Problem
Vulnerability of small towns
Nature:
It is increasingly hard for small towns to continue to exist in the face of massive migration to cities.
Incidence:
During the last 30 years, 30 million rural Americans have been forced to migrate to large cities, and such migration continues at the rate of 800,000 people a year; and in numbers of other countries - in Ireland and India for example - many people also move to towns in search of more interesting work, and for a better life - looking for information, for a better connection with their own culture. This is invariably having bad effect on small towns. For example, 50% of those people remaining in rural America live on less than $3,000 a year, and there is little money to revitalize the towns they live in.
Broader Problems:
Spatial imbalance of human settlements Narrower Problems:
Absorption of rural communities Related Problems:
Artificiality of parkland Values:
InvulnerabilityVulnerability Subject(s):
Amenities → TownsSocietal Problems → Vulnerability
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems Date of last update
03.06.2019 – 23:47 CEST