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    International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences ISSN: 2278-6236 RURALISATION OF URBAN AREAS: REVERSING DEVELOPMENT IN ZIMBABWE Jacob Mugumbate* Francis Maushe* Chamunogwa Nyoni‚ PhD* Abstract: Urbanisation is on an upward trend in Zimbabwe as evidenced by expansion of urban centres. Notwithstanding advances towards urbanisation‚ some urban centres are actually de-urbanising or ruralising as witnessed by deteriorating livelihoods‚ services and infrastructure

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    segregation and urban renewal. Poverty has become more concentrated in high poverty and disadvantage neighborhoods. Overpopulation of urban areas have led to several problems which come with challenges that negatively affect not only the people but the areas surrounding those neighborhoods. Concentrated poverty shapes everything from higher crime rates to education and health issues.The combination of this barriers restricts those growing up and living in this communities from

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    Inner City Decline of One Urban Area After the industrial revolution people became increasingly affluent. This led to social segregation – rich move out of inner city suburbs. People left in the inner city: * Older residents * Single parent families * Students * Poorer families * Ethnic minorities left behind – formation of ghettos. Decentralisation increases the problem: Movement of businesses out of inner city – unemployment – Dead Heart. Removal of businesses causes

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    WAT E R M A N A G E M E N T F O R U R B A N R E S I L I E N C E Adapting to climate change: water management for urban resilience MIKE MULLER Mike Muller is a civil engineer by training and at present is Adjunct Professor at the School of Public and Development Management at the University of Witwatersrand. He was Director General of the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry from 1997 to 2005‚ and worked for the Mozambican government from 1979 to 1988. He was a member of

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    STUDY ON POTENTIAL USES OF RAINWATER HARVESTING IN URBAN AREAS Thamer Ahmed Mohammed‚ Megat Johari Megat Mohd. Noor‚ Abdul Halim Ghazali Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering University Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang‚ Selangor‚ Malaysia e-mail:thamer@eng.upm.edu.my Abstract Rainwater harvesting is the collection of water volume from raindrops. Rainwater harvesting has been the main source of water supply for potable and non-potable uses in the old days because the water conveyance

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    Short essay |!|ES04001|!| What are the causes of deterioration of air quality in inner urban areas? How can the air quality in inner urban areas be improved through urban planning and transport development? (12 marks) ## |Causes |4 | |Explain: |urban planning |4 | | |transport development |4 | Suggested answer: |Introduction

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    construction site at urban area. 2.1 Problem statement Nowadays we can see that Malaysia is becoming develop country in a few more years. Because of that we can see lots of development especially at the city centre or urban area. Each state is having faster growth of development. As for example‚ we can see lots of high rise building in Kuala Lumpur‚ beside that there are still new development on going near to this city centre. New development will cause new problem to the surrounding area. When the

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    DESIGN OF E-HEALTH SYSTEMS FOR RURAL AND URBAN AREAS ABSTRACT Telemedicine is the use of information technology to deliver medical services and information from one location to another. The evolution and growth of telemedicine is highly correlated with the developments in communication technology and IT software development. Health services was degraded not only in rural areas‚ but also‚ in the big cities because of the migration of doctors‚ especially‚ specialist doctors. There is a great

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    management in urban areas. (40 Marks) There are many examples of countries around the world which show examples of hashed and perfect planning and management in urban areas. However there are many variables that affect the difference in which the planning is done across the globe. By 2007 the percentage of the world’s population living in cities was 50 percent‚ and rising with most of the mega cities in LDC’s it is becoming increasingly important to forward plan and manage urban areas to the upmost

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    government needs to modify standardized tests.In this essay I will discuss the needs to modify standardized tests.The needs are students spend too much time on the tests ‚ the tests are stressful ‚ and the tests are low quality. In this paragraph I will explain the needs to modify standardized tests because students spend too much time on tests.Students spend 23% of class time doing standardized testing.The 23% is just testing

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