10 URBAN ENVIRONMENT Suneel Pandey‚ Shaleen Singhal‚ Pragya Jaswal‚ and Manraj Guliani Great cities are planned and grow without any regard for the fact that they are parasites on the countryside‚ which must somehow supply food‚ water‚ air‚ and degrade huge quantities of wastes. —Eugene Odum Six to seven million people are added annually to urban India. At the beginning of this millennium‚ 285 million Indians lived in its nearly 4400 towns and cities (Census 2001)
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The Future of Food in Vancouver: Small-scale Urban Farming In today’s modern world Canadians are facing daunting challenges with regards to health and the environment. The NASA website on climate change reports that temperature‚ carbon dioxide levels‚ and sea levels are all on the rise while land and arctic ice are steadily declining (”Vital Signs of the Planet”). Not only is the environment degrading at a rapid rate our health is also declining. In 2012 it was reported that almost 13.5 million
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The opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 had great significance in Australian society. The bridge‚ an architectural marvel‚ cemented Australia’s status as a rising nation‚ joined Sydney’s two shores‚ alleviated the effects of the great depression and the opening provided a stage for the theatrics of the semi-fascist New Guard. Nationally‚ the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge marked a huge step forward for Australia. The Bridge’s strong‚ impressive form gave an idea of strength and
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Urban Sociology Towns and cities as we know them today‚ become what they are because of a serious of events that gradually changed and shaped them from what they were to what they are now known for. The earth is home to approximately some six billion people‚ living in the cities and rural areas of around about 200 nations as stated by Macionis & Plummer (2012). This was not so in the past‚ before all these cities and towns emerged people lived a nomadic life‚ moving from area to area in such of
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Sustainable Cities: Building the Future City for the Next 100 Years Songdo International City-S. Korea In his book Urban Geography‚ Michael Pacione‚ discusses the “Future City-Cities of the Future”. In his analysis there are several principles that must be included in the future city in order for it to strive and be successful‚ “by 2025 65 percent of the world’s population will be in urban areas” (Pacione 2005) The need for the city of the next 100 years to be sustainable in all aspects is paramount
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Urban Governance for sustainable development 1 URBAN GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Dr. Alka Bharat‚ Professor‚ Dept. of Architecture & Planning‚ M.A.N.I.T.‚ Bhopal – 462007‚ India. E-mail: alka_bharat@yahoo.com Ms. Chandan Chawla‚ Architect / Urban Planner.E mail: ccassociates@rediffmail.com INTRODUCTION The importance of sustainability in the urban setting cannot be over emphasized‚ as it concerns the very survival of a city. Healthy cities contribute to a healthy nation. Clean
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URBAN DESIGN: ORNAMENT AND DECORATION i This Page Intentionally Left Blank URBAN DESIGN: ORNAMENT AND DECORATION Second Edition Cliff Moughtin‚Taner Oc and Steven Tiesdell OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Architectural Press An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House‚ Jordan Hill‚ Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue‚ Woburn‚ MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group First
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Iran. J. Environ. Health. Sci. Eng.‚ 2010‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1‚ pp. 43-52 URBAN SPRAWL AND CLIMATIC CHANGES IN TEHRAN *1Gh. R. Roshan‚ 2S. Zanganeh Shahraki‚ 3D. Sauri‚ 4R. Borna 1 Faculty of Geography‚ University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran Geography and Urban Planning Department‚ University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran 3 Department of Geography‚ Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona‚ Bellaterra‚ Spain 4 Islamic Azad University‚ Branch of Ahvaz‚ Ahvaz‚ Iran 2 Downloaded from http://journals.tums.ac.ir/ on
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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 DESIGN AND CONSERVATION 1. Urban Design The term “urban design” may have been coined in the mid-1950s but 20 years later it was still largely unused outside a small circle of people concerned with the four-dimensional development of precincts of cities. It has a wide‚ almost boundary-less definition with different connotations depending on professional discipline or the particular context within which the urban environment is being assessed. It is the process of making or shaping physical
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