generations‚ and allowing the neighborhood around to thrive with it. Jane Jacobs‚ an American-Canadian journalist‚ author‚ and activist‚ was best known for her influence on urban studies and new and more modern layouts of cities. Her prominent book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961) posed the argument that urban renewal did not take into consideration the needs of the majority of city folk‚ and introduced the concepts of sociology such as "eyes on the street" and "social capital"
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The Future of Extremism in Pakistan A Twenty Year Forward Look to 2028 Jan Consulting is a Private Limited Company registered in England and Wales www.jan-consulting.com Jan Consulting VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN PAKISTAN “Extremism” is politically loaded term that can mean different things to different people Refers to ideas/mindsets that are assumed to be rejected by vast majority of people in a particular society Connotes illegitimacy of those views Can be associated with violent
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Brittani Robbins Mr. Audler- BUS 409 March 11‚ 2008 Wal-Mart and It’s Urban Expansion Strategy Problems: 1. Immigration and customs raided Wal-Mart and found many problems 2. Media reported many problems 3. It was named the largest class action lawsuit 4. Activists and Union leaders criticized it for its low wages and low prices that put pressure on competitors/ 5. became a political symbol as Democratic candidates criticized it for health benefits 6. History of opposing unionization
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Diabetes and Urban Sprawl Analysis In the video series Designing Healthy Communities‚ Richard Jackson‚ MD‚ MPH examines the connection between Type II Diabetes and urban sprawl. Analyzing the information in the video will provide a critique of the message delivered‚ in addition to determining its value towards improving public health. This will be done by summarizing the video‚ relating the information presented in the video to other resources‚ critiquing the presentation and value of the information
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English 100 July 21‚ 2010 Race Senna grew up in an urban chaos‚ in a home filled with artists and political activists. Her mother married a tall handsome black man. The former was being rebellious against her mother‚ an Irish woman‚ who still believed in noble bloodline. The grandmother spent most of the days passing judgment on the world. There was already a conflict between her grandkids; they were all mixed. Senna longed to know her grandmother and to love her. The latter was an alcoholic;
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Crime in Urban America has been around for many years‚ it is atrocious and there are many reasons why people commit these crimes. Crime is a big issue all around the world and while there is more production of drugs and loss of jobs‚ the crime rate will continue to increase day by day. While there are many motives that contribute to crime the most obvious causes would be poverty which causes the poor to adapt into a violent and aggressive behavior to which later becomes ingrained into them. The environment
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How is the idea of globality relevant to a critical understanding of urban education? * Introduction: This essay explores an array of issues related to globalisation and urban education. These include the understanding of globalisation‚ how globalisation has helped shape the current education system‚ globalisation and its effect on culture and race in context to education‚ and whether the impacts of globalization differ depending on the initial conditions in a country or educational system
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Urban child protection: A study on project area of Plan (Dhalpur) Introduction: Plan has been working in Bangladesh since 18 years. Globally it has 8 thematic areas. The areas are education‚ disaster risk management‚ child participation‚ child protection‚ economic security‚ sexual and reproductive health‚ water and sanitation. According to plan every child has equal rights on education‚ even in the time of disaster. Plan also emphasizes on child participation‚ child protection. Plan is now working
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Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers‚ such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler‚ have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired to 10 percent of families across the entire United States) and that the probability of being victimized
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Howley‚ Craig B. and Erik Gunn. 2003. “Research about Mathematics Achievement in the Rural Circumstance.” Journal of Research in Rural Education 18(2):86-95. Hu‚ Shouping. 2003. “Educational Aspirations and Postsecondary Access and Choice: Students in Urban‚ Suburban‚ and Rural Schools Compared.” Education Policy Analysis Archives 11(14). Retrieved March 3‚ 2010 (http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n14/). Kao‚ Grace and Jennifer S. Thompson. 2003. “Racial and Ethnic Stratification in Educational Achievement and
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