11 Patronage of Local Cinema Halls among Urban Youths in Ado Ekiti‚ Southwest Nigeria Babatunde Joshua Omotosho Introduction and Statement of Problem Globally‚ urban areas are noted for the provision of social and public spaces in terms of education‚ energy supply‚ leisure‚ recreation facilities in order to make life conducive for the urban dwellers. Nigerians are deprived of these facilities in urban centres due to poverty and failure to maintain the existing ones‚ among other reasons. However
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people move to urban centres in search of jobs and what they hope will be a better life. In most countries the percentage of the total population living in urban areas is increasing. In a number of small countries‚ such as Guadeloupe‚ Monaco‚ and Bermuda‚ 100 percent of the population lives in urban centres. On the other extreme‚ several of Africa’s poorest countries have an urban population of less than 10 percent of their total. Canada‚ with 79 percent of its population in urban centres‚ ranks
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walking down Chowringhee. We dare not see what is really going on.” -Lee Siegel‚ Net of Magic (p. 426) | Table of Contents Introduction 3 The Magicians’ Ghetto 5 Moving Slums: Urban Renewal or Urban Removal? 7 Memories of Urban Removal: Moving Slums as Spatial Morphology 12 Magical Urbanism and Urban Metis 14 Conclusion 16 References 17 introduction Figure [ 1 ]: location of kathputli colony Kathputli Colony is located very close to Shadipur Depot which is one of the main
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it was clearly recognized what kind of transition has just happened and is still going on. That was the time when cities in Ruhr area started forming their new policies‚ concentrated on revitalization programs‚ because they were hit by an enormous urban decline. Duisburg and all eleven Ruhr cities‚ as the data in Table 1 indicates‚ had the most problems in coping with the decline of its economic base. Major Ruhr companies had branches in this area‚ the most important one being Haniel. With the decline
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overcrowding‚ poor or informal housing‚ inadequate access to safe water and sanitation‚ and insecurity of tenure.” (Davis 2007:23) There is has been a rapid growth of urban cities over the last couple of years and people are migrating out of rural areas and into these cities sometimes bring poverty along with them creating urban slums. There are many slums on earth and most of them are located in the Third World countries although there are a select few in the United States as well. Slums can cause
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theme but many sub-themes that go on throughout the whole story. As I read the play‚ Hamlet‚ I was filled with many images that sparked my imagination and was mostly dark and dreadful. The imagery of disease‚ corruption‚ and decay contributes to the theme of death‚ and decay. The aura of tragedy is present from the beginning to the end of the play; the only slight reprieve of the dark mood comes in the Gravediggers’ scene‚ but even the comedy of this scene is morbid. The play immediately starts out
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Introduction Urbanization is exponentially growing in the world while rural living is decreasing; over half the world’s population lives in a urban areas (MeyerLindenberg‚ 2015). Urban being defined as an constantly builtup area with 50‚000 or more residents with at least 1‚000 residents per square miles as defined by the United States Census. Urbanized living is accompanied by many risk factors that are common to the development of mental health issues and disorders (Carol Strike‚ Paula Goering
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two decades‚ as a response to suburbanization‚ uncontrolled urban growth‚ and global warming‚ several concepts on urbanism and urban design have surfaced. These include New Urbanism‚ Transit Oriented Developments (TODs)‚ Planned Unit Developments (PUDs)‚ and very recently‚ Sustainable Urban Design. New Urbanism is a European influenced planning paradigm started in the United States in the late 1980s by a group of Architects and Urban Designers led by Andres Duany and Peter Calthorpe‚ to address
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Battle for Place: Urban regeneration and planning in the Liberties/Coombe area “There is a district in Dublin that possesses many remarkable and peculiar features. It is still called the Liberties and derives its name from certain privileges and immunities enjoyed by the inhabitants having manor courts of their own‚ and seneschals to preside in them.” * Mr and Mrs Hall during their tour of Ireland “Urbanization is one of the most important geographic phenomena” (Knox & Marston‚ 2011)
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led to the development of new urban spaces which had wildly varying levels of success. New partnerships between businesses and government agencies resulted in legislation that had a variety of positive and negative effects on different populations. Architects strived to create new methods of housing the middle and lower classes affordably and comfortably‚ attempting to simultaneously mimic the advantages of suburban life while maintaining the character of an urban setting. These projects certainly
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