Five ICT Essentials for Smart Cities A Whitepaper for Business Executive Summary More than half of the population of the Earth now live in urban areas (United Nations, 2012). Modern cities face many challenges and opportunities because of this. The challenges range from providing a good quality of life for citizens to ensuring appropriate socio-economic development year on year, while the opportunities can be seen in businesses becoming more efficient and innovative, to the reduction of
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choices: living in city or in country, which one will you choose? I think the most important decision to a happy life is where you choose to spend the rest of your life and how you want to live. In the country, you can have as many pets as you want, and you can play your music as loud as you want without the neighbors complaining. The country life is quiet and peace, country living look like a nice dream: hearing natural music, seeing sights, and planting trees.. However, big city life is more appealing
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First, we will discuss how the Arizona Constitution affects the counties. The counties of Arizona have to major roles they preform. The first one is by being the administrative arms for the state government. The second one is by being that the cities provide city type services for those who do not live in the boundaries of the municipalities. The counties are bounded by Dillon's Rule, which only allows the county to hold powers given to them from the state and the constitution. In 1992 the state constitution
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The majority of the population prefers living in a big city because of the great advantages that it provides. The big cities are becoming more and more inhabited. There are several advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city. First, most people prefer living in a big city because is a place where the economy is constantly growing, and it is significantly easier to find a good job. Good companies take place in a big city, and these companies provided many jobs with good wages. For example
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BARC 604 WR Paul Vasquez Zhen Zhang (Winnie) 02/01/16 Stockdale, A. (2006). Migration: Pre-requisite for rural economic regeneration? Journal of Rural Studies, 22(3), 354-366. According to Stockdale, though the gaps among rural areas’ economic development are becoming more and more obvious, it is still necessary to study the underlining relationships among different areas (Stockdale, A. 2006). This article mainly focuses on the space-time point of view to solve the rural economic problems.
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economic success within the area. In this essay I will discuss the results collected on the fieldtrip and describe how they are able to show that the rebranding process has been successful. In order to find out whether the number of people visiting the city centre of Plymouth has increased, I carried out the quantitative method of pedestrian counts at 2 different points – Drake Circus and Frankfort Gate. At 5 minute intervals, I counted the number of people who walked past. At around 12pm, between 150-165
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Environmental Health Student’s Name University Affiliation Environmental Health Define food desert and present some reasons why food desert exist. A food desert is a demographic area of any country whereby there is a shortage of fruits, greens among other healthy foods and this is mainly the case in many poor and developing countries. This describes an area where the obtaining of nutritious food is very difficult for people living in the area especially with the lack of automobile to enable
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Bhopal the capital: Bhopal City is the capital of Madhya Pradesh. It is an attractive mixture of charming beauty, old historic city and fresh urban planning. The name is derive from Bhoj Tal (“Bhoj’s Lake”), a lake created by Raja Bhoj in the 11th century Bhopal the City of Lakes: It is often known as city of lakes for its various natural as well as non-natural lakes and is also one of the greenest cities in India. Today that lake is the Upper Bhopal Lake (Bada Talab), which is connected to the
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But by population density America has about 33 people per square kilometer(.62 miles), while Ethiopia has 85 people per square kilometer, meaning Ethiopia is both a lot smaller and a lot more dense than America. Though I like a bunch of people in a city, Ethiopia would probably be too populated for me. Maybe there are just a bunch of people in one area and there is a lot of space left, like America, but probably not. America also has more jobs and job opportunity than Ethiopia. In America you can
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presented throughout the database were: Lower Land Rates: A lower cost has been established/settled upon lands and houses in the outer suburbs of the cities. Improved Infrastructure: There is an enlarged spending rate on certain types of infrastructures and foundations including roads and electrically-powered machinery. Lower House Tax Rates: Cities will generally have a high property tax
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