Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 12‚ Number 2—Spring 1998—Pages 139-160 Are Cities Dying? Edward L. Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers‚ such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler‚ have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired
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Jeff Speck is a city planner and architectural designer who‚ through writing‚ lectures‚ and built work‚ advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007‚ he oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design‚ a federal program that helps state governors fight suburban sprawl. Prior to joining the Endowment‚ Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of
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City of Kelsey At the request of the City of Kelsey‚ Team Bravura was hired to provide an impartial assessment of the effectiveness of the City’s website. In keeping aligned with the founder’s vision‚ the focus of the website is to maintain a close-knit community in an earth-friendly manner. The website should assist current and future citizens of Kelsey informed about City business‚ operations‚ and events. The following analysis focuses on demographics‚ a review of the current website
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The City Of Dhaka Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh. Located on the banks of the River Buriganga‚ the city has a population of about 7 million‚ making it one of the largest cities in the region. It has a colourful history and known as the ’City of Mosques.’ Modern Dhaka is the center of political‚ cultural and economic life in Bangladesh. Dhaka was successively ruled by the Turkish and Afghan governors descending from the Delhi Sultanate before the arrival of the Mughals in 1608. Under Mughal
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Nightsong: City By Dennis Brutus Sleep well‚ my love‚ sleep well: the harbor lights glaze over restless docks‚ police cars cockroach through the tunnel streets; from the shanties creaking iron-sheets violence like a bug-infested rag is tossed and fear is immanent* as sound in the wind-swung bell; the long day’s anger pants from sand and rocks; but for this breathing night at least‚ my land‚ my love‚ sleep well. Nightsong: City is essentially a love-song to the writers’ homeland
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which an increasing proportion of the population of an area becomes concentrated into the towns and cities. The term is also defined as the level of population concentration in urban areas. The proc ess of urbanization increases both the number and size of towns and cities. Urbanization is the most significant phenomenon of the 20th century which has almost affected all aspects of the national life in India. Being the second most populous country in the world after China India’s fast growing urbaniza tion
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WALKING IN THE CITY N TH I S R E M A R K A B LE E S S AY‚ carefully poised between poetry and semiotics‚ Michel de Certeau analyses an aspect of daily urban life. He presents a theory of the city‚ or rather an ideal for the city‚ against the theories and ideals of urban planners and managers‚ and to do so he does not look down at the city as if from a high-rise building – he walks in it. Walking in the city turns out to have its own logic – or‚ as de Certeau puts it‚ its own “rhetoric.” The walker
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There is just one city‚ Islamabad‚ that is a city of natural streams‚ flowing out of perennial and seasonal springs of the Margalla hills. Just stepping onto the trails from any part of the hills‚ one can notice pure water gurgling over the boulders and rough stones. These beautiful streams in hundreds have sustained wildlife for thousands of years. Those of us who are fortunate to have seen Islamabad in the early years‚ myself in the early 1970s‚ have a good memory of natural streams full of clear
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Ethnography of an Iraqi Village Written in the late 1950’s this is ethnography of a small village El Nahra‚ in Iraq. Elizabeth Fernea‚ the author‚ is the new wife of an anthropologist‚ who joins her husband in Iraq to do his graduate work. As an American woman‚ Elizabeth eventually chooses to integrate herself into tribal society by donning the traditional abayah (what we know as a burka)‚ avoiding being seen by unfamiliar men. She lives and eats and works as the women of the village do almost entirely
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“Describtion Of A City Shower”by Jonathan Swift (Tone) In the poem “Describtion Of A City Shower‚” Jonathan Swift expresses the tone in a angered and disgusted way. The tone of this poem is shown when: “Meanwhile the South‚ rising with dabbled wings‚ A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings.” This expresses his anger and disgust while the rich is waking up to happiness‚ they are waking up to filth and poverty. I too have expressed this tone as Jonathan Swift did. I used this tone
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