A STUDY OF URBANIZATION IN CONTEXT OF FUTURE MEGA CITY OF LAHORE

The growth of cities and the development of new territories are mostly dependent on people’s movement and the movements of people always remain an essential component of economic development, social change and political organization (Jackson, 1969). Migration takes place when an individual decides that it is preferable to move rather than to stay and where the difficulties of moving seem to be more than offset by the expected rewards (Parnwell, 1974). In most cases, younger, highly educated, skilled and dynamic people move to another place. Originally, the concept of migration is referred to a change in place of The movements of people refer to the concept of migration and urbanization. Basically these are the demographic concepts. In general, migration is a necessary element of population redistribution and equilibrium in any society. Today people move where not only economic but social opportunities are also better. Simply migration means the change of place from one area to other, or the area of origin to area of destination. Traditionally it can be divided into two parts: internal migration (people’s movement within the country o