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    Should Country Parks be Rezoned as Built-up Areas? Do you want to live in a bigger housing unit? The living space per capita in Hong Kong is 161 square feet. People who are single in Hong Kong need to spend 30 years awaiting a public housing. Hong Kong has 24% of land was developed‚ while the residential use accounted for 7% of the total land area of Hong Kong. This means 7 million population need to accommodate in this 7% of land. Do you want to give Hong Kong economy a boost? The gross domestic

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    The first chapter of planet of slums outlines Mike Davis’s concern for the ever-increasing urban population. His observation also shows that not only have the urban population increased but it has increased faster then expected. In this chapter he argues and shows great concern on the fact that the urban population around the world can and will outgrow the rural population. According to him‚ “in 1950 there were 86 cities in the world with a population of one million; today there are 400‚ and by

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    1-Mention at least three limitations of GDP when it is considered as a measure of economic performance or as a measure of human welfare -Leisure -Home production -Environmental changes 2-what are the drawback of price indexes when they are used for discounting to access the growth in living standard -Quality changes -New product -Substitution 3-what are the main part of wealth according to the world bank wealth of nation projects -Produced capital -National Capital -Intangible capital

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    it gives them a sense of belonging (avoids racial abuse) Familiar culture comfort from others who understand you and speak the same language and who you can talk about your religious beliefs with Stronger in numbers - maintain a larger voice Solutions: improving educational provision and opportunities in deprived areas increasing employment for basic skills - providing information and training community involvement providing facilities to encourage the whole community to engage instead of

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    Seoul Urbanization

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    traffic congestion and lack of housing. This essay will discuss about two issues caused by increasing number of population in the city. The first is traffic congestion in Seoul and policies to decline this problem and the second is lack of housing and solution by the government. Traffic congestion is one of the most serious problems in Seoul because of a large number of vehicles in the city (Asianinfo.org‚ 2000). The increasing number of population in an urban area produces a plentiful number of passenger

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    Counter Urbanisation

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    Counter-Urbanisation: Counter urbanisation is the movement of the population and economic activity away from the urban areas. When people choose to live on the edge of urban areas they do this because normally the urban areas are not very nice places to live due to pollution‚ crime and traffic. Also urban areas are very busy and noisy and people may want to move away from these places (Manchester‚ London and Liverpool) and move to less crowded and quieter places like the rural urban fringes and

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    Dubai is currently one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Urban sprawl is becoming the subject of analysis through modern decades concerning the management of urban growth. It described the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into rural areas‚ following the outward expansion of cities; it is believed that the city of Dubai has followed this method. Each city has shaped its own settlement patterns over time‚ either through the oldest and most widely quoted models

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    Atlanta City Comparison

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    In chapter 5 of out textbook we looked at 3 large‚ well known city’s‚ and went into depth with them. We learned more about their homes‚ jobs‚ marketing‚ transportation‚ population‚ environmental areas‚ and many other thing about them. This essay is comparing and contrasting‚ and I took the two most opposite city’s out of the three Portland and Atlanta and compared them. It really made me open my eyes to what is good and bad about growing economy’s and businesses. Portland and Atlanta are very much

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    With reference to examples‚ assess the degree to which the level of economic development of a country affects planning and management in urban areas. Planning and management needs to happen in all countries over the world because no matter how different the level of development between countries the problems will be same in urban areas. These problems that need to be planned and managed in the urban areas of the city are becoming increasingly significant due to the fact that there has been a hug

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    Australia Urban Decline

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    Australia is an extremely urbanised country; about 85 per cent of the population lives in coastal areas‚ and most of these people live in urban areas with populations of over 100 000 people. This accounts for only about 1 % of Australia ’s total landmass. This level of urban growth is putting much pressure on cities to keep up with the needs of the growing populations. Though some areas of cities are being subjected to urban growth‚ other areas may be experiencing the effects urban decline. The suburb

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