Book Review on Urban Poverty B M Hasanul Banna International Islamic University Malaysia Urban poverty is the outcome of urban-bias development projects being predominantly financed by the external capital‚ either in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or Aid. The urban-bias industrialization strategy performed as a pull factor for the rural unemployed. This strategy contributed to the expanding of urban informal sectors where unskilled as well as highly unorganized day labours remain
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sector. Furthermore‚ the pattern of distribution of socio-economic infrastructure exhibits an urban rather than a rural location bias which further helps to increase rural poverty. The absence of these amenities constitute push factors facilitating the migration of rural dwellers into urban centers‚ resulting to population explosion in most urban cities in Nigeria. Consequently the existing urban services are overstrained which often times lead to total collapse. A large proportion of the population
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INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS EFFECT ON URBAN PLANNING: Much before towns and cities were formed people started using some mode of transport‚ during the early ages people started using horses as a mode of transport. When cities started to come up and industrialisation began bicycles were introduced to the world and the use of horses started to fall big time and was completely eradicated. This marked the beginning of the age of industrialisation‚ so all the lanes and the streets in the urban cities were designed
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PLANNING INITIATIVES’ GOALS AND DETROIT URBAN AGRICULTURE OUTCOMES: A COMPARISON Assignment #5: Reviewed Proposal Zoe Pearce‚ 6777341 To: Zahra Azizi Urbs 240 1 PLANNING INITIATIVES’ GOALS AND DETROIT URBAN AGRICULTURE OUTCOMES: A COMPARISON 2 This paper will examine the urban agriculture movement currently taking place in Detroit‚ Michigan and how it is having an effect on the city that the goals and motivations of historical planning initiatives strived to achieve. This paper
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Introduction It is African Americans and Hispanics from the ages of 16-24 who live in urban areas tend to commit more crimes rather than those ethnicity males in rural areas because of their lifestyle. Minorities who live in urban areas tend to follow what they see and believe that it is acceptable to hang out on the streets and commit robberies. They believe the deviant acts they commit are normal. Rural areas like Orange County‚ NY are filled with African American and Hispanics around the same
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How Urban Legends Work In this essay the author Tom Harris tells us how urban legends effects us on how we live‚ the stories that are told can either give us a lesson to be learned or it gives us a warning‚ some stories can be horrific as in the story about the traveling sales man who met a women in Las Vegas and had a few too many drinks and had be drugged and had his kidney removed by a body organ harvesting gang and woke up in a bathroom tube covered in ice and a note to call for help before
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To what extent do urban areas modify their climate? Urban areas climate is often significantly different to the surrounding rural areas‚ this is why urban areas are often described as having their own “micro climate” the differences in urban climates are due to number of different factors. Urban areas often experience a phenomenon known as a heat island‚ this is a zone of hot air around and above an urban area which has higher temperatures than the surrounding rural areas consequently cities tend
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Annotated Bibliography Angelissa Morales | | | Grand Canyon University: UNV 502 August 20‚ 2013 Annotated Bibliography Aggression and Violence and the Achievement Gap Among Urban Minority Youth (Basch‚ 2011) is this article the author explains how the issue of violence and aggressive behaviors has become a growing problem in schools and is negatively effecting the success rate of minority students. Students who acted out violently and with aggression were once looked at as a problem
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Urban Transport Project Abstract London is a busy city with many people wanting to get to a destination. London transport gets commuters and tourists moving from one place to the next‚ with a choice of buses and tube. The Tube is probably the best form of transport in London in terms of coverage‚ speed and reliability. However London buses are also great as they don’t get stuck in traffic due to buses having their own bus lanes. This report shows the quality of London’s public transport addressed
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concentration of these in and near the urban areas causes severe pollution to the surroundings. The largest sources of human-created air pollution are energy generation‚ transportation‚ and industries that use a great deal of energy sources. Depending on their source and interactions with other components of the air‚ they can have different chemical compositions and health impacts. Since these pollutants are generally concentrated in and around urban areas‚ the outdoor urban pollution levels are far higher
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