A smart city uses resources efficiently and provides solutions sustainably. It provides solutions that are cost effective which reduces the carbon footprint. These solutions include the implementation of green buildings‚ electric powered vehicles and the use of alternate renewable energy sources. Smart cities are based on integrated systems that interact to form an efficient and productive economy. A smart city is a city that is developed to reduce negative environmental impact. It is
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WALKING IN THE CITY N TH I S R E M A R K A B LE E S S AY‚ carefully poised between poetry and semiotics‚ Michel de Certeau analyses an aspect of daily urban life. He presents a theory of the city‚ or rather an ideal for the city‚ against the theories and ideals of urban planners and managers‚ and to do so he does not look down at the city as if from a high-rise building – he walks in it. Walking in the city turns out to have its own logic – or‚ as de Certeau puts it‚ its own “rhetoric.” The walker
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Peñafrancia. Celebrated last September 15‚ 2012‚ the fluvial procession is the culminating event of the festival as thousands of devotees flock to Naga City‚ Camarines Sur to join the festivities as the image of Ina was transferred back to her shrine‚ the Basilica Minore de Peñafrancia. It was a fiesta atmosphere when I arrived in Naga City via an Airphil Express flight. This year marks the festival’s 302nd anniversary. There were a lot of people and the roads were closed for the procession
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knowing the land around them‚ managed to strike the British many times‚ and‚ in the end‚ win the first battle of the revolution. One of the next key skirmishes in the Revolution was the Battle of Bunker Hill. This battle was fought in the center of Boston‚ at a small hill known as Breed’s hill. Bunker Hill was actually a few blocks away from Breed’s‚ making this battle’s name a misnomer. The
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April 16‚ 2013 The Materialistic and Patriarchal Fall of Linden Hills Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor successfully creates a chilling argument against suppressive patriarchal societies and families. She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits‚ morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainment of material things and status become the driving force for people. “They eat‚ sleep‚ and breathe for one
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Walking the City By Caroline Fermoselle Student ID: 3203130 London: City of Change AME_5_LCC Module Coordinator: Jenny Owen Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences Walking the city is viewed by de Certeau as a key ’tactical practice’ for a critical understanding of London life; while Benjamin identified the Flâneur and flânerie as central to the urban experience. Critically analyse these key concepts in relation to a walk or walks you have experienced in London. Cultural
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Nightsong: City By Dennis Brutus Sleep well‚ my love‚ sleep well: the harbor lights glaze over restless docks‚ police cars cockroach through the tunnel streets; from the shanties creaking iron-sheets violence like a bug-infested rag is tossed and fear is immanent* as sound in the wind-swung bell; the long day’s anger pants from sand and rocks; but for this breathing night at least‚ my land‚ my love‚ sleep well. Nightsong: City is essentially a love-song to the writers’ homeland
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Staring over with school after being out of high school for 20 years hasn’t been easy. Students may deal with being scared‚ with learning to use new technology‚ and actually committing to doing online schooling‚ but with the teacher’s guidance and school’s support students will overcome these obstacles and succeed. The biggest fear for me with starting over with school is knowing that’s its’ going to be hard. Struggling with a learning disability and being out of school so long has put me in a
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cover the disadvantages of the current system‚ which have often been ignored by the media and governments. 10 Inequality The common capitalist mantra that “anyone can be rich if they work hard enough” is a fallacy. There’s only so much room at the top. In order to make money‚ first you have to take it from someone else. This can be done through selling things‚ taxation or any other means. But this means that the rich cannot exist without the poor. Any way you look at it‚ there’s never going to be
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The City Planners - Margaret Atwood Summary: The Canadian author/poet Margaret Atwood creates this piece of poetry‚ addressing the perfection‚ robotic‚ bland and uniform structure of the city as she takes a cruise through it on a relaxing Sunday weekend‚ something that she finds completely sickening. Throughout the poem‚ she addresses the sickening sense of conformity that she finds in the city as well as the hidden hand behind all of this – the ‘evil’ politicians of this world‚ she says.
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