Population density also has a major impact, where dense urbanisation such as in Japan and the far east has led to the adoption of high capacity long multi-axle buses, often double-deckers, while South America and China are implementing large numbers of articulated buses for bus rapid transit schemes.

The result was a large-scale immigration from poorer regions of Spain ( particularly Andalusia, Murcia and Galicia ), which in turn led to rapid urbanisation.

* Air and water pollution from rapid urbanisation

In China, where land acquisition measures are forceful, there has been far more and rapid urbanisation ( 51 %) than in India ( 29 %), where peasants form militant groups ( e. g. Naxalites ) to oppose such efforts.

Similar problems now affect the developing world, rising inequality resulting from rapid urbanisation trends.

The coming of the railways from the mid-nineteenth century onwards led to rapid urbanisation ; by the turn of the century much of Haringey had been transformed from a rural to an urbanised environment.

After World War II, Podgorica became Montenegro's capital and a focus of the rapid urbanisation and industrialisation of the Yugoslav era.

The consequent change in musical taste from traditional to more professional forms of entertainment arose in response to the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of previously rural populations during the industrial revolution.

Historically, the secondary sector dominated the economy, but due to rapid urbanisation and economic development, this sector of economy is slowly diminishing.

* Ubaid 3 / 4, sometimes called Ubaid I and Ubaid II — In the period from 4500 – 4000 BC saw a period of intense and rapid urbanisation with the Ubaid culture spread into northern Mesopotamia replacing ( after a hiatus ) the Halaf culture.

Music hall developed as a result of the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of previously rural populations in the nineteenth century.

Post-World War II development in the area closer to Melbourne led to rapid urbanisation and population growth — over 21, 000 residents lived in the Knox area by the 1961 Census.

Withington was largely rural until the mid-nineteenth century, in which it experienced rapid socioeconomic development and urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution, and Manchester's growing level of industrialisation.

Following the Industrial Revolution there was a process of unplanned urbanisation and a rapid increase in population size.

The 1960s saw the rapid disappearance of market gardens as urbanisation and industry advanced.

During the rapid urbanisation in the 1950s and 1960s, many families were able to retain their old farmhouses, village cottages and fisherman cabins and convert them into vacation houses.

Hawker centres sprung up in urban areas following the rapid urbanisation in the 1950s and 1960s.

The rapid growth and urbanisation of the population entailed an immense amount of new domestic and commercial construction, while the same processes combined with a religious revival to bring about a resumption of widespread church building.

As Mumbai expands frantically, rapid urbanisation and real estate development has started in the hinterland of Dharavi Bhet.

The rapid urbanisation of Delhi has led to mushrooming of such societies all over the city, noted societies are now coming out at Rohini and Dwarka.

Due to rapid urbanisation and habitat loss, the population at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve had been exterminated.

Problems related to rapid urbanisation started to plague the city from 1930s, and still the city is an example of an urban hotbed of the developing nations.

The town of Dehiwala has seen rapid industrialisation and urbanisation in recent years.

Using HIV-1 sequences preserved in human biological samples along with estimates of viral mutation rates, scientists calculate that the jump from chimpanzee to human probably happened during the late 19th or early 20th century, a time of rapid urbanisation and colonisation in equatorial Africa.

On the demand side, the rapid success resulted from a growing need in the developing world for armaments.

* Joe Marek chronology — Joe Marek's chronology is limited to stories written ( or devised ) by Howard, though within that context it is essentially a revision of the Miller / Clark tradition to better reflect the internal evidence of the stories and avoid forcing Conan into what he perceives as a " mad dash " around the Hyborian world within timeframes too rapid to be credible.

By the end of the 19th century the world had been forever changed by the rapid communication made possible by engineering development of land-line, underwater and, eventually, wireless telegraphy.

The Foreign Legion now had a new role as a rapid intervention force to preserve French interests not only in its former African colonies but in other nations as well ; it was also a return to its roots of being a unit always ready to be sent to hot-spots all around the world.

Although FY 2003 began with the rapid decline of the gourde due to rumors that U. S. dollar deposit accounts would be nationalized and due to the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, the government successfully stabilized the gourde as it took the politically difficult decisions to float fuel prices freely according to world market prices and to raise interest rates.

Similarly, the rapid adoption of the scientific method throughout the world was partly a side effect of the British Empire.

In the rapid economic developments in the 1960s and 1970s, Japan recovered its influences and became regarded as one of the major powers in the world.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

In December 2006, Polgár played a six-game match of blindfold rapid chess against former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov.

The arrival of Matthew Perry in 1853 and the subsequent Convention of Kanagawa forcibly reintroduced Japan to the outside world ; the rapid modernization of the Meiji Restoration soon followed.

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.

* Harry Beck, a London Underground employee who, in 1931, devised the famous diagrammatic map, which is the template for most rapid transit system maps across the world.

The city has a 28-station metro system, making it the smallest city in the world to have a rapid transit system.

In the subsequent power struggle among Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and Stalin, Bukharin allied himself with Stalin, who positioned himself as centrist of the Party and supported NEP against the Left Opposition, which wanted more rapid industrialization, escalation of class struggle against the kulaks, and agitation for world revolution.

It remains an essential crop in Europe ( especially eastern and central Europe ), where per capita production is still the highest in the world, but the most rapid expansion over the past few decades has occurred in southern and eastern Asia.

It remains an essential crop in Europe ( especially eastern and central Europe ), where per capita production is still the highest in the world, but the most rapid expansion over the past few decades has occurred in southern and eastern Asia.

The rapid development of ballistic missiles in the 1950s provided SAC with another means of carrying out its mission of being able to strike anywhere in the world.

One consequence of the period of poverty alleviation lending was the rapid rise of third world debt.

The removal of trade and investment barriers, the growth of domestic markets, artificially low currencies, the proliferation of education, the rapid development of high tech and information systems industries and the growth of the world economy lead to a significant growth of offshore outsourcing during the decade as many multinational corporations significantly increased subcontracting of manufacturing ( and increasingly, services ) across national boundaries in developing countries and particularly in China and India, due to many benefits and mainly because the two countries which are the two most populous countries in the world provide huge pools from which to find talent and as because both countries are low cost sourcing countries.

** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

* October 5 – The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York ; this is now the oldest right-of-way on the New York City Subway, the largest rapid transit system in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

The rapid urbanization of the last century caused more slums in the major cities of the world, particularly in developing countries.

By the end of 2008, the country had a fleet of over 24, 000 locomotives, the most lines in the world, the fastest express train in service, and longest high speed track in the world .. UK, Denmark, and other countries in northern Europe that surround the Baltic Sea and North Sea, continue to develop their rapid expansion of off-shore wind farms.