that are classified as urban. In developing countries‚ a substantial and growing proportion lives in or around metropolitan areas and large cities‚ including the zone termed the ’peri-urban interface ’‚ where their livelihoods depend to some extent on natural resources such as land for food‚ water and fuel‚ and space for living. The population pressure means that resources in such zones are often overexploited. Although heterogeneous in its social composition‚ the peri-urban interface (PUI) constitutes
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The American Ghetto To an extent Ghetto’s have always existed within the United States. Beginning with the Five Points Area of New York City in the late 18th century every city in the United States has had neighborhoods where the poor‚ the recent immigrant‚ the desperate‚ and the criminal have made their homes. However; it was only in the late 19th century that the systematic poverty in the ghetto and related problems such as‚ alcohol and drug abuse‚ child abuse and neglect‚ spousal abuse‚ and crime
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Ghettos‚ 1910-1970 After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed‚ most of the black population scattered to find their families and friends. About ninety percent of African Americans lived in the confederacy and around 1970 more than fifty percent lived outside of the south. Millions of African Americans sought to escape poverty in the south by moving to Northern cities where they hoped to find better lives‚ also seeking bigger opportunity and racial tolerance. Most of the migrants
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Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the increasing number of people that live in urban areas. It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas‚ be it horizontal or vertical. The United Nations projected that half of the world ’s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.[1] By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively will be urbanized.[2] Urbanization is closely linked to modernization‚ industrialization‚ and the
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In chapter eight‚ “The Future of the Ghetto” in American Apartheid‚ Nancy Denton and Douglas Massey argue that residential segregation is a threat to society’s well-being because of its social‚ political‚ and economic consequences. As a result‚ the authors call for structural change and the creation of regulations along with the overall understanding that segregation is detrimental to all‚ to sustain a desegregated society. The authors begin by addressing the problems with how race and class are
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With reference to examples‚ discuss the degree to which the level od economic development in country affects planning and management in urban areas. The type of urban problems that require careful planning and management are largely decided by the economic wealth of a countryside. LEDC countries have problems with rapid urbanisation into the cities. However‚ on the other hand the problems that MEDC countries face include; suburbanisation‚ counter urbanisation. Urbanisation is the process in
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stand against evil.” If he actually said it‚ he flew in the face of his own masterpiece‚ which is a testimony to none of those things. In the Warsaw ghetto‚ the power of music‚ the will to live and the courage to stand against evil added up to very little‚ and The Pianist has the wherewithal to respect that sad fact and make sense of it. In the Warsaw ghetto‚ what counted was luck‚ and the luck had to be very good. The odds were almost impossible to beat. For the Nazis‚ that was the whole idea. To sum
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The only time a problem in the ghetto gets addressed is when a cop murders a black male. Which by the way “every 28 hours a African American is killed by a security officer” according to alternet.com. Police brutality is a very big problem in ghettos all around the world. “Although black men make up only 6% of the U.S. population‚ they account for for 40% of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year” according to WashingtonPost.com.The officer that committed the murder usually gets just a
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Int J Biometeorol (2010) 54:75–84 DOI 10.1007/s00484-009-0256-x ORIGINAL PAPER The urban heat island and its impact on heat waves and human health in Shanghai Jianguo Tan & Youfei Zheng & Xu Tang & Changyi Guo & Liping Li & Guixiang Song & Xinrong Zhen & Dong Yuan & Adam J. Kalkstein & Furong Li & Heng Chen Received: 17 December 2008 / Revised: 29 July 2009 / Accepted: 3 August 2009 / Published online: 1 September 2009 # ISB 2009 Abstract With global warming forecast to continue
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Ghettos are often associated with crime‚ poverty‚ and cruelty‚ but it doesn’t have to be. The real definition is a minority living in an area such as Chinatown‚ Manhattan. But‚ with our prejudice opinions‚ we have towards the inhabitants and the area we create a new definition. Instead‚ we should reform our personal definition of a ghetto and not let our behaviors or actions affect the inhabitants. “Ghetto” just means a minority inhabiting a small area‚ but the way people react to the term proves
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