City council

Research has shown that for more than 50 years now, a drastic change in the population transitioning from cities to the suburbs has been occurring. After 1950, this movement originally gained momentum and become the leading demographic style for nearly all-crucial U.S. metropolitan areas. This migration has pushed many more Americans to live in the suburbs now than any other location in the states. Today, a good amount of middle-class African Americans have moved out to the suburbs but the…

like me, so I can get a house or something in the suburbs of Chicago. It’s a small town named Glenview, it seems to be beautiful. Since we live in such an isolated area I suppose you haven’t ever been to a city… Well in cities there are suburbs and a suburb is a neighborhood outside of a city with loads of houses. There looks like a lot of them are being built around here. It's been nice owning a home. I’ve been using what I have been earning from my job to buy a new car and add a pool to my…

carry with me the awareness that many don’t realize the true scope of: the situation in inner cities. During my four years at Habitat for Humanity in Newark, every time I volunteered there I saw the stark contrast of the environment and atmosphere compared to my comfortable suburban neighborhood. After watching the media and seeing what is usually represented, I realized that the situation in the inner cities cannot be fully realized until you experience it for yourself. Until you speak…

Forest is one of the pros. Another pro is the cost of living is significantly below the national average. Also, the fine arts community is featured in The 100 Best Small Towns in America. Additionally Hot Springs Village is only 15 miles north of the city of Hot Springs. The cons consist of health care and population. There is only five hospitals with 505 bed and the population is 48,000. With the population being so high, why wouldn't you have more hospitals? Additionally,…

Gentrification is a process of social change traditionally applied to urban areas. It involves upscaling building, infrastructure and accompanying changes in its social composition (Phillips,2005), which tends to impact the lower income neighborhoods. The term ‘gentrification’ was first used by Ruth Glass while observing the social structure and housing markets in certain areas of inner London in 1964. The purpose of this essay will be to examine the positive and negative aspects of…

Ryan loved eating hot and spicy things especially hot sauce and ketchup which he couldn’t go a day without but still he hadn’t found the perfect hot ketchup that would be so hot and spicy that it brought tears to his eyes .But this was about to change , as he was waiting for the stop light to turn green, his gaze shifted to this big billboard . He was immediately intrigued by what he saw – is this the hot ketchup he was waiting for. Heinz is a famous for its ketchup , and in recent years it…

Coming from a populated city and area I was intrigued at the opportunity to learn about something that would be completely new to me. I grew up barely outside of Rochester Minnesota, which is an hour and a half south of the cities. Rochester, as I see it, is a city within a rural area. My definition and your definition of rural are two completely different things. Thus, when you first asked us to describe three words that we thought of when we heard the term rural I put down: Farm, Farmer, and…

Puerto Ricans found themselves living in uninhabitable buildings (Suarez 277). “ By 1955 seven hundred thousand Puerto Ricans had moved to the continental United States, and most of them went to New York” (Suarez 275). During this time the New York City was being rebuilt in other words gentrification was occurring. According to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary gentrification is defined as the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into…

to gut the middle of most American cities. As the 1970’s wore on a plethora of reasons such as crime, job losses, and racism made them all the more attractive. Cities appeared to be dying. Then a strange thing happened, in the mid-1990’s crime began to drop rapidly and people began moving back to cities. Today cities like New York that were on the brink of collapse are thriving. Even stranger, because of the recession post 2000 poverty had moved out from the city and into suburbs. There are…

Small Town Communities Living in a small rural community like Ellendale has been a great influence on my life. The small town life has been fun and makes me want to come back. The ability to ride bike from one side of the town to the other is also another convenience of living in this community. The support for local sports teams in small towns is also very good. Families and people who don’t have kids playing still come and cheer on their hometown team. It creates a very good relationship…