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    The medieval city of Tehran was prototypical of most Iranian-Islamic cities. It had a bazaar, a citadel for political matters, a Friday mosque and residential neighborhoods (Sintusingha and Mirgholami 2013, 122-132). Cul-de-sacs were used to separate family from public spaces. Tehran was not blessed with great open spaces and had no overall plan compared to Isfahan being known for its urban developments…

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    conflicts in both the center and the edge of the city (Low 2003, 387). Globally, cities are divided into different areas, segre-gated by cultural or racial differences and tensions. It is interesting to see how cities across the planet deal with issues that result from social pres-sures, cultural contexts and rapid globalization. For Low, gated communi-ties and other forms of residential development behind walls are a spatial form that offers an escape for some of the citizens. Analyzing why…

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    Toronto Case Study

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    its high population density and continuously rising cost of living stemming from a high demand for housing, goods, and services. Immigrants and people moving from rural areas will opt to relocate to the suburbs where housing, goods, and services are more affordable [8]. Businesses, realizing the potential for growth in these areas, may choose to relocate to or expand in the suburbs. In Vaughan for example, the services being provided cater to the needs of the family-oriented community as well as…

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    land-use models and main characteristics of urbanization help to plan and provide facilities for the needs of increasing urban populations more easily. Urbanization is the process where a large number of population become concentrated living in urban area. Urbanization is about changing distribution of world urban population and settlement. Natural increase of urban urbanization can occur either by natural population…

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    Sprout City: A Case Study

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    kind be quite expensive, this model allows us to have the transportation cost even within the city. In addition, this model gives everyone the opportunity to have the resources evenly distributed, which is important when a city contains different residential classes. The way that we have set up our city makes sense because the central business district is the focal point of a city, which is reasonable if it is in the middle. This allows for the city to be able to kind of evolve around the CBD.…

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    Communal Areas

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    Communal Areas Cleaning London Do you own a large commercial property, student property, flat share or office block? If you do, then you will have to address cleaning communal areas. The reason is because you must provide residents or visitors to such property with healthy living conditions that stand up to certain standards. You could try and take on such task on your own, but odds are it will be too large a job. By outsourcing the job to a communal areas cleaning company, you can take the…

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    and a high demand for single-family houses while the supply was low. Urban cities expanded rapidly in the US to cover the demand on housing. Transportation was another helpful reason for people to live outside urban areas. A lot of agriculture lands and forests turned to be residential suburbans. Some people name this act as the “Housing Boom.” (Bhatta 2010, P.7). All these factors caused what is named “Urban Sprawl” which caused a negative effect to the natural environment, and traffic issues.…

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    Changes in the Park Slope Neighborhood Research Question: What are some long-term effects the changes in the commercially centralized area of Park Slope, specifically 5th and 7th ave, have on its residents? How do these effects change the overall view one has on their own neighborhood compared to what outsiders believe? Research Proposal: Long-term effects in Park Slope differ when looking from the view of one resident to the next. Growing up and adapting to the changes is different when it…

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    My core assumption is that the actual effects and net results of these DFW Metroplex developments around transit centers can be better explained as the result(s) of residential income level differentiation (limited resources and restricted residential options) and the subsequent choices that thereby result can often be misinterpreted as planned or proposed positive effects from TODs. 1. Mockingbird Station TOD Located at 5465 East Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Station…

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    into consideration. The population pattern in the more northern regions of Canada is sparse, and significantly less populated than southern areas of Canada, such as a neighbourhood in Surrey, BC, because…

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