Sociology 240- Ethnography Assignment 2 1 October 10‚ 2012 5:00pm- 5:40 pm New York Public Transit A train This paper will serve to report my observation on the New York City public transportation letter A train line. I see that a lot of people have headphones in their ears‚ reading magazines‚ reading books‚ newspapers and on their phones. The guy sitting next to me to my right is reading‚ had headphones in his ears and is casually dressed. There is a guy with a red sweater who is standing
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Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) – Urban Infrastructure and Governance Leveraging JnNURM Funds by ULBs A study on leveraging of funds in JNNURM projects - select mission cities Ministry of Urban Development Government of India 1. Evolving Urbanisation Scenario in India The urban population in India has crossed 320 million and is estimated to grow to 583 million by 2031. The share of urban population stood at 27.8% in 2001 and is estimated to
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Causes and Effects of Uncontrolled Urbanization If you are an urban dweller‚ you may know the real meaning of urbanization. However‚ this does not always indicate your sufficient insight in the “uncontrolled urbanization” topic too. To form a causal chain‚ it is right to say that more jobs‚ more services in the urban side and absence of land in the countryside force people to migrate to larger cities which brings about uncontrolled urbanization. As a result‚ some problems arise such as
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residents. This is not the whole story‚ however. There are also many positive effects of urbanisation: improving housing conditions‚ better amenities and services‚ and higher living standards. Yet these benefits are often ignored in the literature on urban environmental issues in developing countries. As argued in this chapter‚ the selective impact that one can observe there depends to a large degree on the type of settlement‚ the socio-economic position of the population‚ and people’s occupations. This
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29 Palms Land: The new opportunities zone We see today that urban life has covered all possible spaces within the habitable territories. It has been a great advantage that large cities have been established‚ providing shelter and development opportunities for a good part of population (infrastructure‚ business‚ commerce‚ education‚ healthness‚ a wide range of leisures)‚ and facilities for good performance of daily activities‚ such as public services (water‚ sewers‚ electricity‚ gas‚ telephony and
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urbanization is based on the fact that urban areas tend to have a higher concentration of jobs for the more skilled laborers and professionals. Since most rural areas usually lack many employment opportunities‚ the people that make up rural populations migrate to urban areas in search of better opportunities; now developing countries go away from economies based mainly on agriculture. As more people move from farms and villages‚ urban growth occurs. Urban trend growths appear to be the same for
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following the initiation of the reform and opening policy. By the end of 2012‚ the mainland of the People’s Republic of China had a total urban population of 712 million or 52.6% of the total population‚ rising from 26% in 1990.[1] In the long term‚ China faces increasing urbanization; according to predictions‚ nearly 70% of the population will live in urban areas by 2035.[2][citation needed] Over the next two decades China will build 20‚000 to 50‚000 new skyscrapers and more than 170 cities will
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Urban Sprawl The idea of urban sprawls is one that interests economists. An urban sprawl is the spreading of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city. In the article‚ “Urban Sprawl” by Thomas J. Nechyba and Randall P. Walsh‚ the authors talk about the advantages and disadvantages of urban sprawls. They also explain the consequences of inner-city and suburbs after the urban sprawls have occurred. The problems of urban sprawls are the un-productive congestion of roads‚ high levels of metropolitan
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new pre-industrial areas. People that used to lived on farming and cattle raising moved to those urbans areas because they were considered profitable places. Urban people began trading with entrepeneurs and merchants who came from the New World and East Indies and who invested in voyages of exploration to Turkey‚ Russia and Africa. Merchants were ambitious about trading new luxurious goods and urban people longed for new ways of increasing their profits. The trading activity resulted in many people
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Throughout the 1920s and ‘30s Urban populations augmented greatly in Cities (rather than living on farms)‚ affecting jobs‚ transportation‚ housing which have many positives effects during this time‚ but also many negative effects changing life during this time period. During the 1920s urbanization was becoming about impacting lives of many citizens and noncitizens living in America. For the first time more people were living in cities than farms‚ especially immigrants. When immigrants were coming
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