people migrating from rural dwellings to urban area in search of an earning‚ better education or may be due to environmental degradation in rural areas. Even‚ political conflicts‚ wars‚ and income disparities among and within regions may also be a motivating factor which results in migration whether international or national. Whatever may be the reasons‚ migration is a very common phenomenon nowadays in most of the cities. Recent studies reveal that the urban population is increasing day by day. Roughly
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Zapotec Civilization was mostly relevant during 200 BCE through 600 CE. This civilization was commonly known as “cloud people”. The area they lived in was South Mexico or mesoamerica‚ the valley of Oaxaca . One of the largest indigenous groups in the mexican state of Oaxaca‚ was the Zapotecs. They inhabited four main areas of Oaxaca. Those four main areas were Central Valley‚ Isthmus of Tehuantepec‚ Sierra region in the North‚ and Southern Coastal Mountain area‚ Sierra de Miahuatlan. Religious
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safe cities through different urban planner’s visions It is known that safe cities are related by their design‚ besides they provide a sense of security for those who inhabit there. According to the urban planners‚ there are several proposals and different manners to design safe cities such as crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). Despite there are vast amounts ideas to design a safe metropolis‚ all them have flaws in terms of crime. Therefore the urban planners decided to approach
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Cities 26 (2009) 81–92 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cities journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cities A GIS analysis of the impact of modern practices and polices on the urban heritage of Irbid‚ Jordan Sharaf Al-kheder a‚*‚ Naif Haddad a‚ Leen Fakhoury b‚ Suha Baqaen c a The Hashemite University‚ P.O. Box 150459‚ Zarqa 13115‚ Jordan The University of Jordan‚ Jordan c Consolidated Consultants Engineering and Environment‚ P.O. Box 830746‚ Amman 11183‚ Jordan b
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A REPORT ON HOW TO HANDLE MAJOR ISSUES IN THE URBAN STUDIES MODULE PREPARED FOR: HEAD OF GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF EDUCATION PREPARED BY: FRANCES SIMWINGA (STAFF ASSOCIATE) 25TH SEPTEMBER‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION The report was called to explain how major issues would be handled in the Urban Studies module. It provides a brief summary of topics to be covered and questions. TOPIC ONE: URBAN SETTLEMENTS AND THE PROCESS OF URBANISATION‚ PROBLEM
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illustrate their role in urban change. Introduction The correlation between productions of built environment‚ human activities and the change of urban development has long been a hot topic in Hong Kong. It requires a complex decision making process‚ which includes political‚ economic and social concerns‚ in the urban planning. In this essay‚ I am going to study the roles of the major actors involved in the production of built environment and how their decisions result in Hong Kong’s urban changes. Built
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For Solid Waste Management In Rural Urban Relations- A Case In Sisdol Landfill Site | Term Paper on Rural Urban linkages | Sujata Shrestha | Background Rural-urban interaction can be defined as linkages across space such as flows of people‚ good‚ money‚ information and wastes and linkages between sectors such as agriculture‚ services‚ etc. Rural urban relation is a fundamental element of regional development. The balance rural urban linkages strongly and mutually supports
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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
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“civilized” and “uncivilized” 1. Indus vs. Aryans • Note: Harappan civilization same as Indus • Historical Significance 1. Indus discovered to British in the 1840s (ruins knew earlier by locals) 2. British used Indus brick in railroad construction 3. Increasing interest in increases 4. Discovery of seals with writing intensifies interest 5. Harappa “discovered” in 1920s 6. They said it’s a “new”/ just discovered civilization even though locals‚ everyone knew about it for years • Geography
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Asian 225 : Indus Valley Civilization and Hinduism The origins of Hinduism‚ centered on the relationship between Hinduism and the Indus Valley civilization‚ have always been fiercely debated amongst historians and scholars. The Indus Valley civilization flourished from around 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE (Flood‚ pg 23). However‚ without written records of this prehistoric civilization‚ we are unable to make accurate claims about the religious practices of this civilization. The people of the Indus Valley
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