Short version Alice part Adaptivity of architecture T: City is something that changes and grows. Cities become inevitably dysfunctional and need maintenance‚ otherwise they will decade or die off. We assume that cities are only about thriving and growth‚ but actually it is more about decade‚ declining and abandon of the cities and the history and memories of them. We like to believe that buildings are permanent‚ totally functional and save‚ however this might be one of the biggest lies that have been told in architecture schools
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"The Debate over Coastal Developments Poses a Danger to Coastal Cities at Risk to Storms and Rising Sea Levels" The purpose for this essay is to summarize and respond to the article by Jennifer Weeks. Her article ’s central theme is on the "Coastal Development and the risk posed for these communities when flooding‚ super storms‚ and rising sea levels continue to impact these cities in these coastal zones. Coastal cities in these zones would be highly vulnerable to flooding during storms and rising
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Contemporary Art has often been and overlooked aspect over the classical pieces of art and artists from the previous art eras and earlier‚ but many of the great artists in history come from this modern era. The term contemporary art means pieces of art that are produced in the current period of time and the common start point for this type of art is from the 1970’s to the present day. In Houston there are two museums that display Contemporary Art for no fee‚ the Menil Collection‚ and Contemporary
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Contemporary Developments in Business and Management- Deliotte Touche Tohmatsu’- DTT Executive Summary ‘Deliotte Touche Tohmatsu’- DTT‚ is a blue-chip company providing Audit‚ Consulting‚ Financial Advisory‚ Risk Management‚ and Tax services. DTT has its global member companies operating in assorted markets following specified regulatory and regional obligations of the country of their operation. However‚ the company only facilitates its member firms in providing the stated services‚ and doesn’t
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estate agent reserving nicer neighborhoods only for his White clients. The majority of Americans would concur that the first form of racism is unquestionably immoral. This method of taking race into account is generally identified as "racism" in contemporary usage‚ and for the purposes of this paper‚ will serve as our definition. The second form of taking race into account‚ called "racial kinship"‚ is when members of a particular race treat members of his or her own race with more benevolence than
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Sakinal Christion Professor Sweetwood ECON315 12/18/13 In my opinion‚ I think that the United States should base its policies off of what is best for its own citizens. We can’t afford to focus on the well-being of other countries because we aren’t in the best condition either. We have things like homelessness‚ the recession‚ world-wide hunger‚ and other burdens to take care of in our own country. The United States is already trillions of dollars in debt and struggling trying to come up for air
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Education Problems in India have been in existence for quite some time now and these continue to dog the concerned. India has reached remarkable achievement in economic sector and this has brought a lot of changes in the education sector. But these changes have not turned to be sufficient to solve the ever-existent and ever-changing Education Problem in India. The problems of education system in India are of grave concern and this concern has not been ignored. The budget for education has been increasing
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School Consolidation Debate 1731 In recent years‚ municipal governments across America have found themselves searching for ways to trim costs by consolidating services with other municipal governments in the counties they’re in. They have consolidated law enforcement agencies‚ sanitation‚ health departments‚ municipal courts‚ etc. But in many of those counties‚ school systems have been left out of the discussion. In 2010‚ the Memphis City School (MSC) system made a failed attempt to merge with
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CONTEMPORARY POLICE PROBLEMS Some critiques have said that a small percentage of law enforcement officers who are responsible for the misdeeds of the organization that have brought public criticism upon them. This very fact makes the indifference of police heads to the situation all the more reprehensible subject to criticism. Generally‚ when the police administrators are bought to task for permitting improper practices and misbehavior to continue‚ they are quick to blame political interference
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Political and Economical Issue of a Front Line State Over the past eight years‚ Pakistan has suffered bitterly in every field of concern. Born as a Muslim State‚ the wrestling between its secular and Islamic natures has never been so pronounced as in recent years. Its other sources of unrest‚ including the military ’s role as the authority of power there have been four coups in her past years of independence its raging corruption and political instability‚ resulting in the decline of development
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