However , in Thailand , urbanization has also resulted in massive increases in problems such as obesity . Shifting from a rural environment to an urbanized community also caused a transition to a diet that was mainly carbohydrate based to a diet higher in fat and sugar , consequently causing a rise in obesity . City life , especially in modern urban slums of the developing world , is certainly hardly immune to pestilence or climatic disturbances such as floods , yet continues to strongly attract migrants . Examples of this were the 2011 Thailand floods and 2007 Jakarta flood . Urban areas are also far more prone to violence , drugs , and other urban social problems . In the United States , industrialization of agriculture has negatively affected the economy of small and middle-sized farms and strongly reduced the size of the rural labour market
2011 Thailand floods
2011 Thailand floods
Urbanization