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    Urban Anthropology

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    fieldwork in Jakarta‚ Indonesia. He depicts this culture as a “multi-ethnic‚ multi-cultural landscape [that] promotes a constant sense of dislocation-for both resident and visitor alike”(75). There are noticeable contrasts between the class systems in this city‚ as skyscrapers overshadow the decrepit and numerous tin-roof shanties. Leggette started his ethnography when he got hired as a “consultant” for a transnational corporate office. According to him‚ “The ethics of ethnography are deeply enmeshed in an

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    Urban Fieldwork

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    why some urban areas are in need of rebranding (15 marks) Primary fieldwork consists of things like a questionnaire‚ graffiti survey‚ Environmental impact assessment‚ pedestrian and car counts etc. Secondary research is data that is collected from a variety of sources for example a census‚ the government‚ national statistics‚ city council etc. In many cities in the UK such as Birmingham and Margate that are in the nature of industrial decline‚ this has led to much rebranding of the city or CBD

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    Explain why Pope Urban II called for a Crusade in Clermont 1095. One reason‚ or trigger for Pope Urban calling the crusade would have been Alexius’ request for his help. Alexius asked for Pope Urban’s aid in helping him to fight the Turks; this is because they were closing in and starting to invade Constantinople‚ which was the main frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Emperor Alexius felt threatened by the Turks‚ and knew that Pope Urban in him being the head of the Church (the

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    affects such large sectors as communications‚ finance and retail trade (altogether‚ about 30 per cent of GDP). It holds promise in areas such as education‚ health and government (about 20 per cent of GDP). The largest effects may be associated not with many of the impacts that command the most attention (e.g. customized products‚ the elimination of middlemen) but with less visible‚ but potentially more pervasive‚ effects on routine business activities (e.g. ordering office supplies‚ paying bills‚ and

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    urban crime

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    Bading Table of Content 1. Introduction 3 2. Familiarization with an issue of urban crime: the mafia 4 3. Cinematic representation of a mafia life I 6 3.2 “It ’s business‚ not personal.” 7 4. Cinematic representation of mafia life II 8 4.1 Gomorrah analysis 8 5. Godfather and Gomorrah: a comparison 9 6. Conclusion 10 7. Bibliography 11 “Crime is largely an urban phenomenon‚ but the specifically urban and area dimensions of the social processes that are connected with crime have

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    to be an issue after the war. In the hopes of alarming the Russians‚ they bombed Dresden. Internal RAF documents suggest that one reason for the bombing of Dresden was to “…show the Russians what bomber technology can do.” With the “…Russian army threatening the heart of Saxony…” they thought this plan was necessary‚ but this was not a good enough reason to destroy a city. The allies should not have tried to plan their

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    Urban Nodes

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    combat the adverse financial‚ quality-of-life‚ and environmental consequences of urban sprawl. These form employment centers‚ shopping centers‚ entertainment centers‚ or multi-function activity centers. Where living‚ working‚ and entertainment activities come together. The major nodes in the plan are the islands‚ destinations in their own right‚ these have nodes within them for example the island centre of Ravi City in phase 1 has the Central Business District‚ Central Park and Commercial District

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    What Makes Poor Countries Poor? In the past century‚ the world has seen countless scientific and technological advancements that have greatly improved the human condition. Thanks to these developments in communications‚ transportation‚ medicine and agriculture‚ the wealth of developed nations has increased at phenomenal rates. Unfortunately‚ not all countries have experienced these benefits. Many nations still have a per capita GDP of $1000 or less. These countries continue to be poor because

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    than tripled‚ with an additional 300 notifications (WTO 2009). The African Continent has not escaped the proliferation of regional trade agreements in the existing global trade regime. The formation of RTAs in Africa has mainly been championed by what are commonly known as Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as the continent moves towards the formation of the African Economic Community (AEC) that was established by the Abuja Treaty of 1991. Almost all the RECs have RTAs in the form of free trade

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    in developing countries? Globalisation is an inevitable phenomenon in human history that is been bringing the world closer through the exchange of goods and products‚ information‚ knowledge and culture. Globalisation has more or less influence on every country in the world. There are a lot of disputes about whether there is a more positive or more negative influence of globalization on the developing countries. According to The Economist (2001‚ 10)‚ people who live in developing countries “are

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