aftermath of a zombie apocalypse has left the city of Houston, Texas, completely devastated. The destruction has left Houston’s city and citizens in ruins. Few made it through the zombie attack, and now the city stands in an unstable and deteriorated state. With more than half the population already wiped out by the apocalypse, forming a secure and sustainable way of producing food for the community must be achieved by the city’s government. As my cities planner, I must decide on a sustainable and
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Speech 10/8/12 Loss of Farmland I. Introduction A. According to the American Farmland Trust between 2002 and 2007, 4,080,300 acres of farmland were lost and converted to development. To put that into perspective, that’s an area almost the size of Massachusetts. Currently our farmland loss is at an astonishing 1 acre + a minute. Now you might not think that this affects you, but you are wrong. B. I want you to think about things that you do every day. Well I know that
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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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The Shareable Future of Cities Alex Steffen Climate change is already a heavy topic, and it’s getting heavier because we’re understanding that we need to do more than we are. We’re understanding, in fact, that those of us who live in the developed world need to be really pushing towards eliminating our emissions. That’s, to put it mildly, not what’s on the table[1] now. And it tends to feel a little overwhelming when we look at what is there in reality today and the magnitude[2] of the problem
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Oaks Hudson Oaks is a small suburban city in Parker County, Texas. It is located 23 miles west of Fort Worth and according to the 2011 Census is home to 1677 residents. “The City of Hudson Oaks was incorporated in 1978 by a group of citizens who shared a desire to come together in creating a community that could create its own destiny rather than having it shaped by the taxing entities in the surrounding area” (Deen, n.d., para. 2). Since that time the City of Hudson Oaks has become a vibrant leader
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to narrow down rural-urban disparities. The rural-urban disparities is found across the World, as is indicated with the fact that Cities take up less than two percent of the Earth’s land surface, but are home to almost half of the world’s population and utilize seventy-five percent of the Earth’s resources. In 1998 47 percent of the world’s population lived in cities as opposed to 29 percent in 1950. Globalization is leading to increased urbanization. According to the World Bank, urban areas in developing
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Delivering to Future Cities - Mega Trends Driving Urban Logistics Over the past two decades delivering goods into the cities has become a challenge with cities getting overly congested and traffic jams resulting in expensive logistics bottlenecks. In fact, studies show that the cost of congestion now in terms of time wasted in traffic and fuel consumption is off the roof, almost 200% more than what it was in the 1980s. And congestion is only a part of the urban delivery problem. Pollution, lack
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Cottle Taylor:Expanding oral care group in India Brinda Patel is the director of Cottle Taylor, an oral care firm which manufactures oral care, personal care and home care products. Patel has developed a marketing plan, according to which there will be 20% increase in toothbrush unit sales. Michael Lang is her manager and he found Patel’s sales forecast conservative. Lang and Patel both have different ideas of what strategy should be implemented in India. Having had success in Thailand, Lang wants
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RES/342 Two-Sample Hypothesis Research Question A company decides to purchase homes to rent out to their employees. They have to decide if purchasing homes in a rural area is cheaper than purchasing homes from the inner city. 15 miles from the center of the city is inner city and anything passed 15 miles is rural area. The mean house pricing in the urban area is $232,736 out of a sample size of 59 with a standard deviation of $48,651. The mean house pricing in the rural area is $206,183 out of
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capital, Dhaka, is thought to be the world's fastest growing city. It already has a population of 15m, and an extra 400,000 people move there every year. This is the city where people from various places from Bangladesh come to make their career, fulfill their desire, and make their dreams come true .For this reason the members of Dhaka society are facing several challenges and the life style of all peoples of Dhaka city become very hard and challenging. The intent of
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