Hulme City Challenge‚ Manchester Initial Problems Hulme used to be Manchester’s most deprived area. Poor construction led to dampness‚ leaking roofs and cracks in walls. Electrical heating increased condensation and corroded the internal structure. Cockroach infestations reported regularly. Vacant units were increasingly let to families lower down the housing list. Cosmetic attempts (e.g. redecoration) increased costs but had little impact. A child fell from a balcony in 1970. Crime rates
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MY DREAM CITY No matter how old we are‚ we never stop dreaming. Using our imagination in the highest way we create our own world‚ where we are free and brave. People are different and our dreams are different too but in one point we are the same because in our dreams‚ what we create seems to be perfect for us. So I created my dream perfect city which I call the city of Warriors. When I travel to my city I do not want to come back the city like magnet stretches me with
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The article I chose talks about the issues regarding sanctuary cities. It talks about how sanctuary cities are illegal under the constitution and elected officials in sanctuary cities are breaking the law. Furthermore‚ it continues to speak about how undocumented immigrants have criminal records and how certain crimes could have been prevented if undocumented immigrants were deported. U.S. secretary‚ Jeff Sessions‚ wants states to enforce the new federal immigration laws because he believes that
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GWRTC 103 I am a current student at James Madison University and I am from the City of Richmond. Even though I am attending college in Harrisonburg‚ Virginia‚ I am still concerned about the things that go on in Richmond. While riding in a car or sometimes walking through the City of Richmond‚ I couldn’t help but notice the increase of homeless people. They are considered the lowest of the lows because their home is the streets and their clothes are unclean. They are treated as if they aren’t human
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Dhaka‚ Bangladesh Located on the banks of the Buriganga River lies Dhaka; the capital city of Bangladesh. This megacity is the 7th largest populous city in the world‚ with an estimated population of 15 million‚ according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. It is expected to reach a staggering population of 25 million by 2025 (growing at a fast rate of 4.2% per year).The number of Dhaka City’s young population is relatively high due to the age selective rural-urban migration. About 40% of the
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The film City of Trees is a documentary capturing the efforts of a nonprofit organization‚ Parks & People in Washington DC whose goal is to improve DC parks by planting trees. Parks & People employed previously unemployed individuals in a work training program to help them get back on their feet and establish a new life for themselves. The primary goal of the program is to plant trees and revitalize DC parks in primarily in poorer area such as the 8th Ward. However‚ the program hopes that through
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A PAPER ON IDEAL CITIES BY IBANGA‚ ANDIKAN NDABUK (119051018) M.E.D2 (EXECUTIVE) DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS‚ AKOKA‚ NIGERIA ADVANCED URBAN DESIGN (ARC 806) JUNE 2013 CONCEPT In design the Ideal city refers to a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with the dictates of some "rational" or "moral" objective The "ideal" nature of such a city may encompass the moral‚ spiritual and juridical qualities of citizenship as well as
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City night. Its alive. The kaleidoscope of shimmering lights flicker in the distance as the starry sky sweeps over the city that never sleeps. Hazy clouds envelope the moon so it was in its own realm of perpetual darkness. The wet‚ desolate streets of the city rested in silence as the starry black sky wept over it. The water in the portholes shimmered by the glow of the bright‚ yellow street lamps. The small‚ green trees on the roadside swayed as the strong breeze hit them. • Above a faded zebra
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Life in Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico and is located in the center of the country. It resides on what once was a beautiful and ancient lake in the Valley of Mexico. The city is situated about 7‚800 feet above sea level and generally contains many parks and green spaces that are surrounded by numerous mountains. Due to elevation‚ Mexico City is cold in temperature during winter but otherwise‚ the city is consistently warm and sunny throughout the year. It is quite hazy
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Once upon a time there was a city where no one ever spoke. It wasn’t that these people couldn’t speak‚ or that they weren’t allowed to‚ the activity had merely fallen out of favour. It had been so long since the last words had been uttered‚ no could remember exactly why. And so the streets echoed only with the patter of footsteps and cartwheels. Offices and public buildings were home to the gentle rustling of papers and the occasional scraping of a chair leg. In cafés‚ lone gramophones played to
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