Chapter 13 Learning Guide – Urban Patterns Key Issue 4 – Why Do Suburbs Face Distinctive Challenges? Pgs. 424 – 434 Urban Expansion 1. What is annexation? Process of legally adding land area to a city. 2. What is required before an area can be annexed by a city? Majority of the residents in the affected area have to vote in favor of being annexed. 3. In the past‚ why did peripheral areas desire annexation? City offered better services such as water supply‚ sewage disposal‚ trash pickup‚ police
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There are two suburbs in Suydney‚ Autralia. One of them is Maroubra‚ and the other is Kogarah. When you compare them‚ they have some common things and some differences in general. This report will compare and contrast the location‚ transport‚ people and housing of these two suburbs. The locations of both suburbs are similar. Maroubra and Kogarah have same distances from city ( 10km and 14km ) respectively and they have a small differences with regard to the kind of suburb. While Maroubra
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density buildings dominate the area as well as in the nearby suburbs such as Pyrmont and Ultimo. Pyrmont-Ultimo is just 2 km west of the CBD (Central Business District) therefore attracting a large number of residents. Supporting this‚ the Bureau of Statistics show Pyrmont-Ultimo had 13‚850 residents per square kilometre in June 2012‚ therefore making Pyrmont-Ultimo the most densely populated suburb in Australia. Whereas the southern suburb of Engadine only has a population density of 1‚801 per square
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The authors look at three different Congressional districts to show how place is different in metropolitan American. Those places include "poor central-city in the South Bronx of New York"‚ "a district that spans the West Side of Cleveland and its suburbs"‚ and "a wealthy outer-ring suburban district west of Chicago" (Dreier‚ Mollenkopf‚ & Swanstrom 3). The first district explored by the authors is the South Bronx. This is one of the poorest and most Democratic congressional districts in the United
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suburban life or city life. Objectively speaking‚ it’s really hard to make a choice between living in suburbs and in cities. But for my part‚ I prefer living in suburbs to cities. The differences between living in cities and suburbs can be seen in three aspects. Firstly‚ as we all know‚ the most major difference between life in suburbs and in cities is the living environment. Life in suburbs is more peaceful‚ so it’s really good for people who would like to relax themselves well. Since there are
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attention and the trend began to spread to other cities across the nation. Also‚ in Seaside‚ Florida‚ Robert Davis turned an inherited 80 acres of undeveloped brush into a neighborly community and walkable distance houses - as opposed to post-war suburbs. With the help of a young Miami architect firm‚ he created different types of single-family‚ townhomes‚ and apartments. Branded as the new Urbanism‚ it continues to have a big impact on urban planning across the U.S. Lastly‚ Pearl‚ Portland -Oregon
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around the social‚ sexual‚ and political spheres that affect each of us in different ways. Facing each of these aspects‚ this journey is made by Karim Amir in Hanif Kureishi’s novel‚ The Buddha of Suburbia. A young mixed-race boy who lives in the suburbs of London in the 1970’s‚ Karim dreams of the city with hopes of happiness and prosperity. The working and lower-middle class society was associated with suburbia in the 1970’s and the higher-class individuals typically lived in the city. Karim’s journey
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This trend is even more prominent in the suburbs‚ for example‚ between 2000 and 2013‚ the poverty rate in cities grew 29 percent‚ and in the suburbs‚ it was a 66 percent increase. Florida claims that there are now more poor people living in the suburbs than in cities. The shift in poverty is creating a negative impact on society‚ for instance‚ murders in the suburbs have risen 17 percent between 2001 and 2010. This means for poor people stuck in the suburbs have fewer opportunities and lack the social
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Urban Sprawl‚ New Urbanism A new revolution of thought has wage a war against low-density suburban growth or sprawl. But is sprawl really a problem? And could the proposed solutions do more harm than good? Sprawl typically conjures up images of strip malls and mega stores‚ traffic congestion‚ long commutes‚ lost open space‚ pollution‚ crowded schools‚ higher taxes‚ and the demise of downtown shopping areas. Activists throughout the country are fighting proposals to build new retail stores proposed
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the last century. Situated on a peninsula to the west of Sydney’s CBD and Darling Harbour‚ the inner suburb is a manmade environment used for service and residential use. In the 19th and early 20th century‚ Pyrmont was an important port and industrial area‚ and sometimes called ‘Sydney’s backyard’. This area had a population of around 30‚000 people at the time‚ and was one of the most grown suburbs in Sydney. Such urban growth had brought increased employment opportunities and more community services
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