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    Urban Tourism - Amsterdam

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    Centre (Shackley‚ 2003). The main purpose was to provide a focus for the study of visitors and tourism‚ involving significant impacts on natural resources. At present‚ visitor management also deals with the reality of visitors reaching the attraction/destination‚ followed by impacts on natural environment‚ local governments‚ local businesses and residents (Richardson‚ Flucker‚ 2004). Working in partnerships‚ strategic planning and managing stakeholders can be applied at site or destination level. Numerous

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    Urban Legend Essay

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    According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ an urban legend is “an often lurid story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true.” Urban legends tend to have minimal evidence of where the story originally began making them seem more mysterious and eerie. With this being said a legends background can be assumed to be linked with a multitude of instances. This‚ of course‚ what makes it an urban legend. If a urban legend does not contain a some sort of mystery then it would

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    Environmental Planning

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    POLICIES AND STANDARDS AS THEY AFFECT ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING INTRODUCTION The environment refers the totality of man’s soroundings including components such as Land‚ Water bodies and the envelope of air that sorounds us which is reffered to as the atmosphere. It also includes the social and economic aspects of human life. There is a delicate balance between all the components of the environment for the the benefit of man’s existence. Alterations to this balance can have drastic consequences

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    Early Urban Settlements

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    could store surplus food for droughts or conflict‚ they began to Warehouse. This enabled certain groups to be able to trade food with others in exchange for goods or services. Trading rules were enacted‚ and the earliest markets were formed. Ancient urban settlements included more complex Public Services. Rulers‚ large militaries and other jobs were expanded and included a large number of the population. Other jobs including working on construction projects public service were created. Current jobs

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    Alleviating Urban Blight

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    Alleviating Urban Blight Mariah Beatty-Adams Kent School of Social Work University of Louisville Urban Blight in Louisville Louisville is known for internationally for the annual derby‚ that the upper-class and wealthy attend as a group for recreation‚ and entertainment. It is a time that economically‚ that the city is in its element. Millions of dollars are spent on derby paraphernalia‚ horse paraphernalia and alcohol for the masses. The city is becomes a city that never sleeps.

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    URBAN AND RURAL AREAS

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    URBAN AND RURAL AREAS Human settlements are classified as rural or urban depending on the density of human-created structures and resident people in a particular area. Urban areas can include town and cities while rural areas include villages and hamlets. While rural areas may develop randomly on the basis of natural vegetation and fauna available in a region‚ urban settlements are proper‚ planned settlements built up according to a process called urbanization. Many times‚ rural areas are focused

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    Rural Urban Migration

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    Rural Urban Migration Aaapka Naam kya hai? Mera Naam “Bechaara” Hai Bechara ji..aap kahan jaa rahe ho? Mein apna gaon chod ke “Seher” Jaa raha Hoon Aap apna gaon chod ke seher kyun jaa rahe ho? Sahab jii…mein he kya…mere bahaut yaar dost jaa chuke hain..or ab mein bhi jaa raha hoon Lekin Kaaran toh bataoo….Bechara Ji Sahab jii…ek kaaran ho toh bataun…lekin aap zor de rahe ho toh sunoo.. Reasons for Rural-Urban Migration • Poverty/Low Income • • • • Unemployment Wage

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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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    Urban sprawl and motorization are currently critical issues‚ because they cause environmental problems as well as ecological and social issues which pose a threat to human health and social stability. Urban sprawl is the enlargement of city’s development that spread far away from the centre to the outskirt of that city. Urban sprawl is the result of the increasing urbanization. Motorization happens when people mostly use cars for traveling in the city. The rise of the automobile industry supports

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