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    Town Planing

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    Q- Town planning is a science as well as art ? Town planning is a science as well as art .The art and science of ordering the use of land and sitting of buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum practicable degree of economy‚ convenience and beauty within available resources and time frame. If all artistic sense is forgotten in planning we start to build places that lack culture. Sure we can add an institution that may bring culture to that area‚ but the area itself lacks

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    Jones Town

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    Ziyin Chen History 146-04 In 1978‚ November 18th‚ there was a tragedy happened in a town located in Guyana. The town’s name was “Jones Town‚” and it was named by Jim Jones. The purpose of the town was to bring Jim Jones’ believers together and live happily ever after‚ but turns out to be a huge tragedy for those who were living in Jones Town. Around 909 people committed suicide by drinking poison under the command of Jim Jones. There were few survivors‚ but they have lost their family members (Nelson)

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    Our Town

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    every day‚ for life is a fleeting thing. With troubles rapidly expanding in Europe and war becoming a looming reality‚ people were inundated with the negative aspects of life. To see Our Town was to escape from the negative and rejoice in the ordinary; it reaffirmed faith in the unchanging moral values of small town living. It was obviously the balm that audiences needed in the midst of a pessimistic and changing world. Through his play‚ Wilder tries to teach the audience to seize the moment and enjoy

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    Circus in Town

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    through the power of imagination or guide them to the realization of their potential. This is the case for the protagonists in “Circus in Town”‚ by Sinclair Ross and “Happiness for Sale”‚ by Jia Lynn Yang. Jenny in the short story‚ “Circus in Town”‚ lives a poverty stricken life. One day her brother‚ Tom‚ comes home with a poster about the circus coming to town. Jenny’s excitement grew with the possibility of being able to just catch a glimpse of the professional entertainers that she envied so

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    Town of Manchester

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    In the article “Kentucky Town of Manchester Illustrates National Obesity Crisis‚” Wil Haygood demonstrates how the dangers of obesity are rampant in small towns. Specifically‚ how their surroundings are contributing to the alarming obesity rate in this charming little town of Manchester. While Haygood depicts how the locals “celebrate the joys of community closeness‚” he also reveals how “it is one of the unhealthiest places of all”. In fact‚ he points out that an estimated 52% of the 2‚100

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    Paper Towns

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    in Florida‚ she was long gone. I put the map on the wall and began to reassemble it and figure out where she was going. There was a hole right on this town called Algoe‚ New York. I had never even heard of the place before so of course I looked it up on Omnictionary. One page popped up and I clicked on it‚ it gave a little description about the town but no clues. I went down to the comments and I finally saw it. Margo had commented on the Omnictionary page‚ she was Algoe and I needed to go see her

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    River Town

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    River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler’s memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching at the Fuling Teachers College in Fuling‚ a remote village in China’s Sichuan province. In addition to writing about his life and experiences in Fuling‚ Hessler provides detailed descriptions of the landscape‚ its people‚ and history. The village of Fuling had not seen foreigners in at least fifty years prior to the arrival of Peter

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    otherwise lost in the blink of an eye. British poet Dylan Thomas and American poet E.E. Cummings have both been noted for the recurring themes of passage of time in their poetry. In Thomas? "Fern Hill" and Cummings? "anyone lived in a pretty how town‚" both modern poets utilize a juxtaposition of paradoxes to express the irrevocable passage of time and the loss of innocence attributed to it. While Thomas projects his mature feelings into a nostalgic site of his childhood‚ Cummings takes a

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    Eco Towns

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    nEco town Case Study White Hill Bordon Whitehill Bordon is located in the south east of England – 46 miles from central London. The nearest big cities are Guildford to the north and Portsmouth to the south. The town has grown around the Ministry of Defence’s presence in the town. It is set in rolling countryside and it is about a 40 minute drive to the sea. A new national park is being established – the South Downs National Park – and Whitehill Bordon will serve as a gateway to it. Here is a

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    My Town

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    Belgrave was first settled in 1851. Belgrave was named after an 1840s chapel in Leeds‚ Yorkshire‚ England; the name carried by Mr and Mrs R.G. Benson when they came to Melbourne in 1856. Their sons‚ the Benson Brothers‚ settled in the Belgrave district in the 1870s. A Post Office opened in the area around 1904. Many men from Belgrave went to war‚ and there is a war memorial in Belgrave. Belgrave Lake was constructed in 1893 to supply water to Dandenong. Water flowed by pipeline to Heany Park

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