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    Countryside V.S City Life

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    Country Life v.s City Life Have you ever thought about your birth place? Do you make your own decision where to live? I believe every person‚ in a certain time‚ think about the place they should live: countryside or city? To make the best choice‚ we must look at three big differences between countryside and city: the environment‚ education‚ entertainment. First of all‚ the countryside has a quiet and peaceful environment. Since most people living in the countryside make their living

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    The fact that the world’s cities are getting more and more crowded is well-known. Cities such as Tokyo‚ Sao Paolo‚ Bombay and Shanghai are now considered ‘mega-cities’‚ because of their enormous size and huge populations. There are two main reasons why these and other cities are becoming so crowded; one economic‚ the other socio-cultural. First‚ the primary cause of cities becoming so crowded is economic. As a country develops‚ its cities become the engines of development‚ thus jobs

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    Country vs. City Living

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    Country vs. City living Today we make important decisions when deciding where to live. This is not a decision that is always easy to make. There are many things that you need to take into consideration. Like do you want your neighbors to be close‚ do you like to listen to the noise and traffic of the city? Don’t forget to consider your job and drive time‚ and pets if you have or want them. For many people this is one of the many important decisions they will have to make. Do you live in

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    What Makes a Good City?

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    Ideal City What makes a good city ? There are far to many to enumerate but here are a few: A secure water supply and sanitation system. A solid economy. A transportation network on every level. A strong tax base. Good to great schools. Better then Good police protection. Affordable housing‚ A built in arts and culture environment‚ Affordable medical‚ social services‚ sanitation and fire protection. A community spirit‚ a Love Thy Neighbor attitude. The ideal city build housing‚ construct

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    A Beautiful City

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    Butuan city was the site of the first formal hoisting of the Philippine flag in Mindanao. And it was the home of the balanghais or butuan baots‚ famous pre-historic native boats in the southeast asia. Butuan is situated in the northwestern part of the carag region. It is the seat of government of the region and serves as its trading center as well. The city’s strategic location makes it a natural gateway to the different prime destinations in the region. Agusan provinces provided the people

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    I am originally from Sioux City‚ Iowa which is known as “Little Chicago”. Sioux city is a small city with a population of 82‚459. Sioux city is the fourth largest city in Iowa and is known for having a large volume of cornfields. I have lived in Sioux City my whole entire life and it is a boring city. There isn’t much someone could do. Downtown is small and we don’t have a lot of varieties of restaurants to choose from. Then are mall only has one floor and has a few stores to shop from and the only

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    society instead of being deemed a social outcast for being a gay man and goes on to write about people who are seeking transcendent reality. Allen Ginsberg also wrote a poem about the city of Paterson. The poem speaks about the nature of modern life and the internal harassments that individuals face everyday because they live in an era of urbanization. He makes sure to mention that people are becoming so blinded by money and power. The setting of the poem takes place in the very beginning of globalization

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    With cities worldwide facing daunting environmental challenges on a global scale‚ a multidisciplinary team at Arup (an independent firm of designers‚ planners‚ engineers‚ consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services) seeks to create a model for how cities can develop carbon neutrally called Dongtan Eco-City. Dongtan is a plan for a new eco-city on the island of Chongming in Shanghai‚ China. The name of the city literally translates as "East Beach". Dongtan

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    Urban Morphology of Dhaka City: Spatial Dynamics of Growing City and the Urban Core Prof. Dr. Farida Nilufar Department of Architecture‚ Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Email: faridanilufar@yahoo.com [Paper presented on the International Seminar on The History‚ Heritage and Urban Issues of Capital Dhaka‚ on the occasion of the Celebration of 400 years of the Capital Dhaka‚ Organized by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh‚ 17-19 February 2010. Accepted for Publication

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    Mexico City Slums Essay

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    slum is “characterized by overcrowding‚ poor or informal housing‚ inadequate access to safe water and sanitation‚ and insecurity of tenure.” (Davis 2007:23) There is has been a rapid growth of urban cities over the last couple of years and people are migrating out of rural areas and into these cities sometimes bring poverty along with them creating urban slums. There are many slums on earth and most of them are located in the Third World countries although there are a select few in the United States

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