City-building games

An Alameda County Transportation Comission’s meeting was held on Dec 8, 2015, and several of the city’s managers attended the meeting. The commission, along with all of the city managers were concerned about these issues. “Although there is a diversity with public transit for the elderly and disabled in this county, there are many people who are not receiving services due to their geographic area or lack of enough seniors in the community” stated Naomi Armenta, who is the paratransit…

The final case study is about urban development in Davis, California. Urban development does not take place in a vacuum, and it is important to be sure that established assumptions about the development process are manifestly accurate. Property developers usually have their way, large corporations do homogenise the American landscape with indistinguishable retail outlets, and entrepreneurs, landowners, mainstream media, and local government also support this type of growth. In other words, what…

immigrant populations moving into the area such as, housing. The statistics discussed above outline the change in demographics of housing and as was stated previously, the housing is affordable due to the county’s low cost of living and housing costs (City-Data, 2015). Although this may not be the ideal housing…

Astoria and Oregon City. You would be going about 4 miles per hour and it would take you up the Willamette, seeing Linnton with a couple of cabins and the beginning of St.Johns. After about another 2 hours you would be in Portland with a population of about 400. Just about everyone you met would be promoting a townsite. During the years around 1850 there were a dozen townsites along the lower Willamette River. They wanted to see which of the 12 locations would become the main city. Migration…

rainforests, breathtaking beaches, and monstrous mountains. There are so many islands to visit, and temples to see. The temple Wat Rong Khun, known as the White Temple, is a marvelous site to see. Collages of mirrors are all around the exterior of the building, which sparkles in the sun. But hearing about places isn’t as fun as going there. ประเทศไทย กำลังโทรหาคุณ, translated roughly to “Thailand is waiting for…

production. A free market means an economic market society in which values come from the market place and not from family, education, or even religion. The United States and Canada also had a much larger amount of immigrant population building up their countries. Building up a slave society, filled with people that were forcefully moved from their home…

A typical Greek city was built around a fortified hill, called an "acropolis". Here was located the city's chief temple, the city's treasury, and some other public buildings. At the centre of the city was the "Agora" - the central space where public meetings were held, and where traders set up their stalls. The agora was often flanked by colonnades. Most industrial production took place in small workshops. Family members plus some slaves would make up the workforce in most of these. However,…

Apartments for Rent Oklahoma City, OK Known for its legendary attractions and diverse mixture of both modern and historical neighborhoods, Oklahoma City appeals to those with eclectic tastes. Apartments vary in both size and affordability throughout this vast city, with close proximity to several lakes and parks containing hiking trails and many other recreational activities. Down town Oklahoma City is a popular choice with its many museums, such as the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. With a well…

In “The Big Burn” by Timothy Egan, the story revolves around the wildfire of 1910 that completely destroyed the whole town of Wallace and the people who fought for the sake of the blaze. This wildfire was the biggest, not the deadliest, in the history of the United States. Numerous people have sacrificed their lives in the service of the great fire in order to fight and preserve their people and town. However, the contribution of the 25th Infantry, known as the Buffalo soldiers, was the greatest…

hygiene and the transmission of disease throughout the city. The premise of a new sewage system would entail redirecting all waste into the Seine and into reservoirs, which would remove a large portion of human wastes from the streets: Paris’s gleaming new sewers featured tall inclined galleries, numerous reservoirs, and most of all tremendous…