In the United States‚ the top ten percent of all households own seventy-six percent of all the wealth in the country (1). Income inequality is frequently highlighted‚ but why is wealth inequality rarely brought to our attention? The political system has failed to deal with the problem‚ and the gap will only continue to grow in the future. How can we call this the land of opportunity when the bottom forty percent will most likely stay the bottom forty percent for their entire lives (1)? That is why
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power‚ there are more micro-level social and economic issues that have been exacerbated by this progression. The essence of the city has and always will be the people that inhabit it; how they live‚ work and interact should be the primary focus of any urban environment. Gentrification‚ social and economic stratification and even unjust organization of space are some of the most pressing problems that many cities are facing. Interestingly enough‚ depending on whom you ask‚ you could get an extremely positive
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Urban Morphology of Dhaka City: Spatial Dynamics of Growing City and the Urban Core Prof. Dr. Farida Nilufar Department of Architecture‚ Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Email: faridanilufar@yahoo.com [Paper presented on the International Seminar on The History‚ Heritage and Urban Issues of Capital Dhaka‚ on the occasion of the Celebration of 400 years of the Capital Dhaka‚ Organized by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh‚ 17-19 February 2010. Accepted for Publication
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I will describe the inequalities I have witnessed on City Road‚ these will be religious‚ cultural‚ gender and financial. The Oxford English dictionary describes inequality as; “a difference in size‚ degree‚ or circumstances.” In the first scene we were taken to “Death Junction” an area where five roads converge. The colloquial name can be a reference to the junction in the modern sense and can equally be a historical reference‚ this area was where the city had its gallows and at a time of religious
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sustainable urbanism. The programme offers a multi-disciplinary approach and structure‚ drawing on a wide base of lecturers and practitioners‚ and builds a strong knowledge bases to inform professional practice in the field of urban development. The MSc is designed for urban professionals operating in the UK and worldwide. Students attend eight intensive one-week teaching sessions‚ developing a range of core themes. These include lectures‚ seminars‚ practice-based workshops and one-to-one tutorials
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Name: Sherif Nader A. GOUBRAN ID: 900092358 Date: 13-5-2010 Class & Section: English 201-02 Dr. Loubna Youssef Subtitle: Research Paper (final Draft) A Solution: Urban Chaos in Cairo What is known today as the Greater Cairo Region is in fact a combination of a number of neighbouring cities and governorates (including Cairo‚ Giza‚ Helwan‚ Qalyubia and 6th of October. Since the first establishment in the region‚ Al- Fustat in 641 AD‚ Cairo was in continuous growth. The numerous and different
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PLANNING INITIATIVES’ GOALS AND DETROIT URBAN AGRICULTURE OUTCOMES: A COMPARISON Assignment #5: Reviewed Proposal Zoe Pearce‚ 6777341 To: Zahra Azizi Urbs 240 1 PLANNING INITIATIVES’ GOALS AND DETROIT URBAN AGRICULTURE OUTCOMES: A COMPARISON 2 This paper will examine the urban agriculture movement currently taking place in Detroit‚ Michigan and how it is having an effect on the city that the goals and motivations of historical planning initiatives strived to achieve. This paper
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economic inequalities‚ which can be separate into two parts: income and wealth‚ has become a mainstream political issue. We often hear the economists from different countries speaking income and wealth inequalities‚ no matter they are from developed or developing countries. According to the research‚ both Australia and China are now facing some serious issues from income and wealth inequalities. As two examples of developed and developing countries‚ in this question the main areas of inequalities and
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Urban areas‚ those high population density and built up places‚ are the epicenters of our modern world. Over the centuries urbanization has brought upon the rise of big cities as the epicenters of human culture‚ economy and society. While cities have thrived and become great wealth centers‚ eventually dissatisfaction with the urban was bound to happen. Dissatisfaction with the urban was due to a large variety of reasons‚ but itself it was the primary cause of creation of the suburban ideal. The progression
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A Summary of “How Urban Legends Work” Have you ever heard of the urban legend “Bloody Mary”‚ where you stand in the bathroom with the lights off and the room completely dark and chant “Bloody Mary” 13 times in the mirror a woman will appear and kill you. In the article of “How Urban Legends Work” by Tom Harris‚ Mr. Harris gives us various examples of different urban legends. Exactly what is an Urban Legend? Urban legends are popular stories that are alleged to be true and are passed from person
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