Urban areas of the future present the greatest challenges and opportunities to people. Discuss. Introduction 3% of land surface on the earth is covered by urban areas‚ and more than half the world’s population live in urban areas. 100 years ago‚ only 20% of people lived in urban areas‚ and today the number is continually rising past 50%. However‚ with an increasing number of people taking up residence in ever expanding cities‚ towns and villages‚ problems in urban areas are growing more serious
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Different solutions to poverty in urban areas 1. Introduction: Poverty can be defined in two ways‚ which are absolute poverty and relative poverty. In terms of absolute poverty‚ Murray (2004:2) suggests that the lack of an adequate income and cannot gain access to basic necessities to provide for basic human needs-food‚ clothing‚ warmth and shelter- are a clear indication of poverty. In a relative way‚ there was an assumption that a certain standard of living was normal‚ and that those living below
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Five economic problems and five social problems of the philippines? social: 1. lack of individualism. don’t need to abandon social structures totally. 2. colonial mentality. royalty‚ status symbols‚ subservience 3. western influence. don’ love their own 4. parinig system 5. authoritarian economic: 1. leaders are mostly landowners who don’t know how to make a profit 2. consumers are lured by too many commercial establishments like KFC‚ McDo‚ Jollibee‚ Levis‚ etc. even those who cannot really
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between political ideologies and urban form in 20th century Berlin Berlin has developed over 800 years and has undergone major changes. It is the place where German unification‚ after 40 years of separation‚ becomes apparent and this provides us with an excellent location for studying urban processes. The twentieth century saw different political ideologies impose themselves onto the city and I will use certain political ideologies and explain the impact they had on urban form. I will use these examples
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the publicly traded American company‚ Urban Outfitters‚ Inc‚ that has recently been a target for debate concerning their association with factories overseas that do not exhibit good labor standards. It has further raised the question as to what policies and consumer choices companies such as Urban Outfitter Inc. can partake in to improve the issue. As the consumer demand began to
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FOOD PROBLEMS IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: 1 imports of foodgrains—no solution. 3. Problem not so much natural as human. 4. Inordinate growth of population— the major contributory factor. 5. Low productivity and the factors responsible for it. 6. Administrative inefficiency and organisational weakness. 7. Artificial scarcity and price rise created by the tradesmen. 8. Grow more or produce more is not the only solution. 9. Change in mode of food consumption and other effective measures to Check the
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Urban bias exists when the overall economic development of a country is restricted or hindered by the urban-dwellers that are more able to pressure and manipulate the government and can do so to their own advantage. Wikipedia describes urban bias as “a political economy argument according to which economic development is hampered by groups who‚ by their central location in urban areas‚ are able to pressure governments to protect their interests”. The theory of urban bias stems from the Urban
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functions performed by the family include‚ reproduction of new members and socializing them‚ and provision of emotional and physical care for older persons and young. Family in fact‚ is an institution which resolves or eases a large number of social problems. The term family had been defined by various sociologists and anthropologists. Murdock (1949)‚ after studying over 250 multi-cultural societies defines family as a “social group characterized by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction
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The urban population boom from 1860-1900‚ it marked a dramatic shift in the United States from its traditional rural‚ to the new city lifestyle. The accepted fourteen million immigrants flooded in‚ ranging in all variations of ethnic backgrounds. From the English to the Russians‚ and all those in between‚ the many immigrants sought to escape problems ranging from poverty‚ warfare‚ political and religious persecution and natural disasters that plagued their homeland. With the arrival of the newcomers
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The urban environment impact on human health with particular emphasis on cities in developing countries. Introduction The city may be looked at as a story‚ pattern of relations between human groups‚ a production and distribution space‚ a field of physical force‚ a set of linked decisions‚ or an arena of conflict (Lynch‚ 1981). Simeone (2005) argues that urban Africans have long made lives that have worked. There has been an astute capacity to use thickening fields of social relations‚ however
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