aspects in the worldwide scope. One of the s tudies was performed by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, in 2014, which found that population growth and urbanization have been occurring for a long period without interruption and will result in the addition of 2.5 billion people to the world’ s urban population by 2050 with nearly 90% of the increase intensely focused in Asia and Africa. In the relatively near future and forthcoming decades, urbanization will increase the size and sp atial or geographic property of areas being scattered over the world. The relative amount of the world’ s population living in urban areas is likely to increase, reaching 66% by 2050.

There are many available literature studies on urbanization that concern the definition of urbanization, urbanization process, urbanization regarding countries or regions, and growth in urbanization. Moreno in 2017 indicated that since 1990 the world has seen a rise in the number, amount or degree of the process or activity of collecting its population in urban areas. This general trend is not novel, nevertheless occurring without interruption, and has been readily attracting attention due to the never-changing values of urban inhabitants. This urban transformation has led to cities being located in the central part of the development plan. Urbanization is one of the most important general tendencies of the past and present century, providing the groundwork and an impelling force for global change. Cities have become a positive and powerful force to deal with full development of a sustainable economy, advancement and an economic state of growth with rising profits and more employment. Cities require a series of actions to advance innovation or tending toward innovation, the utilisation of economic goods to satisfy needs and the investing of money or capital for profitable returns in developed and developing countries. Cities can become the leader in how to deal with many of the worldwide questions of the twenty-first century, covering poverty, social or economic disparity, unemployment and so forth, and these are the series that link all sustainable development goals. City densities and economic conurbation unite the energy, science, technology, social and economic results.

The research methodology utilised in this book is a quantitative approach to collect and analyse data for basic research. Time dimension was used for execution of surveys through questionnaires. The findings showed that the majority of the respondents agreed with the questions asked during data collection concerning urbanization and the role of urbanization.