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    Even‚ some cities have congestion fees to keep vehicles out of the CBD. Multicenter city is very essential to give people more choices. As for the booming of large out-of- town shopping centers‚ some parts of the CBD have become run down and caused urban decay. Water‚ land and air pollution and high noise are very common in the city center due to heavy traffic‚ large numbers of workers and nearby heavy industry. The same pollution problem exists in transition zone because of old housing and light manufacturing

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    Crime in Urban Areas

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    character values this could have an impact on lowering the crime rate. In my research on crime in urban areas versus crime in the suburban areas; I predict that people who live in urban areas will have a much higher crime rate than those living in suburban areas. Poverty is crime’s chief messenger in the United States. Studies have found that poverty‚ not race‚ is responsible for high crime rates in urban communities. This was revealed in a study completed by an Ohio State University research team that

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    urban design theory

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    Urban design theory the protection of watercourse corridors within a green network and their use in place making avoidance of new culverting and efforts to open existing culverted watercourses requiring sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) in new developments the use of Section 106 agreements – from the Town and Country Planning Act – or community infrastructure levy (CIL) to secure suitable surface water drainage arrangements e.g. regional SuDS facilities and improvements to watercourses.

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    Urban Regeneration Schemes

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    otherwise of urban regeneration schemes in combating the causes and consequences of urban decline? (40 Marks) Urban decline is when an urban area begins to lose business therefore businesses close causing people to lose their jobs‚ so the population starts to look elsewhere and ultimately moves away. It causes the local economy to shrink as well as the population‚ buildings and public places becoming run down‚ therefore lowering the appeal of the area and the cycle continues. Urban regeneration

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    Economic growth has increased rapidly due to industrialisation which has encouraged rural-urban migration to escape rural poverty. This has increased the size of some megacities to over 20 million such as Mumbai in India. In India hyper-urbanisation seems to have occurred as some cities have grown from less than 10 million to over 20 million in less than 25 years‚ e.g. Mumbai and Delhi. This must be due to huge rural-urban migration and internal growth. Growth in Latin America must be slower as Sào Paulo

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    developed‚ the urban area was quickly getting decayed. All minorities were stuck and living in dirty poverty in city. Since that was the government’s act‚ minorities did not have really anything to do. All they did was protesting‚ but nothing really influenced changing. But somehow‚ federal governments felt guilty and removed the discrimination act officially‚ but there was still segregation going on in individual person’s inside. By the fact‚ federal governments decided to rebuild urban area.

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    Urban Unrest in France

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    *Urban Unrest in France (Nov. 30th* Reflection) The two articles both discussed the uprisings of young people in France due to racism and poverty on the outskirts of the mega city‚ which dates back to the history of colonialism. The first reading by Balibar (2007) the author addresses the riots in banlieues through categories such as: names‚ violence‚ post-colony‚ religion‚ race and class‚ citizenship/the Republic‚ and politics/anti-politics. Furthermore‚ the author answers important key words

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    Speech At Urban Prep

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    A. Why do you want to give the Valedictory/Salutatory speech address? Being recognized as the Valedictorian at Urban Prep is one of the highest achievements attainable at the school. With the significance of this speech‚ it becomes vital that the selection committee chooses a senior from the class of 2018 at Urban Prep Englewood that will deliver not only an effective Valedictory speech address‚ but an entertaining one as well. Establishing a well engaged audience is one of the most challenging

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    The Urban and Rural Post

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    The Urban and Rural Divide 1 Imagine life in Los Angeles. Now imagine life in a neighbouring rural California town. Finally‚ picture life in Cairo‚ Egypt. Which of these last two places is more different from Los Angeles? Many people might mistakenly choose Cairo because it is in a different country. In fact‚ city dwellers all over the world tend to have similar lifestyles‚ so the biggest differences are between Los Angeles and its smaller neighbour. Urban people and rural people‚ regardless

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    Violence In Urban Cities

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    Have you ever thought about the blame behind the violence in our urban cities? No matter where you are‚ your loved ones will always want you to be safe and secure with the raise of drugs‚ gangs‚ and guns with the threat of violence within the communities. According to Joan Mccord the author of “Placing American Urban Violence In Context” stated‚” American cities are more violent than those in other developed nations”. There are several types of violence such as emotional‚ physical‚ sexual‚ financial

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