Problem
Excessive population mobility
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
RootlessnessInadequate sense of social-cultural context
Absence of socializing systems
Disturbing transient mobility
Rapid transient flux
Temporary resident patterns
Incidence:
Connected with bad housing, both as cause and effect, is the shiftlessness of a large proportion of many new urban populations. Where housing conditions are unsuited to family life, the worker is discouraged from bringing his family into the industrial area; he does not feel permanently settled in the area of his place of work and remains tied to his former community. Even when there are housing opportunities, industrial workers of peasant origin often fail to become integrated and assimilated into modern urban society and the stream of urban life; instead they tend to form a sub-culture of low status, living separately in special quarters and pursuing a mode of life that is half urban, half rural.
Broader Problems:
InstabilityDisunity in urban villages Narrower Problems:
Historical rootlessnessUncontrolled immigrationUninvolved transient residentsIrresponsible transient occupantsExcessive mobility of village populationsInadequate community care for transient urban populations Aggravates:
DeculturationFamily breakdownInadequate housingHomogenization of culturesDisruptions due to migrationMental disorders of the agedUnmeaningful relationships to placeSmall resident professional workforceAdjustment difficulties of new urban familiesDisunity in urban villagesMaldistribution of population within countries Reduced By:
Dependence within extended familiesStrategies:
Increasing general public mobilityPutting down rootsMoving frequentlySystematizing socialization Subject(s):
Amenities → Housing, tenantsConsciousness → Consciousness
Culture → Culture
→ Systems
Design → Patterns
Fundamental Sciences → Electromagnetism
Recreation → Celebration
Societal Problems → Deprivation
Societal Problems → Inadequacy
Society → Social
Sociology → Population
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
C: Cross-sectoral problems Date of last update
16.04.2019 – 15:23 CEST