One of the fundamental reasons of the uncontrolled urbanization is economically and socially insufficient living conditions in rural areas. “Providing a controlled urbanization depends on interacting urban and rural areas, in other words, balancing them” (Web 2). In this reason, the effectiveness of rural activities should go on, these activities should be diversified and the contribution to the national economics should be increased, agrarian sources and the rural environmental issues should be protected and they should be used reasonably, the people who live in rural areas should be brought together with social, cultural and technical substructures and facilities.
Rural and urban settlements are the units that have different attributions and they do not have similar localities. These settlements have different lifestyles that have distinctive characteristics according to the economical and social activities and the relationship with the nature.
Rural areas are qualified according to density of rural functions. These functions are showed up in using of land, in style of production style, in professional structure, in the characteristics of rural area and in the magnetic field of the producer and the service society. Because hegemony of the rural functions means less urban functions at the same time, rural areas can be characterized as places that do not belong to urban areas.
Urban settlements are the area where the activities about merchandizing, industry, laboring and management are ascendant. As a management point, places in the borderline of a certain administrative organization unit (municipality) is called urban area, places outside of that borderline is called villages.
The United Nations Development Program announced today that unemployment remains the world's number one urban problem, according to a survey of mayors of cities from around the world. A similar survey also revealed unemployment as the world's foremost urban problem.
The second most serious problem faced......
