Editing Urban geography (section)

=== Urbanization ===
{{Main article|Urbanization}}

Urbanization, the transformation of population from [[rural]] to urban, is a major phenomenon of the modern era and a central topic of study.<ref>Carter (1995), p. 17. "This latter fact emphasizes that 'the most conspicuous feature of today's accelerated world population growth is its even greater rapidity of urbanization. In many periods of history, populations have grown, but the tempo and dimensions of recent years have never been equalled' (United Nations, 1969). It follows that urbanization is the predominant process in the spatial organization of the world's population and it is this which makes its geographical study an imperative and perhaps puts the niceties of definition into proper perspective."</ref>