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    Deurbanization in Detroit

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    neighborhoods‚ most of the post-industrial decay and desolation found is produced by corporations. Concepts like ‘Creative class”‚ the “Cool cities’‚ green collar jobs‚ urban agriculture and even ‘Imagination economy’ argufy the traditional corporate tax-break-downtown paradigm. Present debate over the city’s redevelopment also ruminate an urban culture which came upon arduous history of clashing classes‚ racism‚ deindustrialization and down grading environment‚ So to achieve conceiving the purpose of city

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    Larry UP 201- The Role of Planning in Urban & Regional Development FINAL-TERM EXAM REVIEW Chapter 1: Overview Define the terms interconnectedness and complexity; relationship of these terms to the field of urban and regional planning. a. Interconnectedness b. Complexity Complexity is the condition that justifies planing as a separate profession and as a separate activity of government. The complexity of the community also means that many things that in a simpler place could be done privately

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    mare culturale urbano Title / Subtitle Premise (premessa) An urban project means taking the geography of a given city‚ with its demands and suggestions‚ as a starting point and introducing‚ with the architecture‚ some elements of the language to give form to the site. (Ignasi de Solà-Morales) Presupposition (presupposto) Post-industrial cities have seen an increase of derelict urban spaces‚ built-up structures and buildings became obsoletes once its original functions turned into either unimportant

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    Atlanta City Comparison

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    coming to the city to see the nice environmental areas but also the city itself‚ Atlanta as well has a very large fast growing population and it’s making the city want to expand and Portland would like to as well. Another similarity is how the urban sprawl is taking over suburbs and places where is was natural and green‚ this is mostly because of the population like I was explaining earlier

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    rural urban desparities

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    Voting behaviour in rural and urban areas of Punjab Dr. Mughees Ahmed 1 Abstract The study of voting behavior of the rural and urban voters is the main objective of this paper. Ideological and biradari (clan‚ tribe) based considerations of voters are discussed in this case. Biradarism (casteism‚ tribalism) is the main component of this behavior. It has a very deep impact on political alignments of the people of Punjab. This factor gained more importance in the era of non-political governments

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    cities for a small planet

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    beauty tells how alive and great it is still has its own fragile tendencies despite of being perfect in a sense. These tendencies regard the following: pollution (air and water)‚ extreme floods‚ deforestation‚ resource depletion‚ global warming and urban sprawl‚ which risk the human possibility of survival. It is then our responsibility as stewards to safeguard our planet‚ to conserve our resources and to prevent it from being destroyed. We have to apply what has been called “the precautionary principle”

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    Pope Urban Thesis

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    Gesta Version recorded that Pope Urban said as much‚ “Great is your reward in Heaven.” This previous quote follows the same path that the first two accounts discussed as well. Pope Urban knew that if he could make the men confidant in their eternal life then they would march wherever he told them to. This manipulation of a man’s spirituality was a very cunning move since a lot of the regular soldiers would have to come from the peasants of the nation. Thus‚ when Pope Urban told them that if they left

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    Living in Urban or Rural

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    “Where to live” is the most common question for young people cause it affects a lot to the rest of their lives. As its modern facilities‚ some people prefer living in urban rather than in rural areas. However some debate that people will harm their health when live in big city. No one is wrong and everything has its own reason. I will discuss this controversy as the following paragraphs. As I have mentioned‚ big city attracts people for its modernization including health care system‚ entertainment

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    pope urban iii

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    Though Pope Urban II promised a heaven for the Franks and expanded Christianity‚ I believe that his message was frightening rather than inspiring. I have come to this conclusion because in an ideal mind‚ a pope‚ a man of the church is thought to be pure and pious. However‚ Pope Urban II is in fact acting as a political leader‚ scheming and plotting against the Turks‚ under the façade of a pope. In his appeal to the Franks‚ Pope Urban II begins his speech in an ominous and foreboding tone. This

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    Urban Problems in Germany

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    world’s social problems such as poverty‚ violence‚ pollution‚ prostitution‚ AIDS‚ drug abuse‚ and unemployment‚ some of the most widespread and unfortunate social problems‚ are more prevalent in our world’s cities and urban areas. This is true not because people that live in urban areas are less honorable‚ but cities‚ and more urbanized areas attract people who don’t meet the social norm and have and/or want to be around people that are in the same situation as they are. Artists‚ musicians

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