"Urban areas have a significant impact on climatic characteristics" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 2 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN URBAN AREA (A CASE STUDY OF ILESA ROUNDABOUT) BY OYELAMI MARTINS KAYODE MATRIC NO 06 / CEH/ 0116 THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING OSUN STATE POLYTECHNIC‚ IREE‚ OSUN STATE. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA (HND) IN CIVIL ENGINEERING JULY 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost‚ my special gratitude goes to God Almighty‚ The Alpha and the omega‚ The unchangeable changer

    Premium Road Parking Traffic

    • 7580 Words
    • 31 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    close proximity to public lands‚ serve as an entry point to public lands‚ and have an economic influence of public lands. For example‚ gateway communities include towns within the proximity of national and state forests‚ monuments‚ refuges‚ grasslands‚ wild and scenic river corridors‚ lakeshores‚ and parks. Tourists and visitors use these communities as gateways to such parks. Kurtz (2010) mentioned that gateway communities have characteristically relied on “relatively few or even a single source to drive

    Premium Tourism World Tourism Organization Economics

    • 1461 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Introduction It is African Americans and Hispanics from the ages of 16-24 who live in urban areas tend to commit more crimes rather than those ethnicity males in rural areas because of their lifestyle. Minorities who live in urban areas tend to follow what they see and believe that it is acceptable to hang out on the streets and commit robberies. They believe the deviant acts they commit are normal. Rural areas like Orange County‚ NY are filled with African American and Hispanics around the same

    Premium Crime Criminology City

    • 3875 Words
    • 16 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Decentralisation of retail and other services is killing central urban areas. Discuss with references to areas you have studied. (40 marks) The decentralisation of retail and other services has had a major impact on urban areas. Over time shopping has changed from high streets filled with different types of shops and services selling only one type of product such as electronics or food in the 1970s. To the 2000s in which we can buy anything we want all under one roof. Shopping has become a day out

    Premium City Urban area Sociology

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Topic An analysis of the “Impacts of water rationing on public health”: Case study of Makokoba‚ Bulawayo Introduction Zimbabwe local governance is made up of a system of city councils and municipalities which are mandated to provide water and sanitation services and goods to their respective residents. This system has been effective during the colonial era where the urban areas were less populated than there are at the present moment. The Zimbabwe post-independence period has seen a large influx

    Premium Water supply Water Population

    • 837 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    To what extent do urban areas modify their climate? Urban areas climate is often significantly different to the surrounding rural areas‚ this is why urban areas are often described as having their own “micro climate” the differences in urban climates are due to number of different factors. Urban areas often experience a phenomenon known as a heat island‚ this is a zone of hot air around and above an urban area which has higher temperatures than the surrounding rural areas consequently cities tend

    Premium City Air pollution Pollution

    • 1008 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    big cities. This migration from rural areas to big cities is called urbanization. There are two kinds of factors why rural people seek for urban life. The first one is urban pull factor. They dream for higher wages‚ better housing and utilities‚ better school and hospital‚ more jobs opportunity‚ and more experience that they can get it all from a living in big cities as they think. The second one is urban push factor. We know that most of rural areas people are farmers. There’s not much else

    Premium Poverty City Urban area

    • 1743 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Urbanization is the process by which people living in the rural areas shift to the urban areas in order to find a better life. Since medieval times people have been migrating to the places where resources are in abundance. This process is being in witnessed all over the world‚ and many consider it to be bad thing. Some even regard urbanization to be a “Modern Disease”. Before embarking in to any conclusion I would like to see both the aspects of the topic. The shift or movement to the city creates

    Free City Urban area

    • 364 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Rapid changes in diets and lifestyles that have occurred with urbanization‚ economic development and market globalization have accelerated over the past decade. These changes affect the health status of populations‚ particularly in developed countries and undeveloped countries. Healthy lifestyle is defined as a habit which helps us live in fit‚ energetic‚ and at reduced risk for disease. Referring to the information by the United States Census Bureau (URCB)‚ 7.068 billion of human live on earth.

    Free Personal life Health Nutrition

    • 1125 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Urban Area Analysis Paper

    • 968 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Many times people are not aware of the urban issues in their neighborhoods. The field of Urban Sociology studies the interplay between social and spatial institutions. The general goal is to understand urban issues emerging in your own neighborhood and then compare it other areas. For my research‚ I developed different approaches to how I see my neighborhood and the changes that occur when diverse social groups mix. My analysis was based on Thornwood‚ New York‚ census tract 121.02 Thornwood is

    Premium City Urban area Suburb

    • 968 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50