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    More than half of the world’s population lives in cities‚ a trend that is rapidly accelerating‚ especially in developing countries. In the USA‚ urban areas are merging into huge megalopitan areas‚ especially along interstate highways. Cities require and use large quantities of energy and materials‚ metabolizing them and generating large quantities of waste products and pollutants‚ resulting in unsustainable environments that adversely affect ecological integrity and diversity

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    Central Park is one of Winnipeg‚ Manitoba’s oldest urban parks which was developed in 1893 after the City of Winnipeg acquired it from The Hudson Bay Company for $10‚000 cash and $10‚000 debentures. Prominent residents developed ornate homes‚ as seen in Figure 1‚ apartments and cottages around the 3.5 acre irregularly shaped park which is located on Qu’Appelle Avenue between Edmonton Street and Carlton Street. As the City began to develop parks and greenspaces they created a Public Parks Board

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    Urban Morphology of Dhaka City: Spatial Dynamics of Growing City and the Urban Core Prof. Dr. Farida Nilufar Department of Architecture‚ Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Email: faridanilufar@yahoo.com [Paper presented on the International Seminar on The History‚ Heritage and Urban Issues of Capital Dhaka‚ on the occasion of the Celebration of 400 years of the Capital Dhaka‚ Organized by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh‚ 17-19 February 2010. Accepted for Publication

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    power‚ there are more micro-level social and economic issues that have been exacerbated by this progression. The essence of the city has and always will be the people that inhabit it; how they live‚ work and interact should be the primary focus of any urban environment. Gentrification‚ social and economic stratification and even unjust organization of space are some of the most pressing problems that many cities are facing. Interestingly enough‚ depending on whom you ask‚ you could get an extremely positive

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    Militarization of Urban Space” talks about an “Urban renaissance” in Los Angeles. What does he mean by this? What effect has this had on the city’s poor and working class? How does Davis’ essay connect with Barry Lopez’s “Caring for the Woods?” Scheleen. Grant English 112 Prof. Hatchet In Mike Davis “Fortress Los Angeles the Militarization of the Urban Space‚” he talks about an “Urban renaissance”‚ in Los Angeles. The “Urban renaissance‚” is the‚ “city of the future.” It is the renewal of the empty

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    sustainable urbanism. The programme offers a multi-disciplinary approach and structure‚ drawing on a wide base of lecturers and practitioners‚ and builds a strong knowledge bases to inform professional practice in the field of urban development. The MSc is designed for urban professionals operating in the UK and worldwide. Students attend eight intensive one-week teaching sessions‚ developing a range of core themes. These include lectures‚ seminars‚ practice-based workshops and one-to-one tutorials

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    TOWARD AN URBAN SOCIOLOGY OF MEGA-EVENTS Harry H. Hiller INTRODUCTION The density and diversity of urban populations has long been understood to provide a context for the expression of various forms of collective behavior in the public spaces of cities (Mumford 1961; Lofland 1998; Castells 1983; Jukes 1990; Jacobs 1961). From street festivals‚ parades‚ and pilgrimages to riots‚ marches of resistance‚ and demonstrations‚ such expressive and instrumental activities have been among the most observable

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    PLANNING INITIATIVES’ GOALS AND DETROIT URBAN AGRICULTURE OUTCOMES: A COMPARISON Assignment #5: Reviewed Proposal Zoe Pearce‚ 6777341 To: Zahra Azizi Urbs 240 1 PLANNING INITIATIVES’ GOALS AND DETROIT URBAN AGRICULTURE OUTCOMES: A COMPARISON 2 This paper will examine the urban agriculture movement currently taking place in Detroit‚ Michigan and how it is having an effect on the city that the goals and motivations of historical planning initiatives strived to achieve. This paper

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    Urban areas‚ those high population density and built up places‚ are the epicenters of our modern world. Over the centuries urbanization has brought upon the rise of big cities as the epicenters of human culture‚ economy and society. While cities have thrived and become great wealth centers‚ eventually dissatisfaction with the urban was bound to happen. Dissatisfaction with the urban was due to a large variety of reasons‚ but itself it was the primary cause of creation of the suburban ideal. The progression

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    A Summary of “How Urban Legends Work” Have you ever heard of the urban legend “Bloody Mary”‚ where you stand in the bathroom with the lights off and the room completely dark and chant “Bloody Mary” 13 times in the mirror a woman will appear and kill you. In the article of “How Urban Legends Work” by Tom Harris‚ Mr. Harris gives us various examples of different urban legends. Exactly what is an Urban Legend? Urban legends are popular stories that are alleged to be true and are passed from person

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