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    Essay on city life The migration from the countryside to city areas is merely a new phenomenon. This is a historic transformation on a global scale that consists of village culture being rapidly replaced by urban culture. Nowadays more than half of the world’s population lives in the cities. The majority of the people migrate of the better employment opportunities‚ the medical and educational facilities but there are also other reasons like the fun attractions of city life. City life is far

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    The City in Literature

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    encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way‚ Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe‚ Charles Dickens‚ Emile Zola‚ Bram Stoker‚ Rider Haggard‚ Joseph Conrad‚ James Joyce‚ Theodore Dreiser‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and Raymond Chandler. The European city is read against the decline of feudalism and the rise of empire and totalitarianism; the American city against the phenomenon of the

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    City of Memories I feel the moment coming‚ the feeling of a cool breeze just like the same feeling I get when I chew a minty fresh gum. My heart senses each breeze of wind as it strikes my face and soon my heart is addicted to this feeling of coolness. The trees look alive as if they are dancing and the sun is shining bright‚ but not to the point where it’s burning hot. As I walk down the city streets‚ the sight of sky towers and magnificent buildings appear before my sight. The people that are

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    | Do We Live in a Sustainable Society? | MMCC Winter 2012SCI 200George Gilmore | | Jonathan Norman | 2/24/2012 | | There are many ways to define sustainability and to answer the question of whether we live in a sustainable society you should first define the question. The simplest definition of what a sustainable society is still very complex. A society that can persist over generations‚ one that is farseeing enough‚ flexible enough‚ and wise enough not to undermine either its

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    Urbanization is a socio-economic process by which an increasing proportion of the population of an area becomes concentrated into the towns and cities. The term is also defined as the level of population concentration in urban areas. The process of urbanization increases both the number and size of towns and cities. Urbanization is the most significant phenomenon of the 20th century which has almost affected all aspects of the national life in India. Being the second most populous country in the

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    LOVELY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTRE AND DESIGN COURSE CODE: ARC439 COURSE TITLE: DISSERTATION Name of student: Damneek Kaur Registration Number: 10902563 Roll Number: RA1902A03 Section Number: A1902 Academic Year: 2012-13 Name and Signature of faculty advisor / mentor: Jyoti Jalan Name and Signature of Thesis Coordinator: Ar. Manish Singh. Name and Signature of HOD: Ar.Narinderjit Kaur Name and Signature of DOD: Dr. Rupinder Singh Name and Signature of HOS: Dr. Rupinder

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    Big City

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    Life in a big city is different from life of a village or a small town. The hustle and bustle which is found in the cities is not in the small places. Once I had an experience of a life in a big city. It was a strange experience. I went to Karachi to spend my summer holidays with my uncle. He lives in Sadar Bazar. A very busy and crowded area of Karachi. I was surprised to see such frenzied activities of people throughout the day. As I live in a village near Narowal I had no idea that life would

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    Sustainable Development for the Benefit of Human Welfare In recent years‚ with the development of society and economy‚ some of the non-renewable resources‚ such as coal‚ oil‚ natural gas‚ gradually consumed by human beings. Nearly since 1980s‚ people have realized the severity of the problem and the discussions about sustainable development have become the hit topic among public‚ and up till now‚ it is also a controversial problem. According to the view of environmental and economic experts

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    City and Country

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    LIVING IN THE COUNTRY IS BETTER THAN LIVING IN THE CITY What should people consider when deciding where to live? There are many places in the city or out in the country in which there are great differences and similarities. Things to consider when deciding the area to live in are the environment‚ the population and the employment opportunities. The country and the city have environments that are different. The country consists of the surroundings of nature. There are tall leafy green trees; grassy

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    Are Cities Dying?

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    Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 12‚ Number 2—Spring 1998—Pages 139-160 Are Cities Dying? Edward L. Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers‚ such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler‚ have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired

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