The terms urban sprawl and car dependent now accurately describe the lifestyle of most Americans and individuals around the globe. Urban sprawl is an urban layout where the location of homes‚ schools‚ shops‚ and places of work are widely separated. All of the vastly separated locations are connected by multilane highways. The highways alleviate the issue of distance and replace it with an issue of time (how quick a location can be reached). The city limits are also constantly extending into the countryside
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There are many factors that contributes to the youth in urban areas of the Unites States of America that can potentially limit their chances of achieving a healthy and successful life as an adult. Children who lives in urban areas are more likely to experience negative life events‚ and poverty; which is linked to behavioral and emotional problems that can affect a child school achievement. Children that are raised in urban areas are subject to experience neglect‚ physical abuse‚ and sexual abuse
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Mathematical Modeling of Urban Population Changes Background of Issue The growth of population is the issue that caused widespread concern in the world now. As the world’s top 1 populous country‚ China’s population problem becoming more prominent. Because of the base of large population‚ although China has implemented the one-child policy to practice family planning‚ population is still increasing greatly. This huge population pressure has brought a series of problems on China’s social‚ political
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have studied provided insight into the individual’s relationships to the urban landscape? The three texts; T.S Eliot’s The Preludes poem‚ Jennifer Strauss’ Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram poem and the short story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury‚ provide an insight into each individual’s relationship with the urban landscape through the underlying motif of urban alienation. The writers explore the alienating effect of city life as people are forced to suppress and hide their individual identity
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Urban Planning What solutions would you have proposed for a city if you were an urban planner? Many cities suffered overcrowding. This problem left a lot of consequences such as low health‚ high crime rates‚ and impoverished areas. For this reason‚ Garden City‚ Radiant City and City Beautiful were created to provide solutions which probably would arrange the population in certain areas and improve the life quality of people. These three ideas have been a great influence to urban planners for over
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Energy and Environment Group Project Problems of urban decay and solutions to HK The running down of the parts in a city which turns it become unsuitable for people to live in is called urban decay. Urban decay leads to the problems in economy (money)‚ society (people) and environment (our surroundings). There have several examples of urban decay. Slum housing‚ provides a poor living condition with overcrowding‚ share outside toilets‚ without hot water and
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heading “Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development” at City Campus‚ University of Technology Sydney‚ Australia. Urban agriculture is probably as old as our cities‚ but never received much attention from the aspect of planning and governance till now. Urban Agriculture‚ the “integration” of farming into the urban economic and ecological system and also embedded in and interaction with the urban ecosystem such linkages includes the use of urban residents as laborers‚ use of typical urban resources
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Gravity Hills: Urban Legend Urban Legends are stories‚ usually false or exaggerated‚ that are repeatedly told and embellished over time until they are believed to be true. Gravity Hills is known to be an urban legend and it is also surrounded by scary stories. It’s said that in various hills of California‚ if a car is parked on neutral it will somehow roll up the slope of the nearby hill. There have been stories due to this belief that children died in the hills as they helped push their school
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Urban morphology is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area‚ city‚ town or village by examining the patterns of its component parts and the process of its development. This can involve the analysis of physical structures at different scales as well as patterns of movement‚ land use‚ ownership or control and occupation. Typically‚ analysis of physical form
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The nineteenth century is marked with many advances‚ particularly in the realm of industrial growth. Great Britain was the first country to begin its industrialization process in the late eighteenth century where it has since grown steadily with the gradual introduction of new technologies. This industrial growth led to social and demographic changes that started to rapidly increase during the Second Industrial Revolution during the later years of the nineteenth century. With the large increase in
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