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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qualitative research in the previ ous paper‚ this paper explores methods of data collection used in qualitative research. There are a variety of methods of data collection in qualitative research‚ including observations‚ textual or visual analysis (eg from books or videos) and interviews (individual or group).1 How ever‚ the most common methods used‚ particularly in healthcare research‚ are interviews and focus groups.2‚3 The purpose of this paper is to explore these two methods in more detail‚ in
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Features of Indian Rural Markets *Large and Scattered market: The rural market of India is large and scattered in the sense that it consists of over 63 crore consumers from 5‚70‚000 villages spread throughout the country. *Major income from agriculture: Nearly 60 % of the rural income is from agriculture. Hence rural prosperity is tied with agricultural prosperity. *Low standard of living: The consumer in the village area do have a low standard of living because of low literacy‚ low per capita
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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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Urban morphology is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area‚ city‚ town or village by examining the patterns of its component parts and the process of its development. This can involve the analysis of physical structures at different scales as well as patterns of movement‚ land use‚ ownership or control and occupation. Typically‚ analysis of physical form
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RURAL ADVERTISING IN INDIA ABSTRACT Villages are integral part of the Nation. Rural markets acquired greater importance in countries like India‚ China‚ etc. because of economic growth of the nations now highly depend up on the rural economy. Corporate companies are struggling a lot to get more sales/profits in urban areas i.e. almost all the companies are saturated in urban areas. “Go rural and be rural” seems to be the guiding principle of marketing. In this context‚ companies are diversified
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The Problems and Prospects of Rural Development in Bangladesh: A study on some selected geographic area. Chapter 1 1.1 Introduction Bangladesh with its 38% people living below poverty line and 18% living in absolute poverty is suffering from acute rural-urban economic disparity coupled with illiteracy‚ lack of proper health and sanitation facilities. The country’s economy is basically an agrarian one with vast majority living in rural areas. The agriculture sector is unable to provide any
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Rural Retailing in India-The Road Ahead Shikhar Das Srivastava* ABSTRACT The decision to liberalize the Indian Economy in 1991 had far reaching consequences‚ which is still continued into the new millennium also. On the marketing front‚ there was the arrival of many well-known Multi National Companies especially FMCG product dealers. In the initial years the focus was on the easily accessible well developed urban markets but soon it got saturated because of proliferation of brands and intense
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Mar’02-May’02 Issue 31 RURAL LIVELIHOODS Kirankumar Vissa (AID Maryland) Why are they begging on the trains? When you are traveling in India‚ you are invariably forced to ask yourself‚ “What do I do when someone comes to me begging on the street or in the train?” Many say that by giving them money‚ you are only encouraging them not to work for their living - that you are encouraging them to remain poor. But‚ are the people who say this doing anything that helps remove the poverty? Should
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areas of high-density multifunctional developments featuring a pedestrian friendly environment and good public-transit accessibility. Meaning that there is a concentration of activity centred around easy access to the transit network. The strategy of the multiple centres concentrates growth where it is most easily accessible in terms of both transit and infrastructure‚ the strategy forms a hierarchy of nodes from the major centres‚ connections with the railway network‚ and plazas formed along the
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