As an African nation experiencing the phenomenon of urbanization in expanded scale and in prominent pervasiveness, Nigeria is generally perceived as a newly-emerged modern state, which is characterized by rapid industrialization and extensive urbanization (Jiboye,2011).In particular, the term “State” is defined as the politically organized people of a particular land(Antai& Moradi, 2010). When it comes to the cohesion and stability of modernized state, it refers to the condition of a system which
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automobile’s rise on urban form during the twentieth century and critically evaluate planning measures used to limit the negative social and environmental aspects Since the rise of the automobile, there have been many dramatic changes to urban form in attempts to accommodate this new mode of transport. Focusing on America and Britain, this discussion considers influences on all scales ranging from reclassification of physical roads to the decentralization of urban cores. The rising
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Suburbanisation is the process of outward growth of an urban conurbation as people move out of the inner city towards the suburbs. This often results in the engulfing of towns and cities to create one large urban area. This is also known as urban sprawl. This process of suburbanization and urban sprawl often occurs due to urban push factors pulling people away from the CBD and inner city towards the suburbs. These push factors include cheaper land meaning both business and families can have bigger
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Introduction Sustainable development is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Empowerment of women From the Empowerment of Rural Women Course organized by WELI in collaboration with JICA, I learnt valuable lessons on Kaizen and the Life Improvement Approach. Useful parallels can be drawn form the experience of Japan in that the Life Improvement Approach was introduced in Japan against a backdrop of severe
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Abstract This research paper looks at some of the loopholes of the various Rental Housing Assistance programs offered by the government to help families that cannot afford to live to pay their rent. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) oversees the three major programs offered by the federal government, i.e. public housing, privately owned subsidized housing and housing choice voucher (section-8). This paper doesn't focus on one of them specifically, but rather on the efficiency
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Frontier or Sustainable Ethics in Your Region In my opinion, the Frontier Ethics is what is practiced most by humans. I think in some cases humans don't know the facts or have all the information that is needed pertaining to this topic, therefore Frontier Ethics is more dominant for most. However, I feel that if humans were educated in this subject that Sustainable ethics would be practiced more often. With that being said, thinking back on where I grew up I seem to remember that it seemed
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attract and amuse the visitors. Circus, Magic show, Jatra and Jarigan are the chief attractions of them in the fair. Village fair is a part or our cultural life. Rural people are deprived of different kinds of amenities of life enjoyed by the urban people. So, a village fair appears before the villagers with all opportunities for joys and
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countrys population. Since 2000, per capita GDP has grown faster in rural areas than in its urban centres: 6.2 per cent CAGR versus 4.7 per cent. Rural incomes are growing and consumers are buying discretionary goods and lifestyle products, including mobile phones, television sets and two wheelers: between 2001 and 2009, spending in rural India was $69 billion, significantly higher than the $55 billion spent by the urban population. Companies that recognise this enormous opportunity are experimenting
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questions revised China’s government has sponsored a mass migrations of its people from rural areas to urban areas. The government of the Chinese wants to move away from agriculture due to its poor contribution to the nation’s national revenue. Due to the poor agriculture depends on the weather for rice needs water and wheat in time of dry climates. Since the migration of people into the urban areas has begun to turn into an exodus from the juggles and country side to the urbanized parts of China
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An Urban Nation Yakema Whiteside History Of the United States July 28 2014 Decades of studies have proved the United States has changed from a rural to an urban nation. The most important city, New York, probably contained fewer than 22,000 people at the time of the Revolution. And only one person in twenty lived in a place with a population greater than 2,500—a size even then hardly considered urban. The course of the nineteenth century saw the North American landscape literally transformed
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