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    versatility is responsible for its many uses: everything from car parts to doll parts‚ from soft drink bottles to the refrigerators they get stored in. From the car you drive to work in to the television you watch when you get home‚ plastics help make your life easier and better. Plastic bottles mean we can actually lift an economy-size bottle of juice. And should we accidentally drop that bottle‚ it is shatter-resistant. Plastics also help to conserve energy in our homes. Vinyl siding and windows help cut

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    Urban Conservation

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    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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    Urban Slums

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    Urban Slums: Reason for Concern? The definition of a slum varies from one form to another depending on the background or country from which an individual comes from. Someone from a rich country may define slums as old run-down buildings‚ whereas someone from a poor country will define slums as un-serviced haphazard constructions. The universal definition of a slum as found in the dictionary is said to be a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and filth. Slums are seen

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    Shopping Malls: Boon or Bane The world has witnessed rapid economic development in last twenty years. Countries specially‚ India‚ China‚ Brazil‚ Russia etc have seen rapid growth in terms of direct foreign investments‚ development of infrastructure and migration of rural population to urban centres. Shopping malls‚ expressways‚ commercial centres rule the urban landscape amidst sordid state of social structure and governance. Shopping malls are seen as weekend hubs for shopping‚ dining or anything

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    urban renewal

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    ASTRACT In South Africa the URP was part of a National Urban Renewal Strategy announced by the former President Thabo Mbeki in his State of the Nation Address in February 2001. Urban Renewal is not unequally South Africa’s but is worldwide and takes many forms and economic activity process. These may include the upgrade of informal settlements and township development. In South Africa the NURS is co-ordinated and monitored by the National Departments of both the Provincial and Local Government.

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    Urban Sprawl

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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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    Urban Dynamics

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    results of urban dynamics on its growth‚ development‚ future trends and ecological sustainability. Sydney is a large city in the developed world‚ located at 33’52’S and 151’10’E on the East coast of Australia. As Sydney is approximately 12000 square km with a growing population of over 4 million‚ certain urban dynamics must be addressed to allow for ecological sustainability and a resourceful city for future generations. Dynamics which have already had a significant impact on the city are urban decay

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    Urban Decay

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    Energy and Environment Group Project Problems of urban decay and solutions to HK The running down of the parts in a city which turns it become unsuitable for people to live in is called urban decay. Urban decay leads to the problems in economy (money)‚ society (people) and environment (our surroundings). There have several examples of urban decay. Slum housing‚ provides a poor living condition with overcrowding‚ share outside toilets‚ without hot water and

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    Outsourcing: A Boon or Bane?

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    Summary The increasing trend of outsourcing jobs from United States in recent years has created alarming unrest among American people. Politicians also believe that outsourcing has a negative impact on jobs‚ should this be allowed to continue‚ a prosperous future of all Americans is dim. These policy makers are exploiting this issue by introducing new protectionist policies. On the contrary‚ some economists have shrugged of the phenomenon as part of economic growth‚ as outsourcing benefitted U.S

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    mills to run as long as they wanted because there was a new source of power. The automobile made living a lot more interesting and travel greater because of the automobile and its being fueled by petroleum. Urban life was very much affected in a positive way because everyone wanted a better life‚ however‚ with so many coming to the towns to gain financial stability the negatives were quickly mounding. Overcrowded living and work places; poor working conditions and low paying employment opportunities

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