Developed environments

Gendered Response to Urban Poverty and Inequality A Case Study of SDI 1. Introduction Urbanisation has accelerated in the global scale, especially in the Global South, with the urban population growing rapidly due to both natural growth and rural-urban migration. The living condition and lifestyles of people are changing along with different situations in transport, housing, employment and infrastructures. However, in the process of urbanisation, people of different genders, religions and…

from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The Third World contains both economic and political meanings. In political view, it stands for those initially non-aligned states (which eventually became client states which are economically, politically, or…

has been created between urban environments and small towns. These communities have distinct features which measure their own kind of uniqueness, their own set of attributes, how they shape human relations and cultures, as well as the amount of freedom people living in the communities have. Urban environments and small towns differentiate from one another in three main aspects which are in their numbers, density, and heterogeneity (Wirth, 1969). Urban environments have various cultures and…

Along with this, vehicular emissions such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and industrial emissions like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides too pollute the cities. These emissions eventually hamper the health of the citizens as well as the environment. The urban spaces also face a large amount of noise pollution due to traffic and other activities. These can create stressful conditions and hamper health. Presence of green spaces in the crowed urban sprawl can largely help reduce the levels…

children in sub-Saharan Africa are more prone to respiratory problems and water borne diseases and women have more chances of getting an HIV virus than their village counterparts. For decades, governments have tried to renounce their responsibilities. As a result, almost one billion people are forced to work outside economic system legally, working outside the tax system as informal workers. Earlier it was realised that slum was not an inescapable urban future. In 1958 almost one third of Cuban…

than 400 years. In 1610, Dhaka was named as Jahangirnagar by subedar Islam Khan Chishti. Many of the famous infrastructures were built during the British and Mughal period but over the time not only the name but the whole edifice of the city has developed. However, the present Dhaka city is not in a very good shape. It is not as beautiful as before and there are many solid reasons and evidences for this. Migration…

result of urbanization, congestion, pollutions, climate change and emissions inevitably beset every city and historic cities are of no exception. Many historical urban areas vanished and greenery is out of sight, leaving only harsh concrete urban environment. In addition to that, defects and high humidity require governments to make arduous effort in conservation of the heritage. The present paper aims to address the elements of urban greenery which can be applied to George Town, the UNESCO…

Employment opportunity, prosperity and other factors are the main reason why people start to move to Cities. Nowadays, a half of the world population is already residing in urban areas. By 2050, two-third of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. Urbanization is a word for becoming a city. It also means people shifting from rural to urban areas. Urbanization happens in all over places in the world, and it brings both positive and negative effects to societies. Urbanization has…

4. CONCLUSION Public spaces are an essential part of cities urban life. They continuously reflect the combination of cities' cultural, values, history in urban contexts. Repetitive behavior setting in Jeddah city is almost typical along the Corniche, it forms a unique social configuration that required to be applied in urban spaces' design as a characterized image and specific identity. 4.1 Results The measurement process of Jeddah Corniche spatial system resulted in the following: - Sensing…

Excursion Assignment Over time the city of Toronto has constantly expanding and redeveloping. The result of redevelopment and expansion is change is change is styles of architecture. This can be seen in the location of houses in Toronto, and in a smaller community such as the Ryerson campus. Traveling from the suburbs to the urbanized heart of Toronto, the change of architecture was noticeable. In the suburbs there are many multi-story houses, in residential neighborhoods. But when…