Views Of Urbanization In Canada

Urbanisation has the ability to be defined in several ways according to different views by using different characteristics and looking at the history of past experiences. It has been 

identified throughout the early rise of the Canadian cities, as well as being affected and 

referred to by the growth and changes of the regions in Canada.


Although urbanisation can be defined as the process of which a big number of people 

permanently move in to a somewhat small area forming a city, excluding the work of non-

agricultural activities, it can likewise be defined in different ways such as looking at the 

criteria of the population size, density, space as well as the economic organisation. 

According to Harry Hiller, cities have now become

In addition to that, there are two views of 

urbanisation. One of the two of the definition is more towards the reference to the 

movement that people make to the cities, or the increase in the size and the density. The 

talks of the a population coming to be slightly more urban indicates that there is a big 

number of more people moving into the cities, or even maintaining there. Moreover, there 

are also two concepts illustrating the awareness of the cities in which are: the 

metropolitan concentration, which looks at the number of inhabitants, and the 

metropolitan regionalisation, which is referred to the terms of territory. These give us 

heads-up into the assumption that some places are more urbanised in comparison to 

others. A sociologist of urbanisation, Louis Wirth (1938), had taken three variables of 

demographics which consisted of size, density and heterogeneity. In his belief and 

acknowledgement, these three are the most crucial for the reasoning behind making 

people urban. It was concluded that the bigger the city, the denser the population, and 

the more

In continuation with regards to this view, even the people who are living in 

rural areas are becoming rapidly urbanised. Part of this is because cities are the servers 

of new ideas, activities, organisations, malls, sports, concerts, etc. Wirth had come to the 

interpretation that once the three demographics(size, density and heterogeneity) had 

been in creation of urbanism, there was a specific way of life and a number of 

relationships had their intimacy lost, becoming more complex. Consequently, 

urbanisation was soon seen as a catalyst that builds up consequences. A well-thought 

question that could be asked, that I had come across in the Urban Canada book, is - 

“whether cities themselves are the causes of the changes we identify or whether cities 

are just the places where they occur” - a strong suggestion of thought towards 

urbanisation. Furthermore, the process, or the procedure of urbanisation is more often 

involved with value judgements which is defined as the assessment of something in 

either, good or bad according in terms of someone’s