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    growing cities in the world. Urban sprawl is becoming the subject of analysis through modern decades concerning the management of urban growth. It described the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into rural areas‚ following the outward expansion of cities; it is believed that the city of Dubai has followed this method. Each city has shaped its own settlement patterns over time‚ either through the oldest and most widely quoted models in urban studies which are those of Burgess

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    Rural sociology studies the village and urban sociology deals with the city. The city life depends on the village and what it produces. Similarly‚ the village is very much influenced by the city. Due to the pressures from within and attractions from outside people are flocking towards the cities from the villages. The economic necessity and social deficiency are ‘pushing’ the people out of the village‚ while the attractions of the city are ‘pulling’ them towards their centres. This has resulted

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    Urban Heat Island Analysis

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    Many urban centers have been known to be places where diverse styles of structural development are put in place through individual differences‚ desires and expression of wealth which over the time have brought about the use of series of finished construction materials. The constant increase in the rate of urban development‚ the use of materials and some of the construction style; have their contributing impact on the environment. These impacts of “growth in urban areas affects urban climate in several

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    Urban Form and Sense of Security Kenny P. Joy URP0910 Prof. Rameshwar P.V.K Urban Form and Space April 18‚ 2012 URBAN FORM & SENSE OF SECURITY Paper on: Urban form and sense of security : A review Kenny P. Joy Student of Urban design‚ CEPT University‚ Ahmedabad Abstract: The paper essentially deals with sense of security in the context of urban space and its relation with urban form. The study examines the sense of security in public spaces and the factors that determine it.

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    Project 1 Issue history and Origin Urban sprawl is a concept that creates zones called suburbs that spread beyond the outskirts of a city. Urban sprawl is characterized by a low-density auto-dependent development of once rural land and it transforms the land into suburbs and suburbs include various design features that make the suburbs car dependent. Urban sprawl belongs to a larger class of American development in general and urban sprawl has many parts including housing subdivisions‚ strip

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    School of Civil Engineering Geotechnical Implications of Urban Greening March 2013 Geotechnical Implications of Urban Greening March 2013 Report prepared by (Joshua Webb) As part of the MEng research project 2012/13 The material in this report was prepared as part of the M.Eng. course in Civil Engineering and should not be published without the permission of The University of Birmingham. The University of Birmingham accepts no responsibility for the statements made in this document

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    Urban legend is commonly seen as one of the most important and versatile forms of verbal folklore as its applications can be synthesized by anyone anywhere. In my research paper I will be diving deeper into an urban legend local to my hometown of Mahopac‚NY. This urban legend is the legend of “Oniontown”‚ a supposed haven for “In-breds” and “mutants” this town features people who will do anything to remove outsiders from their secretive community. The legend of Oniontown plays off of several aspects

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    Difference between rural and urban rural areas are settled places outside towns and cities. they can have an agricultural character‚though many rural areas are based on natural gas‚ petroleum‚ etc... rural areas are less modern and open than urban areas. people there are probably more attached to there traditions and beliefs.we dont usually see the society moving‚ and i mean by that‚ seeing the populationg chaging habits‚ accepting other cultures and adopting some‚ etc. however we do found in

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    rural areas to big cities is called urbanization. There are two kinds of factors why rural people seek for urban life. The first one is urban pull factor. They dream for higher wages‚ better housing and utilities‚ better school and hospital‚ more jobs opportunity‚ and more experience that they can get it all from a living in big cities as they think. The second one is urban push factor. We know that most of rural areas people are farmers. There’s not much else to do anymore in the village

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    in peri-urban areas Bryant et al. (1982) in an attempt to show why there is an uneven land use development in peri-urban areas‚ noted that urban development may not occur around all urban centres in all directions‚ due to variations in societal response to changes within the surrounding areas of a particular city. This makes the peri-urban areas a disjointed (irregular) spatial occurrence in metropolitan regions. According to the PLUREL Project (2006)‚ the problem of this uncontrolled urban sprawl

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