Why is income inequality an important issue for the Chinese society and its future economic growth? Introduction Nowadays‚ China has become the second largest economy in the world. The GDP (gross domestic product) of china was growing at 9.7% per year in average since 1978‚ which the year of Chinese “open door” politic founded. China also has become the biggest producer and consumer in many key agricultural and industrial markets and the largest FDI recipient among the developing countries. The
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safe cities through different urban planner’s visions It is known that safe cities are related by their design‚ besides they provide a sense of security for those who inhabit there. According to the urban planners‚ there are several proposals and different manners to design safe cities such as crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). Despite there are vast amounts ideas to design a safe metropolis‚ all them have flaws in terms of crime. Therefore the urban planners decided to approach
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Cities 26 (2009) 81–92 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cities journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cities A GIS analysis of the impact of modern practices and polices on the urban heritage of Irbid‚ Jordan Sharaf Al-kheder a‚*‚ Naif Haddad a‚ Leen Fakhoury b‚ Suha Baqaen c a The Hashemite University‚ P.O. Box 150459‚ Zarqa 13115‚ Jordan The University of Jordan‚ Jordan c Consolidated Consultants Engineering and Environment‚ P.O. Box 830746‚ Amman 11183‚ Jordan b
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A REPORT ON HOW TO HANDLE MAJOR ISSUES IN THE URBAN STUDIES MODULE PREPARED FOR: HEAD OF GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF EDUCATION PREPARED BY: FRANCES SIMWINGA (STAFF ASSOCIATE) 25TH SEPTEMBER‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION The report was called to explain how major issues would be handled in the Urban Studies module. It provides a brief summary of topics to be covered and questions. TOPIC ONE: URBAN SETTLEMENTS AND THE PROCESS OF URBANISATION‚ PROBLEM
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illustrate their role in urban change. Introduction The correlation between productions of built environment‚ human activities and the change of urban development has long been a hot topic in Hong Kong. It requires a complex decision making process‚ which includes political‚ economic and social concerns‚ in the urban planning. In this essay‚ I am going to study the roles of the major actors involved in the production of built environment and how their decisions result in Hong Kong’s urban changes. Built
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For Solid Waste Management In Rural Urban Relations- A Case In Sisdol Landfill Site | Term Paper on Rural Urban linkages | Sujata Shrestha | Background Rural-urban interaction can be defined as linkages across space such as flows of people‚ good‚ money‚ information and wastes and linkages between sectors such as agriculture‚ services‚ etc. Rural urban relation is a fundamental element of regional development. The balance rural urban linkages strongly and mutually supports
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decentralization of retailing and other services has had a major impact on urban areas.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? – Consequently the decentralization of retailing and other services are having or have had major impacts on the urban areas whether they are negative or positive because it is taking consumers out of their local town and spending their disposable income elsewhere‚ this is bound to have effect on urban areas. In the 1970s the shopping patterns began to change due to
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11 Patronage of Local Cinema Halls among Urban Youths in Ado Ekiti‚ Southwest Nigeria Babatunde Joshua Omotosho Introduction and Statement of Problem Globally‚ urban areas are noted for the provision of social and public spaces in terms of education‚ energy supply‚ leisure‚ recreation facilities in order to make life conducive for the urban dwellers. Nigerians are deprived of these facilities in urban centres due to poverty and failure to maintain the existing ones‚ among other reasons. However
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DOES FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INCREASE INCOME INEQUALITY? SOME ECONOMETRIC EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH DOES FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INCREASE INCOME INEQUALITY? SOME ECONOMETRIC EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH Abu N.M. Wahid Tennessee State University Muhammad Shahbaz COMSATS Institute of Information Technology‚ Lahore‚ Pakistan Mehmood Shah University of Management and Technology‚ Lahore‚ Pakistan Mohammad Salahuddin Southeast University Banani‚ Dhaka‚ Bangladesh ABSTRACT This paper
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Introduction Urbanization is exponentially growing in the world while rural living is decreasing; over half the world’s population lives in a urban areas (MeyerLindenberg‚ 2015). Urban being defined as an constantly builtup area with 50‚000 or more residents with at least 1‚000 residents per square miles as defined by the United States Census. Urbanized living is accompanied by many risk factors that are common to the development of mental health issues and disorders (Carol Strike‚ Paula Goering
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