Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the increasing number of people that live in urban areas. It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas‚ be it horizontal or vertical. The United Nations projected that half of the world ’s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.[1] By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively will be urbanized.[2] Urbanization is closely linked to modernization‚ industrialization‚ and the
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Urban Planning and Policy Guru Nischal P R41019 Master-Plan for Cyberabad Objective: To develop the master plan (2031); for the Cyberabad (emerging Urban
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Report on Urban Rail Transit Industry in China‚ 2014-2018 Summary The Total Investment in Rail Transit Industry is predicted to be CNY 2 trillion in China in 2013-2020. Many opportunities for enterprises of infrastructure‚ equipment and operation exist in the industry. In China‚ Urban Rail Transit mainly includes subway and light rail. The first urban rail in China was built in Nanjing in the 1930s and dismantled after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The first urban rail
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that are classified as urban. In developing countries‚ a substantial and growing proportion lives in or around metropolitan areas and large cities‚ including the zone termed the ’peri-urban interface ’‚ where their livelihoods depend to some extent on natural resources such as land for food‚ water and fuel‚ and space for living. The population pressure means that resources in such zones are often overexploited. Although heterogeneous in its social composition‚ the peri-urban interface (PUI) constitutes
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2. Social inequality is a necessary evil of capitalist society”. Please comment with the reference of the sociology perspectives being discussed in the lecture and textbook. Social inequality exists in every society‚ no matter it is capitalist society or communist society. Yet‚ referring from three of the sociology perspectives‚ it proves that social inequality is a necessary evil of capitalist society. Capitalism affects the whole situation of different countries on different aspects‚ examples
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management in urban areas. Planning and management needs to happen in all countries over the world because no matter how different the level of development between countries the problems will be same in urban areas. These problems that need to be planned and managed in the urban areas of the city are becoming increasingly significant due to the fact that there has been a hug increase in the number of people living in cities worldwide‚ just over fifty percent of the world are now living in urban areas. The
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With reference to examples‚ discuss the degree to which the level od economic development in country affects planning and management in urban areas. The type of urban problems that require careful planning and management are largely decided by the economic wealth of a countryside. LEDC countries have problems with rapid urbanisation into the cities. However‚ on the other hand the problems that MEDC countries face include; suburbanisation‚ counter urbanisation. Urbanisation is the process in
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Int J Biometeorol (2010) 54:75–84 DOI 10.1007/s00484-009-0256-x ORIGINAL PAPER The urban heat island and its impact on heat waves and human health in Shanghai Jianguo Tan & Youfei Zheng & Xu Tang & Changyi Guo & Liping Li & Guixiang Song & Xinrong Zhen & Dong Yuan & Adam J. Kalkstein & Furong Li & Heng Chen Received: 17 December 2008 / Revised: 29 July 2009 / Accepted: 3 August 2009 / Published online: 1 September 2009 # ISB 2009 Abstract With global warming forecast to continue
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Regeneration refers to in the investment of capital in the revival of old and declining urban areas either by improving what is left behind or clearing away and rebuilding. Often it may be accompanied by reimaging to change the dominant perception of an urban area. Such regeneration efforts can be seen in the town of Syracuse in New York. Between 1970s to 1990s‚ it started to experience urban decline. Economic decline happened as a result of deindustrialisation. As Syracuse was previously the largest
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Urban problems are the same the world over and require the same solution to what extent do you agree with this view All Urban areas have problems‚ which can all be sorted into the categories economic‚ social‚ and environmental. These problems are faced by all urban areas all over the world‚ in both MEDC’s and LEDC’s. however the problems can seem larger in certain parts of the world such as LEDC’s as they are poorer and les able to deal with the problems‚ while in countries such as England we
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