SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION THE PATTERN OF URBAN LIFE IN HONG KONG: A DISTRICT LEVEL COMMUNITY STUDY OF SHAM SHUI PO THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG FEBRUARY 2012 i Executive Summary 1. Introduction This research was commissioned by the Central Policy Unit of the HKSAR Government in response to the growing public concern over the socio-economic problems and urban decay in Sham Shui Po (hereafter as SSP). Studies on the urban life revolving SSP have been spasmodic. It is only
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residents. This system has been effective during the colonial era where the urban areas were less populated than there are at the present moment. The Zimbabwe post-independence period has seen a large influx of people into the urban areas. The population growth in urban areas meant that most city councils and municipalities are failing to cope with the water demand. The major reason is that the rate of population increase in urban areas is by far greater than that of improving or increasing the existing
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Committee on Education and Labor Urban Education With the growing count of people in suburban areas‚ cities are left with less money and aid to support its urban settings. The lack of financial support put the schools at a disadvantage; the schools averages are extremely low and the children‚ as well as parents‚ are frustrated with their current situation and the schools. On top of students’ lack of effort in school work‚ the schools are‚ many times‚ unable to better the students’ learning
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INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS EFFECT ON URBAN PLANNING: Much before towns and cities were formed people started using some mode of transport‚ during the early ages people started using horses as a mode of transport. When cities started to come up and industrialisation began bicycles were introduced to the world and the use of horses started to fall big time and was completely eradicated. This marked the beginning of the age of industrialisation‚ so all the lanes and the streets in the urban cities were designed to
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Liam Eifert English 802 October 12‚ 2014 Graffiti in Urban Society Defining what is or is not art is difficult. Another concept that is difficult to define is what constitutes a crime and why something is considered a crime. In the case of graffiti and street art‚ both of these difficult concepts collide‚ creating a very controversial subject. Since the beginning of simple hip hop graffiti in Philadelphia during the 1960s‚ graffiti has evolved into many different forms and has developed a subculture
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breakfast usually develops. Family of procreation (spouse or children) plays a broad role for changing consumer behavior. iii. Personal: Occupation & economic circumstances are the major aspects that will have effect on our product. In urban area like Dhaka consumers are too busy working and commuting all day and making own breakfast can be time consuming and cereal product is a great solution for that‚ specially saving time every morning for working women iv. Psychological:
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Urban consolidation is a rising issue in amny capital cities and could have a dramatic effect on the environmental sustainability of Australian cities in the near and distant future. “Urban consolidation policies concentrate on increasing housing densities in the large cities to produce more compact development‚ shorter travel distances and less dependence on automobiles.” (Forster 2004‚ p.171). Some of the main negative issues that is caused by urban consolidation are a drop in value of pre-existing
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Urban Morphology of Dhaka City: Spatial Dynamics of Growing City and the Urban Core Prof. Dr. Farida Nilufar Department of Architecture‚ Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Email: faridanilufar@yahoo.com [Paper presented on the International Seminar on The History‚ Heritage and Urban Issues of Capital Dhaka‚ on the occasion of the Celebration of 400 years of the Capital Dhaka‚ Organized by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh‚ 17-19 February 2010. Accepted for Publication
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characteristic of decreased death rate‚ increased birth rate and migration to urban areas. Sub-Topics | Topic Sentence | Decrease death rates. | Decreased death rate is a characteristic used in determining over population in Trinidad and Tobago. | Increase in birth rates. | Another feature employed in determining overpopulation in Trinidad and Tobago is increased birth rates. | Migration to urban areas. | Finally‚ migration to urban areas is another aspect of determining overpopulation in Trinidad
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How Urban Legends Work In this essay the author Tom Harris tells us how urban legends effects us on how we live‚ the stories that are told can either give us a lesson to be learned or it gives us a warning‚ some stories can be horrific as in the story about the traveling sales man who met a women in Las Vegas and had a few too many drinks and had be drugged and had his kidney removed by a body organ harvesting gang and woke up in a bathroom tube covered in ice and a note to call for help before
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