What are the effects of urbanization? Wirth found that migrating from rural to urban areas changes the way people think and feel and leads to rootlessness and crime. Gans disagreed; he found urban dwellers have social networks, or urban villages, comparable to rural ones. Burgess studied the effect of human ecology on the use of space and found that race and class affected the distribution of resources. He developed a concentric zone model of cities. While urbanization leads to positive developments in richer countries, it often leads to poverty and crime in poorer ones. Globalization causes cities in developed countries to be very similar with regard to culture.
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