Urban Problems This year has been an exciting and always educational experience in Social Problems. Although I did not know at first what I was fully getting into I did know the course description drew me in. Cover a variety of topics in such a small amount of time I feel that by presenting we really get a deeper understanding for our area of expertise. However when it comes to group work I am a very busy person and I personally found it hard to incorporate group time into me time. It is for that
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Number 1. January 2008. Rapid Urban Growth and Poverty in Dhaka City Shahadat Hossain• Abstract The paper aims to explore the nature of urban growth and poverty in Dhaka City‚ Bangladesh. It has highlighted the city of Dhaka as the urbanisation of the whole country is interlinked with the intense development of the city. The paper is based on data collected through surveys of population censuses and relevant studies. It reveals that the historical process of urban development of Dhaka City presents
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THE TRAFFIC SAFETY PROBLEM IN URBAN AREAS J. ARCHER1 and K. VOGEL2 1 CTR‚ Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan‚ Stockholm‚ Sweden; 2 VTI‚ Linköping‚ Sweden E-mail: jeffery.archer@infra.kth.se; katja.vogel@vti.se As the number of people who reside and work in urban areas increases‚ so‚ too‚ do the needs and demands placed on the infrastructure. This has led to severe congestion in many European cities‚ a situation which affects not only the environment in terms of pollution‚ but most notably levels
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Urban Gentrification and Urban Morphology The term ‘gentrification’ has myriads of interpretations from different geographers‚ and sociologists. Ever since‚ there has been protracted debate on its methodology‚ consequences and whether it constitutes a dominant or residual urban form. The term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the Marxist urban geographer Ruth Glass (Glass‚ 1964) to describe the influx of wealthier individuals into cities or neighbourhoods who replace working or lower-classes
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Urban legends have long been included in our culture as traditional stories that often provide a moral conclusion cultivated and spread either orally or written on paper. Many of these tales are often misunderstood as a false story‚ however these tales are derived from real life events‚ and are exaggerated and modified as time passes. Urban legends commonly reflect the fears of a society and often include warnings that prevent a certain action or else something unfortunate will happen to the person
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EFFECTS OF URBAN CRIME ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Technical Paper by: Ms. Adit Padhi (aditipadhi@gmail.com) “Greater concern about terrorism places new opportunities before the design community. If protection is considered from the outset‚ design can make buildings and people safer.”1 Introduction Violent crime was the issue of the nineties‚ while terrorism has become the talk at the onset of 21st century. Understanding crime prevention design is therefore an invaluable tool in organization and
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Environment Programme (UNEP) states that ‘By 2007‚ one-half of the world’s population will live in urban areas compared to little more than one-third in 1972‚ and the period 1950 to 2050 will see a shift from a 65 per cent rural population to 65 per cent urban (United Nations Population Division 2001a). By 2002‚ some 70 per cent of the world’s urban population will be living in Africa‚ Asia or Latin America (UNCHS
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Jordan Groll American Society: Urban Legends in the Classroom What is it about America that causes students and people to crave an education? Could it be the intense pressures of society‚ or could it even be the simple fact that we want to educate ourselves? For centuries people were fine with being un-educated and life was simple and laid back‚ but when John Cotton (a noted Puritan Minister) established the first public school in America‚ people began to eat it up. And thus was
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Urban Culture Urban industrial development combined with mass transportation and urban growth destroyed the old pedestrian city of the past. The physical expansion of the city attracted industry‚ capital‚ and people. By the early 1900s‚ the modern American city‚ with its urban mass and distinct constituencies‚ was clearly taking shape. Cities grow in three ways: through physical expansion‚ by natural increase‚ and through migration and immigration. In the late nineteenth century‚ immigration
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November 1‚ 2012 Research Paper The history of the urban utopia arose when theorists and city planners decided that a radical reconstruction of their cities (Venturi 4) was needed. There are problems that arose in cities of every generation and these problems have sparked the minds of the greatest thinkers‚ planner‚ architects‚ and theorists of the 19th century. These were the first attempts at correcting the problems that we deal with today. Problems such as dealing with growth‚ dealing with nature
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