Gravity Hills: Urban Legend Urban Legends are stories‚ usually false or exaggerated‚ that are repeatedly told and embellished over time until they are believed to be true. Gravity Hills is known to be an urban legend and it is also surrounded by scary stories. It’s said that in various hills of California‚ if a car is parked on neutral it will somehow roll up the slope of the nearby hill. There have been stories due to this belief that children died in the hills as they helped push their school
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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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How have three of the texts you have studied provided insight into the individual’s relationships to the urban landscape? The three texts; T.S Eliot’s The Preludes poem‚ Jennifer Strauss’ Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram poem and the short story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury‚ provide an insight into each individual’s relationship with the urban landscape through the underlying motif of urban alienation. The writers explore the alienating effect of city life as people are forced to suppress and
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Rural poverty in the Kingdom of Morocco Poverty is essentially a rural phenomenon in the Kingdom of Morocco. About 4 million people in the country live below the national poverty line‚ and 3 million of them are in rural areas. During the decade from 1994 to 2004 there was a significant increase in the incidence of poverty in some of the poorest provinces. And although there has been progress in the country’s standing in the human development index‚ the gap between urban and rural areas remains a
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Econ 350 Urban/Regional Economics Short Essay Review of a Journal Article Journal of Urban Economics‚ (56) 2004 1-24 Geography and the Internet: Is the Internet a substitute or a complement for cities? Todd Sinai and Joel Waldfogel 9th of May 2005 Abstract This paper has provided with an interesting point to begin analysis. Communications technology has always been of interest to the urban economist. The internet has new significance as a method of commerce and looks set to
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RURAL AGRI – MARKETING – WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ABSTRACT: India is basically an agrarian society‚ mostly dependent on agriculture‚ since times immemorial. Rural marketing is as old as civilization. Surplus of the agro-products were exchanged in earlier days by barter system. Gradually‚ the scenario has changed with the introduction of currency‚ transport and communication. This has relatively increased the scope of rural marketing. There are networks of co-operative societies
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RURAL MARKETING A Project on T.Y.BMS COMPILED BY: RAJIV.B (09) NAVIN.C (11) ANKIT.G (15) ROHAN.M (31) RINKI.W (59) Introduction Gone are the days when a rural consumer went to a nearby city to buy ‘branded products and services’. Trends indicate that the rural markets are coming up in
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Accenture Research Report Masters of rural markets: The Hallmarks of High Performance Contents Foreword: Unleashing India’s rural multiplier effect 03 Growing business confidence in rural opportunities 05 The attractions and distractions of rural markets 09 Distinctive capabilities that enable 15 companies to succeed in India’s hinterland Framework factors critical to nurturing distinctive capabilities 28 Developing the right capabilities—and
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DENR ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 26-A Series 1994 Subject: PHILIPPINE STANDARDS FOR DRINKING WATER 1993 UNDER THE PROVISION OF CHAPTER II‚ SECTION 9 OF PD 856‚ OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CODE ON SANITATION OF THE PHILIPPINES. To implement the provisions of section 9‚ otherwise known as the Prescribed Standards and Procedures of Chapter ll of the Code on Sanitation of the Philippines‚ PD 856‚ this Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water 1993 hereby revises and updates the 1978 National
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Rural Development of Pakistan CSR Project Submitted to: Sir Uzair farooq Submitted by: M.Azeem khan MBO-20 Comsats University‚ Lahore Rural Development of Pakistan
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