Summer Youth Olympics. Urban development in Medellin Medellin has been involved in a series of economic‚ social and violence issues caused by drug trafficking and conflicts between communist guerrillas and paramilitaries. The city was in 1992 ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Today‚ things are different. On 21st of May‚ 2011‚ appeared in the local newspaper ’El Colombiano’ an article titled: "Architecture has transformed Medellin”. The urban and social development of
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{draw:rect} Did most urban communities start out as nice as most suburban communities are today? Yes‚ they did. The government built subsidized housing complexes for low income households; today they are called “the projects” or the ghetto. These communities have been run down over the years by vandalism‚ and crime‚ most of these criminal activities that take place in these urban communities are drug related. Even though drugs can be bought out of any community‚ the urban communities are the most
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Speech for Urban Issue – Domestic Violence Domestic Violence is violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or partner‚ usually its violence by men against women Domestic Violence or DV is about power and control over a spouse. The three main types of Domestic Violence are Physical‚ Emotional‚ and Economic (financial) The first kind of domestic violence that we will be talking about is physical violence. Physical violence involves a person using physical force which causes harm to
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Topic The relationship between urban slums and youth crime: a study of selected slums in Jos North local government Area Name: Elekpa Gabriel Inaku Mat no: UJ/2014/PGSS/0148 Supervisor: Dr. Gulleng Introduction Background The slum challenge continues to be one of the faces of poverty‚ inequality and deprivation in many cities in developing countries (WRC 2016). The UN- Habitat defines slums as contiguous settlements that lack one or more of the following five conditions: access to clean water
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With reference to examples‚ evaluate the success or otherwise of urban regeneration schemes in combating the causes and consequences of urban decline (40) Such a question is extremely difficult to answer given its multifaceted nature. In order to approach this question it is necessary to outline that success is an extremely subjective conclusion as what may be a success for some people in a region might be seen as a failure for other people in that same region‚ or indeed another region‚ so assessing
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Urban real estate information systems: the suppression of radical innovation. John S Kirkwood School of Environment & Development‚ Sheffield Hallam University E-mail: j.s.kirkwood@shu.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________________________ John S Kirkwood Page 1 5/02/2003 Abstract Information and communications technologies are continuing to bring about significant changes in society. These changes may be viewed as the direct consequence of technological
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Inner City Decline of One Urban Area After the industrial revolution people became increasingly affluent. This led to social segregation – rich move out of inner city suburbs. People left in the inner city: * Older residents * Single parent families * Students * Poorer families * Ethnic minorities left behind – formation of ghettos. Decentralisation increases the problem: Movement of businesses out of inner city – unemployment – Dead Heart. Removal of businesses causes
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person is raised (relating to their SES) and their social/emotional outcomes. Urban youth who grow up in poverty and/or are exposed to violence and drugs‚ are likely to be at a disadvantage from the very start and are more prone to negative social and emotional outcomes‚ including low self esteem. (Leventhal‚ Brooks-Gunn‚ 2000 & Alvarez‚ 2012). Rap and Hip Hop music has a strong influence on minorities and adolescents from urban areas by offering them an
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Cities 26 (2009) 81–92 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cities journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cities A GIS analysis of the impact of modern practices and polices on the urban heritage of Irbid‚ Jordan Sharaf Al-kheder a‚*‚ Naif Haddad a‚ Leen Fakhoury b‚ Suha Baqaen c a The Hashemite University‚ P.O. Box 150459‚ Zarqa 13115‚ Jordan The University of Jordan‚ Jordan c Consolidated Consultants Engineering and Environment‚ P.O. Box 830746‚ Amman 11183‚ Jordan b
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With reference to examples‚ evaluate the success or otherwise of urban regeneration schemes in combating the causes and consequences of urban decline. (40 marks) Urban decline can be defined as the drastic decline of a city into infirmity and disrepair. It is usually characterised by increased unemployment‚ depopulation‚ deindustrialization‚ increased crime and political disenfranchisement. Not only does it cause these problems but also it can make the area look unattractive – consequently less
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