ARTICLE IN PRESS Habitat International 31 (2007) 291–302 www.elsevier.com/locate/habitatint Sustainable urban development? Low-cost housing challenges in South Africa Allison Goebelà Environmental Studies and Women’s Studies‚ Queen’s University‚ Kingston‚ Ont.‚ Canada K7L 3N6 Abstract Low-cost housing provision has been a major focus of government in post-apartheid urban South Africa. While successes can be noted‚ there is growing concern regarding the social and environmental sustainability of
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written‚ in which the theme of disease‚ decay and poison is embedded deep within the well-known plot of the play. Such theme is developed through the actions‚ dialogues and figurative language of the characters. These morbid images that are incorporated not only help the audience in grasping Hamlets true emotion‚ but also play a significant role in characterization‚ plot development and metaphorical message of the play. Ideas about death and physical decay constantly recur in much of the imagery
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How have three of the texts you have studied provided insight into the individual’s relationships to the urban landscape? The three texts; T.S Eliot’s The Preludes poem‚ Jennifer Strauss’ Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram poem and the short story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury‚ provide an insight into each individual’s relationship with the urban landscape through the underlying motif of urban alienation. The writers explore the alienating effect of city life as people are forced to suppress and
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Year 12 Urban Dynamics-Extended Response: Pyrmont Ultimo Research and Fieldwork Pyrmont-Ultimo is one of the fastest growing suburbs in Sydney. Over the past century it has demonstrated changes as a result of urban decay and renewal‚ urban consolidation and most recently spatial exclusion. These urban dynamics are dominant in Pyrmont Ultimo and have contributed to the changing morphology of that area. Pyrmont-Ultimo has undergone distinctive changes between the 18th century and 21st century
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Inner-City Park Redevelopment MGMT404 Project Management DeVry University‚ Alhambra October 25‚ 2013 Executive Summary Over several years‚ inner city parks have been run down‚ and there has been little to no improvement for them. These parks are outdated‚ and it not only affects the city‚ but more importantly has a bigger impact on the children of these cities. They are unable to play‚ and use the park to the fullest‚ because of its lack of resources. These parks
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traffic density‚ more pollution‚ increasing energy consumption‚ less natural habitats‚ sinking water resources and land shortage for housing. These are some of the problems we‚ as a society‚ have nowadays. By 2050 66% of the world’s population will be urban (Powell‚ 2016). A strategic approach will be required to achieve a sustainable city to ensure that it functions efficiently as a whole. So there is a big question for us as planners: How will the quality of life be conserved in future cities? This
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mare culturale urbano Title / Subtitle Premise (premessa) An urban project means taking the geography of a given city‚ with its demands and suggestions‚ as a starting point and introducing‚ with the architecture‚ some elements of the language to give form to the site. (Ignasi de Solà-Morales) Presupposition (presupposto) Post-industrial cities have seen an increase of derelict urban spaces‚ built-up structures and buildings became obsoletes once its original functions turned into either unimportant
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new era The Aura condo‚ a soaring 78 storeys of urban magnificence‚ is in its final stages of construction. Located at Yonge and Gerrard‚ the mixed-use building will play host to a populous community‚ economically rejuvenate the Yonge and college strip‚ and contribute to the urban renaissance of Yonge street. Aura is an excellent example of how urban intensification for the city will support economic development and alleviate the pressures of urban sprawl. The building consists of three stories of
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reaction time if you had reduced the hydrochloric acid by half? Explain why. 4. What should you have learned about reaction rates? 1. The kind of graph that resulted when I plotted the mL of thiosulfate against the time in seconds was an exponential decay. 2. The graph tells us that the rate of reaction increases when there is more thiosulfate as the reaction took more time when there was less thiosulfate. This is shown on the graph by the increasing volume of thiosulfate corresponded to a smaller
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control‚ many of whose residents were “jackatars‚” a derogatory term once used widely in Newfoundland for persons of French-Mi’kmaq descent (métis). The community of Crow Gulch disappeared in 1968 following nearly two decades of discussion over urban renewal in Corner Brook. The end result was a form of benign coercion: the expropriation of property with some financial compensation‚ the physical destruction of their homes‚ and the relocation and resettlement of residents unable to find affordable
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