10a) Suggest reasons for the changes shown in the size and distribution of megacities Megacities‚ with a population of at least 10 million‚ have grown in number to 26 in 2009. This is because of the general growth in world population and especially the g r o w t h in NICs such as India‚ Brazil and Indonesia. Their Economic growth has increased rapidly due to industrialisation which has encouraged rural-urban migration to escape rural poverty. This has increased the size of some megacities to
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America Beyond the Color Line: The Streets of Heaven . ETH/125 January 20‚ 2013 Lydia T. Kerr America Beyond the Color Line: The Streets of Heaven In the video “America Beyond the Color Line: The Streets of Heaven‚” Dr. Henry Louis Gates‚ Jr. speaks of the turmoil that exists in the inner cities. He did so by speaking with people who lived in the Robert Taylor and Ida B. Wells housing projects as well as with inmates in the jail. Through these interviews he seeks to gain an understanding of
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Chapter 13 Learning Guide – Urban Patterns Key Issue 3 – Why Do Inner Cities Have Distinctive Problems? Pgs. 418 – 423 • Complete this statement regarding the basic problems of the inner city: “Inner cities in the United States contain concentrations of _______________________ people with a variety of physical‚ _____________________‚ and _________________________ problems very different from those faced by __________________________ residents.” Inner City Physical Issues • What
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Mumbai Script History of Mumbai To understand the urban developments that have occurred within Mumbai we must first look briefly at the history of the City. Mumbai was originally made up of just a small amount of fishing villages. This was until 1662 when it colonised by the British as part of their expansion of the empire. As a result of this‚ Mumbai became a port used by Europeans due to it being the closest proximity to the subcontinent. This increase in activity led to a subsequent jump in the
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Presentation of the city Medellin is the second-largest city in Colombia; it is situated in the Antioquia region near the Andes in South America. In 2012‚ the population was 2‚7 million of inhabitants but with the metropolitan area of Medellin‚ the population was more than 3‚5 million people. Medellin is not the capital of the country – it is Bogota. During the 19th century‚ Medellin was a dynamic commercial center‚ first exporting gold‚ then producing and exporting coffee. The Medellin
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Topic : Urban Exclusion in India with Focus on Inequalities in Urban Areas Urbanisation is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanisation is also defined as the movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. Urbanisation is closely linked to modernisation and industrialisation. Urban growth takes place as more and more people leave villages and farms to live in cities. Urbanisation is a welcome phenomenon of change
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Code of the Street INTRODUCTION The introduction chapter first explains the different types of neighborhoods that the city of Philadelphia has and each of the risks that go along with each neighborhood. Some of the neighborhoods are predominantly white‚ some are racially mixed‚ and some are predominately black. In the white-middle class neighborhoods‚ the neighborhood farthest away from the core downtown area‚ there is little crime and upscale restaurants and stores. In the racially mixed neighborhood
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THE CASE OF KATHPUTLI COLONY In 2007‚ the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) began planning for Delhi’s first in-situ slum rehabilitation project. It chose the Kathputli Colony (Kathputli)‚ a jhuggi jhopri (JJ) cluster tucked into West Delhi’s Shadipur region‚ as the site for this project. In 2009‚ Raheja—the private developers chosen to undertake the project—announced the construction
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Solo Selling Art Solo (or Surakarta)‚ one of big cities in Indonesia which is located in Central Java has showed its outstanding progress in developing and managing the city. June 22-24 2010 was the first time for Solo City to be chosen as the host of Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUT). Apparently‚ Solo was being opted due to its clean and lovely environment as well as sufficient accommodation facility such as airport. Admittedly‚ during these few years
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ĐÁP ÁN THI IELTS NGÀY 27-07-2013 Written by Pham Thi Le Na Timing: 10 Minutes Word count: 385 OLD BUILDINGS SHOULD BE DEMOLISHED? Whether governments should demolish old houses to widen roads and build new ones remains controversial. Some people think that this trend is possible to open new economic opportunities while others claim that old houses need to be preserved thanks to their precious historical value. I partly agree with the statement for the following reasons. First‚ the appearance of old
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