Increasing urban sprawl and motorization have become leading causes of environmental and social problems in recent years throughout the world‚ particularly in cities of developing countries. Urban sprawl is the disorderly expansion of urban areas‚ especially resulting from real estate development on the out skirts of a city. Motorization‚ which is linked to urban sprawl‚ can be defined as the increasing use of motor vehicles. Although motor vehicles offer some benefits such as convenience‚ their
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Urban legends have been the highlight of the unknown. A way for people to make sense of things they do not know. Urban legends usually do have some true story basis but over time these stories get fabricated. Over time we are introduced to these stories and really wonder what part of these stories are real and is fabrication. So I have decided to expand and really look into the origins of a few urban legends that are lesser known. We will explore the legends of the vanishing hitchhiker‚ Walt Disney
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people away from the predicaments at hand‚ which is to push the homeless‚ working- and lower class away using violent tactics to make room for the young‚ affluent whites. People think that by having the middle- and upper-middle class in these poor urban communities will “civilize” the people in the community. Yet when in reality‚ they are doing more harm than good. The homeless now have nowhere to stay or sleep. The community can’t use their park how they want to. And instead of putting funds into
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Brazil‚ 1960’s‚ City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970’s: Li’l Zé has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bené is the only one to keep him on the good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years‚ and he wants no part of it. Yet he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980’s: Things
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Living in Poverty in Houston Texas The number of Houston-area resident living in very poor neighborhood almost doubled over the past decades which researchers say increase their risks for unemployment‚health problem and crime. Some of the increase came as raising unemployment pushed people already living in those neighborhood below the poverty level. Also the lack of affordable housing more affluent neighborhood likely contributed to the increased concentration of the poor‚as well. Many of those
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PIDE Working Papers 2008:46 On Measuring the Complexity of Urban Living Lubna Hasan Pakistan Institute of Development Economics‚ Islamabad PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ISLAMABAD 2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise—without prior permission of the author(s) and or the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
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As part of the summer reading assignment this year‚ I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book‚ he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor‚ rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the purpose of telling the stories of the children who lived in these parts of the city. He dedicated his work to those children and it was his goal to inform readers that slums were in fact in existence and
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Brett Potter HST 104 Section 002 Yixin Chen 27 November 2012 The Poverty of Annawadi as seen in Behind the Beautiful Forevers The city of Mumbai has seen much growth in the past years. A string of elegant hotels have been set up for travelers and high-class business men. An ever growing‚ top of the line airport has been built for those coming in and out of the country. From the outside‚ Mumbai seems to have taken a liking to being internationally integrated with the rest of world‚ otherwise
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Using an example you have studied‚ describe and explain the causes and consequences of inner city decline. (10) One cause of inner city decline in Park Hill in Sheffield was the back to back slum houses that were present there in the 1800s. Diseases such as cholera were easily spread due to such dense housing. The housing was closely packed and was unsanitary which consequently lead to disease and poor quality of life for people; thus demonstrating inner city decline.. A consequence of the unsanitary
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Building Castles in Air: Housing Scheme for Bombay’s Slum-Dwellers Author(s): Gurbir Singh and P. K. Das Source: Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol. 30‚ No. 40 (Oct. 7‚ 1995)‚ pp. 2477-2481 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4403298 Accessed: 08-04-2015 15:55 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service
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