The Long Residuals of Basketball With 25‚000 dollars‚ one could buy a luxury car or even put a down payment on a home. On Christmas Day though‚ that was the amount of money spent on a pair of courtside seats to watch the Los Angeles Lakers play the Miami Heat in the Staples Center (ticketmaster.com). From high school to the professional level‚ contemporary basketball maintains a distinct level of media attention and focus unlike any other sport. High-flying dunks and last second buzzer beaters
Premium City Basketball National Basketball Association
..................................................................................................... 5 U3 – Urban Cores ............................................................................................................. 6 S1 – Elite Suburbs
Premium Suburb City White-collar worker
settlement pattern. The reduced travel time made possible by these new transport options meant that there was now more choice available‚ for those who could afford it‚ on where they could live. Forster regards this as the establishment of the residential suburb and as it occurred so did residential segregation. The development of the transport city in Australia further highlights the unique character of Australian cities compared to what was seen in Europe. Australia had a large middle class and higher
Premium City Urban area Town
The urbanization of the United States of America has progressed throughout the entire history. Since 19th century the country has been transformed from a predominantly rural nation into an urbanized one. However the attitude of Americans towards the city and urban life has been changing over the years. Main social issues of 20th century have been changing from combating poverty and racism in 1930s - 1940s through predominance of wealth and status and the emptiness of suburbia in 1950s - 1970s‚ culminating
Premium The Truman Show White people Black people
Project 1 Issue history and Origin Urban sprawl is a concept that creates zones called suburbs that spread beyond the outskirts of a city. Urban sprawl is characterized by a low-density auto-dependent development of once rural land and it transforms the land into suburbs and suburbs include various design features that make the suburbs car dependent. Urban sprawl belongs to a larger class of American development in general and urban sprawl has many parts including housing subdivisions‚ strip
Premium Suburb United States Urban sprawl
America has the greatest amount of knowledge at its fingertips that it has ever seen due to technological advances‚ and still many children and adolescents are illiterate. Even though a child from a suburb school and one from a inner city school graduate from grade school‚ the child from the suburb might be up to two years ahead of the other in reading‚ writing‚ and mathematics (1). The problems with associated with inner city schools‚ which are usually full of minority children living in poverty
Premium Education Private school Teacher
electronic media. New technologies have replaced the old. From an estimated workforce of 10‚000 people in 1986‚ the working population has increased to 21‚506 according to 2001 Census figures. A planned 26‚000 jobs will be based in the two suburbs by 2021. Telecommunications and entertainment companies that have moved into the precinct include Network 10‚ ABC‚ Foxtel‚ Australis‚ Galaxy TV‚ Star City Casino and radio stations Nova‚ 2SM and 2GB. Educational institutions include
Premium Sydney Urban decay Gentrification
to the job. Furthermore‚ location of the jobs is one major factor of out of work people in inner cities. Since 1960‚ many businesses moved away from the inner cities toward the suburbs where there were better dealings‚ and this caused the struggle for inner city residents to find jobs. Employment was available in suburbs‚ but most inner city residents did not own automobiles and could not afford public transportation to leave the city to get to their jobs. These changes in job locations cause much
Premium Racial segregation Racism African American
Maroubra and Kogarah are beautiful suburbs of Australia. Neither provinces are national capital nor commercial centres. However‚ each has prominent features. This report will compare and contrast the location‚ population‚ housing‚ sevices of these two provinces. Maroubra is a beach suburb nearby Sydney which is located 10 kilometers south-east of the central business dictrict while the residential suburb-Kogarah is slightly farther than Maroubra‚ about 14 kilometers. The
Premium Train City Suburb
Maroubra and Kogarah are beautiful suburbs of Australia. Neither provinces are national capital nor commercial centres. However‚ each has prominent features. This report will compare and contrast the location‚ population‚ housing‚ sevices of these two provinces. Maroubra is a beach suburb nearby Sydney which is located 10 kilometers south-east of the central business dictrict while the residential suburb-Kogarah is slightly farther than Maroubra‚ about 14 kilometers. The
Premium Train City Suburb