Urban legends have long been included in our culture as traditional stories that often provide a moral conclusion cultivated and spread either orally or written on paper. Many of these tales are often misunderstood as a false story‚ however these tales are derived from real life events‚ and are exaggerated and modified as time passes. Urban legends commonly reflect the fears of a society and often include warnings that prevent a certain action or else something unfortunate will happen to the person
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THE MANAGEMENT PLANNING FUNCTION Planning - is determining what needs to be done‚ when‚ by whom‚ how‚ and within what cost in order to achieve an objective. It is the work that a manager performs to predetermine a course of action. * Provides the means for achieving a purpose‚ makes the best use of resources‚ makes a manager’s work easier‚ encourages teamwork‚ and forms a base for control. It is based on assumptions‚ involves change
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characteristics on residential choice making: Implication to urban transit planning in Port Harcourt‚ Nigeria. SURV (DR) chima OGBA DR inah OKON Geoid & Envt’l Services Ltd Geography/Regional Planning #11 Owuchekwa Str‚ Rumuomasi‚ University of Calabar‚ Port Harcourt‚ Rivers State PMB 1115 Calabar‚ CRS. chimaogba@yahoo.com inah.okon@yahoo.com 2348039675438 2348034126049 Key words: Land use‚ residential choice making‚ urban transit‚ and traffic congestion. Abstract In
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1513 Urban Framework. 18/10/02 11:21 AM Page 6 September 2002 UPPER ESPLANADE/ST KILDA FORESHORE UDF. COURTESY OF 4D FORM PTY LTD UR BAN DE S I GN FRAMEWORK S This Practice Note is a guide to the preparation and use of Urban Design Frameworks. Frameworks are strategic planning tools that set out an integrated design vision for the desired future development of urban places. They translate the broad aims of Municipal Strategic Statements (MSS) and planning schemes to practical urban
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PLANNING Thinking and looking ahead Process of establishing objectives and appropriate courses of action before taking action Why plan? To be: a. EFFECTIVE – being able to realize the objectives - “doing the right thing” b. EFFICIENT – being able to spend the least amount of resources in realizing the objective - “doing things right” TYPES OF PLANS: 1. Strategic Plan - focused on the entire organization - top management formulates the objectives
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Environment Programme (UNEP) states that ‘By 2007‚ one-half of the world’s population will live in urban areas compared to little more than one-third in 1972‚ and the period 1950 to 2050 will see a shift from a 65 per cent rural population to 65 per cent urban (United Nations Population Division 2001a). By 2002‚ some 70 per cent of the world’s urban population will be living in Africa‚ Asia or Latin America (UNCHS
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Iran. J. Environ. Health. Sci. Eng.‚ 2010‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1‚ pp. 43-52 URBAN SPRAWL AND CLIMATIC CHANGES IN TEHRAN *1Gh. R. Roshan‚ 2S. Zanganeh Shahraki‚ 3D. Sauri‚ 4R. Borna 1 Faculty of Geography‚ University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran Geography and Urban Planning Department‚ University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran 3 Department of Geography‚ Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona‚ Bellaterra‚ Spain 4 Islamic Azad University‚ Branch of Ahvaz‚ Ahvaz‚ Iran 2 Downloaded from http://journals.tums.ac.ir/ on
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Many urban centers have been known to be places where diverse styles of structural development are put in place through individual differences‚ desires and expression of wealth which over the time have brought about the use of series of finished construction materials. The constant increase in the rate of urban development‚ the use of materials and some of the construction style; have their contributing impact on the environment. These impacts of “growth in urban areas affects urban climate in several
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in which policy analysts are put into situations where they must make professional and ethical decisions based on their respective situations. In the Metroville Urban renewal scenario‚ policy analyst Henry is tasked to do an evaluation of the urban development project that has been in progress for ten years. The Metroville City Planning Department has sponsored the project and has also received funding from the federal government. Henry has discovered that although the project was supposed to benefit
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10 URBAN ENVIRONMENT Suneel Pandey‚ Shaleen Singhal‚ Pragya Jaswal‚ and Manraj Guliani Great cities are planned and grow without any regard for the fact that they are parasites on the countryside‚ which must somehow supply food‚ water‚ air‚ and degrade huge quantities of wastes. —Eugene Odum Six to seven million people are added annually to urban India. At the beginning of this millennium‚ 285 million Indians lived in its nearly 4400 towns and cities (Census 2001)
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