Nodes In the context of the plan‚ the nodes are planned 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
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The Future of Food in Vancouver: Small-scale Urban Farming In today’s modern world Canadians are facing daunting challenges with regards to health and the environment. The NASA website on climate change reports that temperature‚ carbon dioxide levels‚ and sea levels are all on the rise while land and arctic ice are steadily declining (”Vital Signs of the Planet”). Not only is the environment degrading at a rapid rate our health is also declining. In 2012 it was reported that almost 13.5 million
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decentralization of retailing and other services has had a major impact on urban areas.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? – Consequently the decentralization of retailing and other services are having or have had major impacts on the urban areas whether they are negative or positive because it is taking consumers out of their local town and spending their disposable income elsewhere‚ this is bound to have effect on urban areas. In the 1970s the shopping patterns began to change due to the
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subdivisions of counties‚ or county equivalents in the case of Alaska and Louisiana. The amount of counties in a state depends on how much land there is in the state. Some have well over 200‚ like Texa‚ and some have five or less like Delaware. California‚ which only had 27 counties when it was first gaining statehood‚ now has a total of 58. One of the 58 counties is named Shasta‚ a medium sized county in the northern California area at the top of the Sacramento Valley. Shasta county was originally
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heading “Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development” at City Campus‚ University of Technology Sydney‚ Australia. Urban agriculture is probably as old as our cities‚ but never received much attention from the aspect of planning and governance till now. Urban Agriculture‚ the “integration” of farming into the urban economic and ecological system and also embedded in and interaction with the urban ecosystem such linkages includes the use of urban residents as laborers‚ use of typical urban resources
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The artwork by Claire Oakley is a mixed media painting of tree textures. Unique ways are applied to creating this work with tissue paper‚ watercolour‚ poster paint‚ and acrylic. The artist represents the natural texture and ochre colour of tree bark to the artwork‚ however‚ tints of vivid colour are also used to create a livelier atmosphere. The essence of this artwork is its texture and naturalness resembling real trees. The artist used watered down acrylic (brown‚ black‚ red and grey tones) and
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| UNIT THREE CRIMINOLOGY PROJECT | URBAN & RURAL CRIME | | | | Elaine Lawrence | 23/4/2012 | | RURAL CRIME INTRODUCTION This project is going to look at urban crime and rural crime and how it differs. It will look at statistics for crime in urban and rural areas and see whether there is any difference. There is research put forward by criminologists to suggest that crime is higher in urban to that of rural areas. The project will be using secondary research as
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Urban Sociology Towns and cities as we know them today‚ become what they are because of a serious of events that gradually changed and shaped them from what they were to what they are now known for. The earth is home to approximately some six billion people‚ living in the cities and rural areas of around about 200 nations as stated by Macionis & Plummer (2012). This was not so in the past‚ before all these cities and towns emerged people lived a nomadic life‚ moving from area to area in such of
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This report will introduce three main urban planning issues: 1. Overcrowding. 2. Transportation. 3. Safety. Overcrowding: Population rate is different from a city to another due many factors‚ however; its growth continues to increase day by day which creates overcrowding. According to the urban planner Le Corbusier‚ in his dream city that mainly contains skyscrapers created a population density and increased the issue of overcrowding‚ on the other hand these high buildings occupy only 12%
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The Political System in India Caste Politics Introduction India is a multicultural and multilingual country. Indian society is broadly divided into four groups. Forward communities (FC) are communities from caste and religion who do not qualify government of India reservation benefits; Backward Communities (BC)‚ Scheduled Castes (SC)‚ and Scheduled Tribes (ST) were the underprivileged groups. D.r Br. Ambedkar introduced the reservation and preferential
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