How has Innovation helped Urbanization and Population Growth Happen for Mega Cities Such as The Rhine-Ruhr Area?

RHINE RUHRThe youngest MEGA CITY of the All!

With A Population Of 11,316,429

WHAT IS A MEGA CITY

A megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population of ten million people.

A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge.

Historically, most of the Ruhr area was for the most part characterized by heavy industry since the age of industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Since the Middle Ages, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities were important regional trading cities, but during the 19th century the city of Düsseldorf grew to become the administrative center of the region and since 1945 its political capital.

Urbanization and Innovation In Mega Cities

Throughout History Innovation has helped in so many ways that lead too expanding the cities. Some examples are

TRAIN AND TRAM

North-Rihne-Westphalia has the densest network of Autobahns in Germany.

The rail, S-Bahn, U-Bahn and bus companies are administered through a consortium of local and regional transport lines, the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr.

It offers a rapid transit system which interconnects all cities and their respective local buses, trams, U- and S-Bahn systems, partly under the umbrella of Deutsche Bahn.

INSURANCE SYSTEM

The idea of All the different insurance programs being financed by the people not the taxes. This created the highly affective insurance program that brought Germany to its strong financial state.

WATER CANALS

For trading reasons they dug out spaces for canals so that the could transport the coal, and the steel from the mines and the factories.

Today, the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region accounts for roughly 15% of the GDP of the German economy

Despite this size, the Rhine-Ruhr region as a whole often lacks international competitiveness

The whole industrialization of the Rhine-Ruhr area was a great role model for all the other newly industrialized cities.

http://www.duesseldorf.de/en/economic/standort/agglomerationen.shtml

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43064362.html

http://www.vrr.de/en/index.html