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    Rural Urban Migration

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    Rural Urban Migration Aaapka Naam kya hai? Mera Naam “Bechaara” Hai Bechara ji..aap kahan jaa rahe ho? Mein apna gaon chod ke “Seher” Jaa raha Hoon Aap apna gaon chod ke seher kyun jaa rahe ho? Sahab jii…mein he kya…mere bahaut yaar dost jaa chuke hain..or ab mein bhi jaa raha hoon Lekin Kaaran toh bataoo….Bechara Ji Sahab jii…ek kaaran ho toh bataun…lekin aap zor de rahe ho toh sunoo.. Reasons for Rural-Urban Migration • Poverty/Low Income • • • • Unemployment Wage

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    Brunvand Urban Legend

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    In a book written by urban legend specialist Jan Brunvand‚ “The Vanishing Hitchhiker‚” there is a trilling chapter about the theme of contamination in different urban legends. Whether it is about food or body contamination‚ those legends of contagion have been in place for quite some time‚ but not always exactly in the same form. The way those legends are infiltrated in our culture can tell us a lot about their importance and their evolution. The two legends “Alligators in the sewers” and “Spider

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    Essay On Urban Sprawl

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    Urban sprawl‚ the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas‚ has slowed down by 9% since the 1990s (Borenstein). Urban sprawl was steadily increasing starting in 1920 due to new street construction and it peaked in 1994. Despite the belief that urban sprawl is the result of a healthy economic and social process‚ urban sprawl needs to be restricted and eventually stopped. Urban sprawl is rapidly expanding‚ destroying wildlife‚ and causing a rise in pollution and disease. Urban sprawl has come to be fairly

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    Urban Geography Terms

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    URBAN GEOGRAPHY TERMS Action space—The geographical area that contains the space an indivdual interacts with on a daily basis. Annexation—the process of legally adding land area to a city. Beaux arts—This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older‚ classical forms with newer‚ industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares‚ spacious parks‚ and civic monuments that stressed progress‚ freedom‚ and national unity. City

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    Mayan Civilization

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    The Mayan Civilization was once an Ancient Native American civilization which eventually expanded to become one of the most “cutting-edge”‚ developed civilizations in the Americas. Those that were part of this civilization were called the “Maya”. The Maya people lived in the eastern and southern areas of what we know today such as Mexico. They lived in regions of Guatemala‚ sections of El Salvador‚ the Belize and western parts of Honduras. The Maya people had constructed tremendous‚ gigantic pyramids

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    The Maya Civilization

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    The Maya civilization was developed by the Mayan people and was a Mesoamerican civilization. Maya Civilization resided in a large territory that included covering southeastern Mexico‚ northern Central America and all of the Yucatan Peninsula. Most of the area is covered in vast plains with few mountains and a low coastline. The Mayans were agriculture and worked on city construction‚ stone monuments‚ and building pyramids. They cultivated chili peppers‚ beans‚ sunflower sees‚ squashes‚ cacao‚ vanilla

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    What Is Urban Design

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    What is Urban Design? “The art of creating and shaping cities and towns...” The word design is used as a verb as well as a noun. It refers to the process and activity of designing as well as the end result and/or product. Much confusion takes place unless this clearly understood. The process The process of designing (certainly in urban design) has two aspects. One aspect is the process of making decisions and choices which directly affect the physical forms and qualities of a city or town. Those

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    The old civilizations of America were truly one of the most advanced and thriving civilizations the world has ever come to see. There is no wander that the Spanish colonizers were amazed at what they were seeing. They did not have technologies as advanced as the ones that had been develop in Europe. However they did have an intricate architecture‚ superior buildings‚ and great cultivation methods. Therefore the civilizations of the old America were magnificent and advanced civilizations. The Mayan

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    Inequality In Civilization

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    of a civilization‚ but that’s not why. Inequality is simply caused by geography. Geography affects the way a civilization becomes more developed compared to others because‚ geography controls climate which affects the type of food a civilization can grow‚ and what type of animals it can domesticate. Domesticated animals and efficient crops give a civilization time to develop new ideas and invent tools that can help the dominate other cultures. Geographic location affects how a civilization can

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    Alleviating Urban Blight

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    Alleviating Urban Blight Mariah Beatty-Adams Kent School of Social Work University of Louisville Urban Blight in Louisville Louisville is known for internationally for the annual derby‚ that the upper-class and wealthy attend as a group for recreation‚ and entertainment. It is a time that economically‚ that the city is in its element. Millions of dollars are spent on derby paraphernalia‚ horse paraphernalia and alcohol for the masses. The city is becomes a city that never sleeps.

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