How did industrialization in a few parts of the world promote urban growth in many other areas?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Urban growth in other areas
1. cities mushroomed in parts of the world that played only a minor or
marginal role in industrialization
a. mining cities
1. Kimberley and Johannesburg in South Africa with discovery
of diamonds
2. Gold turned Melbourne, on Australia's farthest edge, from a
rudimentary settler village in the 1830s into the third
largest city in the British Empire
b. trade stimulated port cities all over the world
1. New York experienced enormous growth—from 60,000
inhabitants at the beginning of the nineteenth century to
nearly 3.5 million by 1900
2. Alexandria on Egypt's Mediterranean coast had grown to
about 250,000 by the century's end because it was a
transitional port for Egyptian cotton
3. Palm oil and cocoa made Lagos, Nigeria boom in the
late nineteenth century
4. Buenos Aires grew rapidly thanks to the refrigerated meat
trade
5. Calcutta started the twentieth century with more than
750,000 people, because of its role in exporting dyes and
fibers from Bengal
6. Shanghai became the port of choice for European merchants
in China