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    urban framework

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    1513 Urban Framework. 18/10/02 11:21 AM Page 6 September 2002 UPPER ESPLANADE/ST KILDA FORESHORE UDF. COURTESY OF 4D FORM PTY LTD UR BAN DE S I GN FRAMEWORK S This Practice Note is a guide to the preparation and use of Urban Design Frameworks. Frameworks are strategic planning tools that set out an integrated design vision for the desired future development of urban places. They translate the broad aims of Municipal Strategic Statements (MSS) and planning schemes to practical urban

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    Los Dos Fridas

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    The two Fridas or Los Dos Fridas was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939 during the movement know as surrealism (Stokstad 1079). Kahlo ’s self-portrait reflects her emotions within her mind and body. It reflects the emotions that she truly feels. Frida does this in a way that others would interoperate as stuff of dreams and nightmares. It is how others see her work that makes it surrealism. Frida writes‚ "I never painted dreams I painted my own reality" (Stokstad 1079). Frida Kahlo did the surrealist

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    The Urban and Rural Post

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    The Urban and Rural Divide 1 Imagine life in Los Angeles. Now imagine life in a neighbouring rural California town. Finally‚ picture life in Cairo‚ Egypt. Which of these last two places is more different from Los Angeles? Many people might mistakenly choose Cairo because it is in a different country. In fact‚ city dwellers all over the world tend to have similar lifestyles‚ so the biggest differences are between Los Angeles and its smaller neighbour. Urban people and rural people‚ regardless

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    Environment Programme (UNEP) states that ‘By 2007‚ one-half of the world’s population will live in urban areas compared to little more than one-third in 1972‚ and the period 1950 to 2050 will see a shift from a 65 per cent rural population to 65 per cent urban (United Nations Population Division 2001a). By 2002‚ some 70 per cent of the world’s urban population will be living in Africa‚ Asia or Latin America (UNCHS

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    Urban Sprawl

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    The terms urban sprawl and car dependent now accurately describe the lifestyle of most Americans and individuals around the globe. Urban sprawl is an urban layout where the location of homes‚ schools‚ shops‚ and places of work are widely separated. All of the vastly separated locations are connected by multilane highways. The highways alleviate the issue of distance and replace it with an issue of time (how quick a location can be reached). The city limits are also constantly extending into the countryside

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    Urban Tourism

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    culture. Every area has its own requirement‚ culture and climate and it is necessary that urban areas are designed considering all these needs rather than following designs. This essay discusses how and why ‘creativity’ rather than ‘flagships’ are necessary to regenerate communities. Creativity and Cities Add History Here!!!!!!!!!!!!! Creativity has become a widely researched topic particularly in tourism and urban development. It is evident that cities can attract tourists by developing themselves

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    Urban Planning

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    This report will introduce three main urban planning issues: 1. Overcrowding. 2. Transportation. 3. Safety. Overcrowding: Population rate is different from a city to another due many factors‚ however; its growth continues to increase day by day which creates overcrowding. According to the urban planner Le Corbusier‚ in his dream city that mainly contains skyscrapers created a population density and increased the issue of overcrowding‚ on the other hand these high buildings occupy only 12%

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    urban crime

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    Lecture Series: Space – society – economy WS 2014/2015 Organized crime and its cinematic representation How do they influence each other? Barbora Holevová Matrikelnummer: 65985 WS 2014/2015 barbora.holevova1@gmail.com Katholische Universität Ingolstadt – Eichstätt Fachbereich Geographie Professur für Wirtschaftsgeographie Prof. Hans – Martin Zademach & Cornelia Bading Table of Content 1. Introduction 3 2. Familiarization with an issue of urban crime: the mafia 4 3. Cinematic

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    Urban Decay

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    Energy and Environment Group Project Problems of urban decay and solutions to HK The running down of the parts in a city which turns it become unsuitable for people to live in is called urban decay. Urban decay leads to the problems in economy (money)‚ society (people) and environment (our surroundings). There have several examples of urban decay. Slum housing‚ provides a poor living condition with overcrowding‚ share outside toilets‚ without hot water and

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    Urban Sprawling

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    concentration in an urban area.   In other words‚ the process of urbanization is also known as prosesurbanisasi. As a result of this urbanization will cause a change in the total population‚ urban functions‚ land use and the way people live in urban areas (Pacione Michael‚ 2009). In the context of urbanization in Malaysia‚ in Malaysia cities experiencing rapid urbanization process after the country achieved kemerdekaan.Jumlah the city’s population grew rapidly because of rural-urban migration. Among

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