the i-cities block International cities Creating value and competitiveness for international cities NYC case ICT and connectivity Greta Nasi Bocconi University p. 2 An urban world Globalization and the knowledge economy have repositioned cities as drivers of national economies 2025: 75% of the world population will live in cities 2025: 17 of the world’s 25 largest cities will be in coastal regions in Asia 1925:25% of the world population will live in cities Greta
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Population growth is one of the main reasons to the urbanization. Fertility rates are largely dependent on economic considerations. As economic wellbeing increases, the fertility level decreases. Security about the future and alternatives to family life in the cities are the main reasons for this decrease Education level has similar effect as economic wellbeing to the fertility rates. For example in Taiwan and South Korea, rising education level has resulted in smaller families, and population growth
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account of the approach taken by any one or two Modern writers depiction of urban life ‘Why do I dramatise London so perpetually’ Woolf wondered in the final months of her life. This essay will seek to examine Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Eliot’s The Waste Land to observe their perpetual fascination with expressing metropolis as a vision of modernity. It will attempt to scrutinize the overwhelming nature of urban life, urban life’s effect on humanity, metropolis being the forefront of society, and
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Turks caused the Christians to migrate from the east to the west of Europe. Consequently, the volume of trade rose and European cities besides the coastline progresses impressively. An additional push was given to urbanization upon the advent of the Industrial Revolution; the population density of European and American cities continued to intensify. For instance, the city of Chicago saw it population rise from fifteen individuals to over twenty million in a timeframe of seventy eight year. Yet, the
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Profile Background: Hollywood, Florida is a unique city within itself. It's no South Beach, but it is tolerable. Most are areas within the city range from good to okay to bad. Hollywood houses many people and their cultures. The city has a life within its residents, who are mostly working class citizens. There are many in the community who deserve to hear a profile of someone who has made it comfortably in life. Demographics: Many people in the city work for what they have. There are some who struggle
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Case Facts Oakdale is in need of revitalization of its city, to improve its economic growth and public satisfaction. Oakdale is a “small municipal government with a weak economic base in the inner suburbs of a large city” (Cropf & Loutzenhiser, 2012, p. 79). With small budgets and limited funds, parts of the city have deteriorated so badly that some citizens find Oakdale to be an eyesore badly enough that they claim to live in a nearby city, which they use as their mailing address, that also causes
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people in this area seemed to be the type of people I’d pictured as a child when thinking of global cities like New York: stylish, busy and successful. Most of the old warehouses I’d passed by had been renovated into condos, and there were a number of construction sites dotted around. It was wonderful to see; these old buildings being brought back to life instead of being demolished or left to slowly
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176-178 -Chapter8 10/16/02 10:21 AM Page 176 Page 1 of 3 Urban Sprawl How can urban sprawl be controlled? Main Ideas • Many metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada have sprawled, or spread out, farther and farther. • Cities are focusing on smartgrowth solutions to urban sprawl. Places & Terms A HUMAN PERSPECTIVE Richard Baron is a real estate developer who urban sprawl infrastructure smart growth sustainable community tried to address the related problems of
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THE WORLD’S CITIES 2008/2009 Case Study Woman-headed households suffer disproportionately from inadequate housing s Turkish women taking a lunch break in Ankara ©Kobby Dagan/iStockphoto A recent report released by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions notes that while previous studies found that women who migrate to cities do so to join family members – mostly husbands – in the city, this trend appears to be changing: an increasing number of women are migrating to cities on their own
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Essay “Living with Strangers” Minnesota and New York are two thoroughly diverse cities, but still there are exceptions of this belief - they both, like every other city in the world, have their own tacit norms and proprieties. Cultures and societies have through time build ethics, which people outside the given group or civilization won’t understand. It can be everything from simply greeting each other, from rural Minnesota where “hi” slip of people’s tongues like honey to New York where its
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