percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005.[1] However‚ due to rising population‚ and the rise especially in urban populations‚ the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums[2] and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.[3] The term has traditionally referred to housing areas that were once relatively affluent but which deteriorated as the original dwellers moved on to
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campaigns for environmental change Building cities in earthquake zones The effect of global warming on cities Adapting areas surrounding cities to provide resources Removing the unwanted by-products of city life Providing health information for city dwellers Page 2 of 4 Sample Academic Reading A: Questions A While cities and their metropolitan areas have always interacted with and shaped the natural environment‚ it is only recently that historians have begun to consider this relationship
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A tipi (also tepee and teepee) is a Lakota name for a conical tent traditionally made of animal skins and wooden poles used by the nomadic tribes and sedentary tribal dwellers (when hunting) of the Great Plains. Tipis are stereotypically associated with Native Americans in general but Native Americans from places other than the Great Plains mostly used different types of dwellings. The term "wigwam" (a domed structure) is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to a tipi. The tipi was durable‚ provided
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a club. It’s located a short walk away from Central MTR Station – you’ll know it once you see it. Once it starts getting late‚ the street is packed with people searching for a suitable bar‚ with promoters vying for attention. #9 Get Artsy at the Fringe Club Unicode Located a few blocks away from Central MTR
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locations that deal with extreme scarcity. The most common places that deal with this include India‚ South-East Asia‚ Africa and South America. Amongst these common places we also find contrastive groups that undergo poverty such as homeless‚ fringe dwellers‚ the unemployed‚ single parents and those who are brought into a life where their family don’t make enough money. Our poor still to this day are still at a great disadvantage and Jonathan Swift was one of the few‚ great people who wanted to support
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Place Matters: Chapters 1-4 A community is a place where people around supposed to be able to live and thrive together. When one thinks of a community‚ the image that most likely is visualized is one of a place where each person lives harmoniously with all the other members of that community. While this may be the typical image of a community‚ it is not the realistic view. In reality communities can share both good and bad aspects. In Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter
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areas as the best policy option. Consequently‚ they have implemented numerous rural development programmes that have largely failed to achieve their set goals and objectives. We explore the reasons for these failures‚ which include lack of rural dwellers’ participation in policy formulation; lack of political will on the part of the policy elites to painstakingly define the problems of rural development within the context of inequality‚ unemployment and poverty in the society; lack of strong and
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Population distribution: Urbanization and Urban growth An urban area is defined as a town or city plus its adjacent suburban fringes with a population of between10‚000-50‚000. A rural area usually is defined as an area with a population of less than 2‚500 people. Urbanization is the process in which people increasingly move from rural areas to densely populated cities; also involves the transformation of rural areas into urban areas. A country’s degree of urbanization is the percentage of its population
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commercial activities. As per Census of India 2011‚ it constitutes about 64% of the urban population of Valley and 38% of the urban population of the J&K State. The city has already swollen up beyond municipal limits and started engulfing nearby urban fringe villages and the three small towns of Pampore‚ Badgam and Ganderbal. Like other capital cities of India‚ Srinagar is bi-functional in nature with administrative services as the most predominant function. Despite low absorption potential of service
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"Sanitation has become a topical issue that we can hardly ignore. Our cities and municipalities in particular have become engulfed in filth as evidenced by the increasing heaps of rubbish that we encounter by our roads and residential areas" President J.A. Kufour FILTH IN ACCRA Is Accra really deserving of the title Capital City? For a city that is playing host to millions of tourists next year for Ghana’s golden jubilee celebrations as well as the CAN 2008 football tournament the next year
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