The terms urban sprawl and car dependent now accurately describe the lifestyle of most Americans and individuals around the globe. Urban sprawl is an urban layout where the location of homes‚ schools‚ shops‚ and places of work are widely separated. All of the vastly separated locations are connected by multilane highways. The highways alleviate the issue of distance and replace it with an issue of time (how quick a location can be reached). The city limits are also constantly extending into the countryside
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| UNIT THREE CRIMINOLOGY PROJECT | URBAN & RURAL CRIME | | | | Elaine Lawrence | 23/4/2012 | | RURAL CRIME INTRODUCTION This project is going to look at urban crime and rural crime and how it differs. It will look at statistics for crime in urban and rural areas and see whether there is any difference. There is research put forward by criminologists to suggest that crime is higher in urban to that of rural areas. The project will be using secondary research as
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Policing Urban Poverty Chris Crowther Policing Urban Poverty This page intentionally left blank Policing Urban Poverty Chris Crowther Lecturer in Criminology Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College High Wycombe Foreword by Alan Walker Professor of Social Policy University of Sheffield Consultant Editor: Jo Campling First published in Great Britain 2000 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills‚ Basingstoke‚ Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout
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Urban Planning What solutions would you have proposed for a city if you were an urban planner? Many cities suffered overcrowding. This problem left a lot of consequences such as low health‚ high crime rates‚ and impoverished areas. For this reason‚ Garden City‚ Radiant City and City Beautiful were created to provide solutions which probably would arrange the population in certain areas and improve the life quality of people. These three ideas have been a great influence to urban planners for over
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discussing the Philippine urban poor I have used the guide questions provided by the invitation committee. I will proceed by defining the Philippine urban poor and then discuss its issues as well as my government ’s responses to these issues. Towards the end of my talk‚ I will discuss a proposed agenda of engagement in the present administration. A Close Look At the Urban Poor Situation The Philippine urban poor as officially defined by Republic Act 7279 which is also known as the Urban Development and
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Bading Table of Content 1. Introduction 3 2. Familiarization with an issue of urban crime: the mafia 4 3. Cinematic representation of a mafia life I 6 3.2 “It ’s business‚ not personal.” 7 4. Cinematic representation of mafia life II 8 4.1 Gomorrah analysis 8 5. Godfather and Gomorrah: a comparison 9 6. Conclusion 10 7. Bibliography 11 “Crime is largely an urban phenomenon‚ but the specifically urban and area dimensions of the social processes that are connected with crime have
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Urban Slums: Reason for Concern? The definition of a slum varies from one form to another depending on the background or country from which an individual comes from. Someone from a rich country may define slums as old run-down buildings‚ whereas someone from a poor country will define slums as un-serviced haphazard constructions. The universal definition of a slum as found in the dictionary is said to be a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and filth. Slums are seen
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Iran. J. Environ. Health. Sci. Eng.‚ 2010‚ Vol. 7‚ No. 1‚ pp. 43-52 URBAN SPRAWL AND CLIMATIC CHANGES IN TEHRAN *1Gh. R. Roshan‚ 2S. Zanganeh Shahraki‚ 3D. Sauri‚ 4R. Borna 1 Faculty of Geography‚ University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran Geography and Urban Planning Department‚ University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran 3 Department of Geography‚ Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona‚ Bellaterra‚ Spain 4 Islamic Azad University‚ Branch of Ahvaz‚ Ahvaz‚ Iran 2 Downloaded from http://journals.tums.ac.ir/ on
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heading “Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development” at City Campus‚ University of Technology Sydney‚ Australia. Urban agriculture is probably as old as our cities‚ but never received much attention from the aspect of planning and governance till now. Urban Agriculture‚ the “integration” of farming into the urban economic and ecological system and also embedded in and interaction with the urban ecosystem such linkages includes the use of urban residents as laborers‚ use of typical urban resources
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Urban Spaces Living within a unicultural community is quite the norm for many reasons. It serves a plethora of benefits to be surrounded by individuals who share the same lifestyle as you. The corner grocer may stock ethnic foods particular to your own culture that could not be found in major chain stores. Your neighbors may speak your native tongue if you’re not from that particular part of the world thus eliminating language barriers. All these small conveniences associated with living in unicultural
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