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    Indian culture is rich and diverse. People give respect to their traditional values and hence its greatness was recognized all over the world. Lifestyle of people living in Village‚ town and city levels differs a lot. People in villages majorly depend on agriculture and their main source of income is cultivation. Their regular life cycle in terms of earning money is that cultivating two to three crops a year‚ transporting the cultivated food or other products to the nearby towns‚ selling the cultivated

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    The poem The City Planners is a poem written by Margaret Atwood. It starts off about the poet driving around the streets and describing what she sees‚ some things are praised‚ but there is also a list of complaints. Then the poet describes the City Planners‚ which I think they are builders or architects and their so-called constructive work. In the view of the poet it seems that they are building very tidy and smart buildings but they are actually destroying nature and the environment. The first

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    grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.” The controversy about big cities being better than small towns or vice versa to grow up in has been around for the longest time now. I strongly believe that small towns are a much better environment for a child to grow up in than that of a big city. Ask any person that grew up within a small town they probably knew everyone in their community perhaps even personally. If you knew the

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    though a child from a suburb school and one from a inner city school graduate from grade school‚ the child from the suburb might be up to two years ahead of the other in reading‚ writing‚ and mathematics (1). The problems with associated with inner city schools‚ which are usually full of minority children living in poverty‚ can only be solved with outside help. Poorer residential areas in America are more likely to be located in the inner cities across the nation. Since most of the funding for schools

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    Glossary - The City of Rio de Janeiro The state capital of Rio de Janeiro‚ so often sung in prose and verse‚ famous worldwide for its natural beauty and friendly people—carioca—is also the nation’s main cultural center and one of the largest financial hubs in the country. Its economy is based especially on tertiary and financial sectors‚ foreign trade‚ media‚ and tourism. Furthermore‚ the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro shelters the Brazilian headquarters of major international companies such

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    Living In The Country Vs. Living In A Big City Living in the country or in a rural are is much better all the way around than living in a big city. According to Suzanne McLaren’s and Lisa M. Hope’s article "Rural- Urban Differences In Reasons For Living" ‚ residents living in regional cities and urban areas reported fewer reasons to stay alive than those in regional towns and rural areas. People in urban environments reported less survival and coping beliefs when faced with a

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    Right to the City Don Mitchell‚ author of The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space proposed that social exclusion is the leftover product to social activism and changes in public space law. He argued that having rights to access urban public space is important‚ as increase of security in public spaces has limited rights‚ especially for homeless people. In drawing his theory of social justice and public space from Raymond Williams who reflect on Matthew Arnold and the

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    The Big City Growing up in the big city offers a person great opportunities educationally‚ socially‚ and helps prepare them for their furute better then small rural towns do. Children in big cities get much better educations and are offered more AP courses to further their college education before they even begin college. Big cities also offer childrent the social aspects of life needed for a child to feel happy. They make more friends in a bigger city and bigger school‚ they have many more

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    Mitigation strategies: road to sustainable cities? Introduction Society is still growing and rapidly aging‚ one person wants mobility‚ the other wants a green park in front of his house. More people‚ means more 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

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    prefer to live in the city. In my opinion‚ I would rather to live in the city because of facilities‚ quality of life‚ and opportunities there. First‚ there are many advantages of facilities like the health care system‚ education institutions‚ and variety of entertainment. For example‚ there are clubs and restaurants in the city where people can enjoy their nights with family and friends. The city had many more hospitals and education systems than in the country. Second‚ in the city‚ the quality of life

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