Econ 350 Urban/Regional Economics Short Essay Review of a Journal Article Journal of Urban Economics‚ (56) 2004 1-24 Geography and the Internet: Is the Internet a substitute or a complement for cities? Todd Sinai and Joel Waldfogel 9th of May 2005 Abstract This paper has provided with an interesting point to begin analysis. Communications technology has always been of interest to the urban economist. The internet has new significance as a method of commerce and looks set to
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There are many factors that contributes to the youth in urban areas of the Unites States of America that can potentially limit their chances of achieving a healthy and successful life as an adult. Children who lives in urban areas are more likely to experience negative life events‚ and poverty; which is linked to behavioral and emotional problems that can affect a child school achievement. Children that are raised in urban areas are subject to experience neglect‚ physical abuse‚ and sexual abuse
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Urban Slums: Reason for Concern? The definition of a slum varies from one form to another depending on the background or country from which an individual comes from. Someone from a rich country may define slums as old run-down buildings‚ whereas someone from a poor country will define slums as un-serviced haphazard constructions. The universal definition of a slum as found in the dictionary is said to be a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and filth. Slums are seen
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formation of huge megapolitan areas and surrounding peri-urban environs. In China‚ a 40 million urban area is planned.The effects of cities on people are not well-understood. Cities require huge amounts of energy‚ resulting in large quantities of waste products‚ causing unsustainable environments. Cities are sources of air‚ water and soil pollution. Light and noise pollution are now known to adversely affect urban people. The role of urban heat islands and air pollution‚ PM2.5 and ozone‚ on human
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URBAN DESIGN: ORNAMENT AND DECORATION i This Page Intentionally Left Blank URBAN DESIGN: ORNAMENT AND DECORATION Second Edition Cliff Moughtin‚Taner Oc and Steven Tiesdell OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Architectural Press An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House‚ Jordan Hill‚ Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue‚ Woburn‚ MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group First
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UN-HABITAT - WORKING GROUP A Bottom of the Pyramid Approaches for Urban Sustainability Background Paper – Draft 0 At the Fourth Session of the World Urban Forum held in Nanjing in November 2008‚ the private sector decided to organise two working groups which would be based on the themes of Urban Governance and Bottom of the Pyramid Approaches for Urban Sustainability. Through their work‚ the groups will also contribute to the preparation of Core Business Principles for Sustainable Urbanization
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in Sustainable Urban Systems and the development of sustainable cities and urban contexts is one of the most important challenges of humans’ future. Within the field of IE a specific branch of research is dedicated to Urban Industrial Ecology (UIE) [57]‚ but it is very difficult to exactly determine the birth of the interest in urban research by the IE scholars: Huang et al. [58] argue that a first idea of “urban symbiosis” was already present in Jacob 1961‚ while the term “urban metabolism” was
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Y Generation Manners In “The Decline of Manners‚” Martin states that “younger people in today’s society are ruder than people were twenty or thirty years ago.” Martin also goes on to reveal that young people are “slovenly‚ less communicative‚ and generally impolite to one another.” Martin argues that increasing informality of dress‚ lack of communication and mean-spiritedness all contribute to this behavior. She targets certain age groups communicating that “this is obvious to anyone over the
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EFFECTS OF URBAN CRIME ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Technical Paper by: Ms. Adit Padhi (aditipadhi@gmail.com) “Greater concern about terrorism places new opportunities before the design community. If protection is considered from the outset‚ design can make buildings and people safer.”1 Introduction Violent crime was the issue of the nineties‚ while terrorism has become the talk at the onset of 21st century. Understanding crime prevention design is therefore an invaluable tool in organization and
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developments featuring a pedestrian friendly environment and good public-transit accessibility. Meaning that there is a concentration of activity centred around easy access to the transit network. The strategy of the multiple centres concentrates growth where it is most easily accessible in terms of both transit and infrastructure‚ the strategy forms a hierarchy of nodes from the major centres‚ connections with the railway network‚ and plazas formed along the arterial routes‚ grouped with developments
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