overcrowded urban cores, poorly designed road networks, spatial mismatches between housing and jobs, deteriorating environmental conditions, and economic losses from extreme traffic by congestion are among the more vexing challenges faced by developing cities that could be assuaged through improved coordination of transportation and urban development. is is underscored by examples reviewed in this paper from South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, India, Africa, and South America. It is concluded that whatever
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Sometime you may be think, the city life is better than village life. However there are so many advantages and disadvantages in city life and village life. Actually the city life is more comfortable. As well as there are more opportunities for people to progress in their lives. There are a lot of facilities for people in the city and they have more opportunities for making money. Children living in the city can get a good education, because there are better school in the town than in the village
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travel and tourisms importance in some major cities as a source of economical gain. The cities that were polled included 1,110, but only 463 of the cities participated. This survey showed that 54% of the city leaders realized the direct affect that tourism and travel had on their own city’s economies (Poole, 2000). This type of survey can show a media group or a supporting company that more investments should be put into a city to make that particular city travel friendly and provide more entertainment
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raised in an urban or rural environment. Daily stressors are formed from the simplest things in life to the most over populated part of a city. During this paper we are able to learn about the concept of each affects that territory, privacy and personal spaces. How nature can affect the way of living to urban areas or how it can help other areas in the urban city. Noise to most people can be understanding and yet very draining depending on the situation. Learning about different environments makes
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1- Letter to friend about charity Dear ABC, I hope you are fine and doing well. It came to my knowledge that you have volunteered with a charity and you are working in a developing country. The time I heard this news I was so proud of you. I always knew you were different from everyone, your interests and your perspective of looking at this world was so different always. Now you have finally found your path of helping people directly. Working as a volunteer will provide you deep experience about
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Urban-rural Rising Income Inequality in China As a developing country, China is trying to develop its economy and solving the threat of poverty since the economic reform. As a well-known economist Arthur Lewis said that "development must be inegalitarian because it does not start in every part of the economy at the same time" in 1954 (Lewis, 1954). It is also true for China. The income inequality issue between poor and rich increased faster, which has a negative impact as China tries to become a
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(Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The most significant policy undertaken by a wide range of cities since World War II was that of urban renewal. Since 1954 urban renewal programs have changed the face of many downtown areas and displaced millions of low-income citizens. If there is anything to the "growth machine" hypothesis, the origins of this program at the national level, and the implementation of it in different cities, should reveal the guiding influence of the growth machine, for what these programs
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The McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1925 locating in Universal City, in the western United States.Mcneil museum primarily sourced by appropriation from Fannel County and chartered as the Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts, the museum went through a name change in 2000 to reflect the museum’s main benefactor, Jonathon A. McNeil, who left $28 million dollar as a gift to the museum.Museum endeavors to hold its difference from other museums by holding both art and history
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Land Reclaimation Case study- The Foreshore, Capetown. This town was propose on 1937 under in charge of The South African Railways and Harbours (SAR&H) and the city council took charge of the venture. SAR&H appointed two advisers (F Lonstreth Thomson, a well-known British planner, and Prof. L.W. Thornton White of UCT) and the municipality drew on the services of a French planner E.E. Beaudouin, who was given leave from the army by the French government who considered it an honour for France
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the rapid and massive growth of cities as the migration of people from the countryside in search of better jobs and living conditions occurs. Migration is defined as the long-term relocation of an individual, household or group to a new location outside the community of origin. As the process of internal migration increases within a country large masses of people are gathering in the densely populated and highly structured settlements of a country. Consequently, cities are growing significantly in size
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