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Sociology Reference Guide: Population & -- Urbanization -- Contents -- Introduction -- Demography in Sociology -- Industrialization: Demographic Transition Theory -- Trends in Global Population Growth -- Malthus & -- Population Growth -- Population & -- Stratification -- Post-Industrial Growth of U.S. Cities -- The City & -- the Industrial Revolution -- Gemeinschaft & -- Gesellschaft -- Gentrification: A Tangled Web of Cause & -- Effect -- The Megalopolis -- The Chicago School of Sociology -- Robert Park & -- Urban Ecology -- U.S. Urban Political Economy.

Thepurpose thispaper is to provide a broad overview of the recent patternsand trends of urban growth, and to discuss the relationship between urbanization,economic and population growth and environment in Semarang City. Over the last20 years many urban areas have experienced dramatic growth, as a result of rapidpopulation growth and as the world's economy have been transformed by acombination of rapid technological and political change. Centralistic type ofdevelopment from New Era Government gives consequences in the formation ofmega urbanization. As a geographic phenomenon, urbanization is seen as acontinuumfrom community level until global level. In the cases of Semarang, thereis much more than a doubling. Net migration in many cases contributes as muchas two thirds of the population growth in these zones, whereas in the city cores, netmigration contributes little to growth. The main factor which is influencingurbanization process in Semarang is the growth of service sector, especiallyinformal activities. A comprehensive model suggests that urbanization in Semarangis influenced by structural and social demographic factors. So, the balancebetween managing urban discharges to environment and enhancing environmentalresource capacity is key determinant of the sustainability of the development inSemarang and livabilitY in general

Urban governance on the basis of human rights can help to set up problem solving mechanisms to guarantee social peace, economic growth and political participation.If states both integrate more in international or regional human rights regime and give more autonomy to urban governments and local authorities, many of these issues of urbanization can be solved. Where people organize themselves on local levels and in neighborhood initiatives, new forms of governance mechanisms evolve. These mechanisms include a wide range of human rights, principles and standards such as equal participation, ethnic and religious tolerance, gender equity, health and education initiatives, access to food supplies, property rights, access to information through the internet and even sexual and reproductive rights. The ability to freely communicate and participate will lead to more transparency, accountability, adaptiveness, integration and equity.