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    spread-out patterns of employment‚ where the majority of jobs in a given metropolitan area are located outside of the main city’s Central Business District (CBD)‚ and increasingly in the suburban periphery. It is often the result of urban disinvestment‚ the geographic freedom of employment location allowed by predominantly car-dependent commuting patterns of many American suburbs‚ and many companies’ desire to locate in low-density areas that are often more affordable and offer potential for expansion.

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    Rural and Remote

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    living in rural and remote areas have distinctive health concerns that relate directly to their living conditions‚ social isolation and distance from health services. The health and wellbeing of populations living in rural and isolated areas is generally poorer than those living in capital cities and other urban areas. Epidemiology has shown the further a person lives from a metropolitan area‚ the greater the risk of mortality and illness - those living in rural and remote areas also have the concern

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    Recruitment Case

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    A report on a recruitment case “Hotel Tall Pines” Submitted by: Sarada Maharjan Submitted To: Sunil Ojha Saugat Raj Maskey Merina Shrestha Neegma Shrestha Bikrant Shrestha MBA 3rd Trimester‚ 2010 Summary Hotel Tall Pines is opening on May 1 under the management of Mr. Gordon McGregor who had been involved in the planning of the hotel for about two years. Corporate management had selected the city of Riverton (pop. 95000) located in suburbs of Roosevelt City‚

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    increasingly more in an urban area. • The density of human-established structures is high in the case of an urban area. • Cities and towns constitute urban areas. • It is interesting to note that natural resources and artificial resources develop rapidly in urban areas or in other words it can be said that the areas characterized by natural growth of resources flourish into urban areas. Urban areas are subjected to a process called urbanization. Vegetation and fauna available in the areas are made full use of

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    Ensure a Safe Workplace

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    distributor located at the rear of a large metropolitan shopping precinct. ABC Chemicals purchase large quantities of cleaning chemicals. These are delivered in 205 liter drums and include solvents‚ acids and other corrosives‚ and detergents. These products are decanted by ABC chemical’s staff into retail size containers (not exceeding 30 liters/kilograms) ‚ re-labelled and shipped in company-badged delivery vehicles to retail outlets throughout the metropolitan area. There is‚ within 25 meters of ABC

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    State PMB 1115 Calabar‚ CRS. chimaogba@yahoo.com inah.okon@yahoo.com 2348039675438 2348034126049 Key words: Land use‚ residential choice making‚ urban transit‚ and traffic congestion. Abstract In current practice‚ very few Metropolitan Planning Agencies attempt to capture the effects of transportation system changes on land use‚ and the consequent feedback effects on transportation system performance‚ despite substantial evidence that these effects may be significant. This

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    Human Settlement

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    The term ’urban’‚ as opposed to rural‚ is related to towns or cities. Urban settlement is a large nucleated settlement in which the majority of the employed inhabitants are engaged in non-agricul­tural activities. Urban areas may be defined by national governments according to different criteria; for example‚ size‚ population density‚ occupation of the people‚ and type of local government. This division between urban and rural is arbitrary and that is why today most of scholars use the term ’rural-

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    Urban Governance

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    planning has to take into consideration a wide range of options and choices like adequate roads‚ parking lots‚ alternate system of transportation‚ and mass transit facilities. The aim should be to reduce total vehicle miles driven in congested areas thus reducing pollution and emission of green house gases. • Effective

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    Urban Heat Island

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    Introduction Urban Heat Island – UHI is one of the important phenomenons of meteorology. It refers to a metropolitan area that becomes significantly warmer as compared with the areas surrounding it. Urban heat island is a well-documented and widely accepted outcome of the human modifications to the environment. The temperature of the metropolitan area differs from those surrounding areas mostly at night time‚ especially in summer‚ and during the dry clear‚ and calm weather when there is flow

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    three and four of chapter thirteen Key three: Why Are Urban Areas Expanding? Urban expansion has been mainly focused on suburbs that surround older cities. Suburban Expansion Cities use to expand by adding peripheral land as they grew. A city now is a legally incorporated entity that encompasses the older portion of the urban area. THE PERIPHERAL MODEL North Americans follow the peripheral model where it is implicated that an urban area includes the city and built-up suburbs. DEFINING URBAN SETTLEMENTS

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