RKC HOLDING

The history of American cities is substantially a story of the invention of new institutions and technologies to cope with two centuries of massive urbanization. Cities have been the pioneers of American growth. It has been city-based bankers, merchants, and journalists who have linked individual resource hinterlands into a single national economy. The United States was a pioneer among urbanizing nations. Along with Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, It was among the very first to feel the effects of the urban-industrial revolution. There are different forms of urbanization, or concentration of human activities, settlements, and social infrastructures. For instance, the United State or United Kingdom have a far higher urbanisation level than China, India or Nigeria, but a far slower annual urbanisation rate, since much less of the population is living in a rural area while in the process of moving to the city.