Summary of: How Urban Myths Reveal Society’s Fears By Neal Gabler Urban Legends; secondhand stories about something horrific‚ iconic‚ or even magical‚ that are told to us in a way that makes them very believable‚ even though the contents of the stories may not truly be backed with any tangible proof. Urban legends tend to capture our imaginations. In his essay‚ which was first published in the Los Angeles Times in 1995‚ Neal Gabler presents the question as to “why are we so willing to believe
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4 PLANNING FOR URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE Olivier Toutain and S. Gopiprasad URBAN PLANNING: THE ISSUES INVOLVED U rban India today‚ faces serious challenges of growth and its management. Across geographies‚ the issues of urbanization manifest in the form of overcrowding‚ congestion‚ insufficient infrastructure‚ inadequate service provisioning—mainly in terms of drinking water‚ sanitation‚ energy‚ transport‚ solid waste management‚ environmental degradation‚ and pollution‚ etc. These‚ along with the
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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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III. Benefits of the model Burgess described the changing spatial patterns of residential areas as a process of "invasion" and "succession" . As the city grew‚ Burgess also observed that the CBD would cause it to expand outwards; this in turn forced the other rings to expand outwards as well. More recently sub-business centers have grown up in outlying zones. Burgess indicated that “the Chicago of yesterday‚ an agglomeration of country towns and immigrant colonies‚ is under-going a process of
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Should Country Parks be Rezoned as Built-up Areas? Do you want to live in a bigger housing unit? The living space per capita in Hong Kong is 161 square feet. People who are single in Hong Kong need to spend 30 years awaiting a public housing. Hong Kong has 24% of land was developed‚ while the residential use accounted for 7% of the total land area of Hong Kong. This means 7 million population need to accommodate in this 7% of land. Do you want to give Hong Kong economy a boost? The gross domestic
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cities which offer more resources and education. However‚ rural area also has indispensable characters. In this essay‚ I will show you three differences between urban and rural areas based on my personal experience. Contrast Between Urban and Rural Areas After entering the college‚ I have broadened my insights about the world by contacting with urban areas and thereby observing a number of differences between cities and rural areas. As a child growing up in a primitive rural village‚ I was told to
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character values this could have an impact on lowering the crime rate. In my research on crime in urban areas versus crime in the suburban areas; I predict that people who live in urban areas will have a much higher crime rate than those living in suburban areas. Poverty is crime’s chief messenger in the United States. Studies have found that poverty‚ not race‚ is responsible for high crime rates in urban communities. This was revealed in a study completed by an Ohio State University research team that
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Surface area and Lateral surface area of Polyhedrons LSA or Lateral Surface Area refers to the sum of the areas of all the faces of a three-dimensional figure‚ excluding its bases. SA or Surface Area- refers to the sum of the areas of all the faces of a three-dimensional figure. It also referred to as the Total Surface Area (TSA). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Rectangular Prism LSA= P(h) *where P=perimeter of the base ; h= measurement of the height SA= 2B+ LSA *where B= area of the
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The urban environment impact on human health with particular emphasis on cities in developing countries. Introduction The city may be looked at as a story‚ pattern of relations between human groups‚ a production and distribution space‚ a field of physical force‚ a set of linked decisions‚ or an arena of conflict (Lynch‚ 1981). Simeone (2005) argues that urban Africans have long made lives that have worked. There has been an astute capacity to use thickening fields of social relations‚ however
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characteristics on residential choice making: Implication to urban transit planning in Port Harcourt‚ Nigeria. SURV (DR) chima OGBA DR inah OKON Geoid & Envt’l Services Ltd Geography/Regional Planning #11 Owuchekwa Str‚ Rumuomasi‚ University of Calabar‚ Port Harcourt‚ Rivers State PMB 1115 Calabar‚ CRS. chimaogba@yahoo.com inah.okon@yahoo.com 2348039675438 2348034126049 Key words: Land use‚ residential choice making‚ urban transit‚ and traffic congestion. Abstract In
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