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    was created to benefit (most) WWII veterans‚ and consumerism played many effects on society. By 1920‚ over fifty-four million American’s were living in cities. This changed‚ however‚ after the Second World War. Suburbanization took the place of urbanization and Americans were fleeting to the suburbs. By 1960‚ American suburbs held more of the population than cities‚ small towns‚ and the countryside

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    Industrialization and Urbanization During the second half of the nineteenth century the United States went through an urban revolution. This urban revolution and the things that were happening were unseen by the world until this point. Factories‚ mines‚ and mills sprouted all across the country‚ and thus cities began to grow up around them. In 1889 the nineteenth century was declared "not just the age of cities‚ but the age of great cities." The economy was booming and there were plenty of jobs

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    that the process by which technology is substituted for manual labor as the basis of production and Craig Calhoun mention the meaning of urbanization that the process whereby large numbers of people leave the countryside and small towns to settle in cities and surrounding metropolitan areas. The relationship between industrialization and urbanization is people come to find the better life in the city. Craig Calhoun mention the meaning of city is a relative large‚ densely populated‚ and

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    Başak Erel 108611006 Berke Baş Multiply-city; Representations of Urban Experience Slums During the Urbanization Process of Turkey The word ‘slum’ was firstly mentioned by a writer called James Hardy Vaux‚ in his book ‘Vocabulary of the Flash Language’ which was published in 1812[1]. At those times ‘slum’ was also a synonym of illegal commerce. Today‚ ‘slum’ is used to describe the residential areas of a huge amount of people of the world. According to the UN-Habitat report released in October

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    Urbanization Before the middle of the 19th century it was quite fashionable to live in the big city. People of the Upper class‚ for instance; lawyers‚ merchants‚ and manufacturers built lavish townhouses in the center of the city within walking distance of their various jobs. Middle class workers tended to live further away from the center of the city in places such as suburbs. Whereas the lower class workers lived in the back alleys and courtyards of the central city. Because of the need to be

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    MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION The ministry‚ which had served under the name of The Ministry of Public Works and Settlement between 1983-2011‚ restructured under the name of The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization by the Decree Law (DL) no. 648 dated 17.08.2011. Authorities of the Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas‚ which was closed by DL No. 648‚ were transferred to the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. The duties regarding natural protected areas‚ which were

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    American and Urbanization The Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th century offered many Americans the chance to enhance their way of living. Because of the revolution‚ job numbers are increased‚ technological innovations in transportation developed‚ and housing construction contributed why there has been migration to cities. Increase in the population of those who live in the cities is known as urbanization (Long‚ 2015). One significant example of this urbanization is demonstrated by the

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    Denielle Barcelona ANTHRO 102A December 10‚ 2010 Urbanization and State Formation in African Civilizations: When it comes to talking about the ancient African civilizations‚ both Africans and those who spent their lives studying Africa are aware of how complex and diverse the African precolonial societies really were. However‚ some still surmise that complex societies failed to develop there‚ and if there are some that did‚ they were merely secondary states.1 In the book African Civilizations:

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    there were approximately 363 cities with populations of 10‚000 or more and 17 of those cities had more than 10‚000 inhabitants. This boom in population was largely to due to the advancing agricultural techniques. Parallel to these advancements in urbanization‚ are the advancements in centralization. Before the Industrial Revolution‚ many products were limited to certain areas and regions due to specialized industries. After the Industrial Revolution‚ consumer production boomed due to many new changes

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    Urbanization in America Urbanization is described as an act or fact of urbanizing or taking on the characteristics of a city. It wasn’t until about thirty years after the civil war that America started seeing signs of urbanization. In the late nineteenth century‚ America started changing its lifestyle and started going from farming to city life. Cities started growing and more people started living in the cities. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th century gave people higher expectations

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