The Skyline and Urban Development ——with Hong Kong for example Nanjing Forestry University 2013 Congru Zhang Abstract： Skyline as a new symbol of the city and the characteristics of the landscape‚ along with the development of the city‚also witnessed the changes in urban history. Scientific and technological development and the psychology of human behavior have become an important factor of city’s skyline. This paper analyzes the Hong Kong; for example‚ explore internal and external causes; space
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"Confronting Inequality" Paul Krugman is asserting the fact of high socioeconomic inequality in the United States‚ while demonstrating its consequences and the variety of statistic evidences upon it. He is depicting modern American society where we have a huge gap between economic elite and lower-and middle-income classes. There is a time for ’’a Great Moderation" reforms that will bring a socioeconomic equality. I agree‚ that economical inequality brings the social inequality‚ where as a result
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Report on "Children in America’s Schools"‚ a documentary movie based on a book by Jonathan Kozol called "Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools". "Children in America’s Schools" is a documentary movie based on the Jonathan Kozol book "Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools" and looks at the school system in America circa 1996. The movie describes the disparate quality of education that exists between poor and rich school districts in the United States. Entering schools in
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Summer Youth Olympics. Urban development in Medellin Medellin has been involved in a series of economic‚ social and violence issues caused by drug trafficking and conflicts between communist guerrillas and paramilitaries. The city was in 1992 ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Today‚ things are different. On 21st of May‚ 2011‚ appeared in the local newspaper ’El Colombiano’ an article titled: "Architecture has transformed Medellin”. The urban and social development of
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There are often arguments over urban renewal and heritage preservation. Suggest at least two ways in which a compromise can be reached with appropriate evidence to support your view. The main characteristic of Hong Kong’s culture lies in the successful blend of East and West. Our heritage items are a testimony to our unique past and are irreplaceable. Heritage preservation provides a legacy for future generations‚ shows how those before lived‚ and enables us to retain knowledge and memories
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Name: Fabio Carvalho How Urban Legends Work BY Tom Harris (Summary) Tom Harris has come up with a number of definitions for urban legend. To me‚ a legend must be a story‚ with characters and some sort of plot. Others lump widely dispersed misinformation into the urban-legend category. For example‚ the erroneous belief that you will automatically pass all of your college courses in a semester if your roommate kills himself is generally considered to be an urban legend. While these "facts"
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week asks the students to examine three cases in which policy analysts are put into situations where they must make professional and ethical decisions based on their respective situations. In the Metroville Urban renewal scenario‚ policy analyst Henry is tasked to do an evaluation of the urban development project that has been in progress for ten years. The Metroville City Planning Department has sponsored the project and has also received funding from the federal government. Henry has discovered
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In this historical study an analysis of the reformation ideology of the urban slum will be defined through the clearing out of the lower classes in New York City’s Five Points Tenements during the late 19th century. The 19th century “slum” was a negative social and economic development that was based on locating immigrant workers in New York City into low-income tenement projects‚ which was an attempt to accommodate the massive influx of low-cost labor from Europe. The Five Points is an important
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The US for a long time has had the largest gap and inequality between rich and poor compared to all the other industrialized nations. For example in 2003‚ the top 1% received more money than the bottom 40% with the gap widest in 70 years. Furthermore‚ in the last 20 years while the share of income going to the top 1% has increased‚ it has decreased for the poorest 40%. Inter Press Service also summarizes an updated report by the US Census Bureau that 1 in 7 people in the US are in poverty. In 2009
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With reference to examples‚ evaluate the success or otherwise of urban regeneration schemes in combating the causes and consequences of urban decline (40) Such a question is extremely difficult to answer given its multifaceted nature. In order to approach this question it is necessary to outline that success is an extremely subjective conclusion as what may be a success for some people in a region might be seen as a failure for other people in that same region‚ or indeed another region‚ so assessing
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