Capital city

the world have encouraged the public to choose public transportation rather than private vehicles to travel. In different modes of public transport, cycling increases in popularity in many cities, which brings healthy and environmental advantages(Goodman and Cheshire, 2014). Particularly for short distances in city, bicycle is regarded as an alternative transport to automobile and it may make an important contribution to the environment and public health(Faghih-Imani and Eluru, 2014).…

The City of Alexandria is located in Northern Virginia, about seven miles south of downtown Washington D.C. Sitting on the west bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria encompasses a total area of 15.5 square miles, of which 97.15 percent is land and 2.75 percent is water. With a population of 150,575 residents (according to the 2014 census), Alexandria is the seventh largest city in Virginia. Interestingly, it is also the most populated town among the fourteen Alexandrias in the United States.…

Urban development in Apia Introduction Apia is the capital city of Samoa and the largest city in the Pacific. In Apia, there is a trend that 40% of population are looking forward to live in urban area. And the rate of urban growth will be continued to increase (Pacific island populations in Jones article, 2001). Urban population, density of house and waste from industries are all rise continually. Due to the increasing of pressure of urbanization and the lack of effective management solutions,…

density, is one of the city that have adopted the concept of TOD. Hong Kong has developed its efficient mass transit system compromising the Mass Transit Railway (MTR), franchised buses, minibuses, taxi and ferries, integrated…

position which create and expand inequalities in availability and accessibility and outcomes of city resources and amenities including public and private health facilities. The present study therefore looks into the nature and extent of health inequities within cities of India. It investigate whether these inequalities are systematic and socially produced and factors that proliferates these inequalities among city dwellers. It attempts to explore the ways and means to reduce these inequalities…

13, 2017 point “A” to point “B”. It would also be helpful for you to figure out where your were and to get you to where you wanted to go. The colors that the cartographer chose for the map works well together. The red star really makes the state capital stand out against the pale lavender color…

Why are there slums, and what can we do about it? Slums are a worldwide phenomenon being present virtually in every region of the world, and having an immense diversity among them. Mike Davis and Robert Sampson are two authors who approached this issue on their own respective books, from a rather different perspective, but maintaining the topic of urban poverty as the overarching object of analysis. Davis directly addresses the slums as a global issue, giving different characteristics that are…

Vantaa case, the participatory scenario-building process was utilised to tackle the potential safety and security risks pertaining to the surroundings and area of the railway station at the city of Vantaa. Vantaa is a rapidly growing city alongside the capital of Finland Helsinki. It is the fourth biggest city in Finland having around 215.000 inhabitants (statistical data from the year 2015). It is home to a growing railway station and the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. One key objective of the…

By the 1990’s apartment or loft living within Sydney had begun to influence a global, economic, cultural and political shift in the processes of large-scale property development. This shift created a new, but also exclusionary way to live within the city (Shaw, 2006). Like Sydney, many other countries across the globe were experiencing a similar shift in thinking. In New York, the recent real-estate boom has lead to a shift in the housing price and living costs in the area with rising rents, and…

set of rules for those who live in the inner city, and a different source of social capital, respect. Nothing is more important in the inner city than the concept of respect, and as Anderson explains a lot of the actions that seem foreign to those who live outside of the world of the inner city make sense when thought about in this context. The book, as a whole, separates itself into seven…