The automobile is one of the most important inventions in our countries history. It has totally affected the American way of life. Four main areas it affected are other transportation‚ roadways‚ rural life‚ and urban life. Automobiles affected other ways of transportation. Horse-drawn transportation was almost completely replaced. Trains and trolleys lost rides as cars became more affordable and popular. Roadways were then created. More than 400‚000 miles of new road connected people and places
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SLUM REHABILITATION IN MUMBAI. Ms. Purva Dewoolkar. K.R.V.I.A M Arch 1st year Urban Designing Prof. Manoj Parmar; Prof. Vikas Dilawari Seminar 31 October 2011 SLUM REHABILITATION IN MUMBAI. Contents 1. Abstract................................................................................................................................3 2. Methodology.........................................................
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close up acute details of the insects’ anatomy “winged‚ horned and spined”. The settings of both poems are very different or inconsistent. In “An Advancement of Learning” it is situated outside in an urban river landscape. It is portrayed as polluted with “dirty-keeled swans”. Overall it is an urban setting and a shabby environment‚ where it projects the negativity of the encounter. Whereas in “An August Midnight” it is inside and a welcoming scene inside a tranquil room where the insects are lured
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Başak Erel 108611006 Berke Baş Multiply-city; Representations of Urban Experience Slums During the Urbanization Process of Turkey The word ‘slum’ was firstly mentioned by a writer called James Hardy Vaux‚ in his book ‘Vocabulary of the Flash Language’ which was published in 1812[1]. At those times ‘slum’ was also a synonym of illegal commerce. Today‚ ‘slum’ is used to describe the residential areas of a huge amount of people of the world. According to the UN-Habitat report released in October
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like anyone else. However; given the current economically depressing conditions‚ law enforcement‚ city inspectors and other institutional overseers are obliged to be more diligent in minimizing problems that arise under these circumstances. Urban Retail Strategy Proper use of land based resources dictates that urbanism advocates mixed-use development which combines residential‚ commercial‚ cultural‚ and recreational
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Black Inner-City Poverty: William Julius Wilson‚ Films for the Humanities‚ Inc.‚ 1994 [30 minutes] 1. What has been the main cause of the rise of concentrated poverty in the urban ghetto since the 1970s according to Wilson? (4 points) Wilson argues that one of the main cause of the rise of concentrated poverty in the urban ghetto since the 1970s is the fact of segregation. In the 1970s the poor‚ middle class and upper class all lived in the same neighborhoods. This gave the poor more opportunities
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In Planet of Slums‚ Davis discusses the roots of slums in relation to urban poverty in the post-modern era as well as its social‚ political‚ economical and ecological consequences. This essay might ring a bell to many as a duplication of the famous UN-HABITAT’s report in 2003 on the challenge of slums; however in my opinion‚ what Davis is attempting to do here is an exploration to the roots of urban poverty on a global scale rather than within local state governance‚ and also with references to the
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of Planning Objective The objective of this course is to understand the broad trajectories of urban spatial planning globally and how they have shaped the discourse of planning Indian cities. Who is a planner? How has the role of the planner changed? What are the historical traditions of planning that seem to influence contemporary planning practice? What are the emerging paradigms in urban spatial planning? Through seminars‚ case studies‚ response papers and assignments‚ the students will
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the attempts to improve housing conditions for the poor in one named city in an emerging economy. (10) 1. P K Das Architect; Chairperson of the Mumbai Waterfronts Centre - His firm P K Das and Associates’ wide spectrum of work includes projects in urban planning and design‚ architecture‚ interiors and social and environmental sectors. His current planning and architectural works include townships‚ industries‚ a stadium‚ museum‚ public places of historical significance‚ Mumbai’s waterfronts‚ holiday
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Class Make-Up Assignment 10 April 2013 Due: Monday 15 April 2012 In lieu of (instead of) our second class on urban services‚ I would like for you to answer the following questions and submit them to me in hard copy in class on Monday 15 April. These are individual assignments – and not group work. Common or copied answers will result in a failing grade. Please read the following article from yesterday’s Daily Star entitled “Easy Illegally” by Morshed Ali Khan and Anisur Rahman: http://www
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