City councils

readings one can see that Urban II used family and God to convince people to fight for their brothers and sisters in Christ, end injustice, and do for God and their ancestors what has been done for them. In the beginning of Urban II’s speech located at Council of Clermont titled Fulcher of Chartres, Urban II was speaking kindly to the audience. He did not claim that the people were far from God and were in need for someone to save…

Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or Holy War. Pope Urban ii called a meeting to deal with the religious issues, to free the Holy Land from the Turks. He form an army and head to Jerusalem, to have a Crusade. Anyone killed on this quest would go to directly to heaven. Some of the first responders were Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, whose followers were some of the poor from Germany and France. They would soon destroy the Muslims and the Holy Land. This would…

As a group, we will be presenting on traffic as an ongoing problem within the city of Houston. Illustrated through our speech will be a comparison of Houston’s traffic to other cities in the United States. We will also discuss current plans to alleviate the issue and how it is working out for us as a city, future plans to help with our cities traffic congestion, as well as other possible outcomes that we as Houstonians have yet to look into. We will go into detail with each section to explain…

Rural poverty affects 10 million people living across the United States (Housing Assistance Council 2014). Rural poverty differs from urban poverty. Rural poverty occurs in on Native American Reservations, in the Deep South, and in the Appalachian Mountain region. Communities affected by rural poverty have similar conditions affecting residents such as drug use. Rural poverty concentrates in certain areas of the United States where there is little to no opportunities and leads to problems such…

Introduction: Since the reform and opening-up policy was released in 1978, the Chinese rural-to-urban migration has become a very important social phenomenon. Large quantities of surplus labor forces in countryside, which come into being migrant workers, flocked into China 's busiest and most international metropolises. According to (Chan, 2011), “In the 30 years since 1979, China’s urban population has grown by about 440 million to 622 million in 2009” (p.1). In the rapid-growing urban…

surround it. Scottsdale’s community values include the preservation of its uniqueness and heritage, the connectivity to surrounding neighborhoods, having efficient transportation options, and the social, environmental and economical sustainability of the city as a whole. It strives to be a community that has high standards of appearance and aesthetics while also encouraging human connection and interaction among the open space throughout. The vision of Scottsdale is to provide the community with…

division where cities were considered the “urban wilderness”, places of crime, danger, corruption and disorder (Boyce, 2004; Smith, 1996). The emergence of gentrification arose at a time when the imagery of cities transformed from anti-urbanization to a romanticized sentiment, saturated with language and ideas of the frontier. In the preface of “The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the revanchist city” by Neil Smith (1996), he describes how the influx of “urban pioneers” into cities can be…

Riverside, CA—General Plan Analysis and 30-Year Strategy Context Riverside City is located in Southern California. It was founded during the mission days under Spanish rule in the early 1800s, when ranchos (land grands) were offered to citizens of high standing. The downtown design was a grid iron pattern borrowed from the design of downtown Philadelphia . The city benefitted from the “second gold rush” of California; navel oranges were a cash crop in the area. The citrus industry assisted in…

when people move from rural to urban areas, so that the proportion of people living in cities increases while the proportion of people living in rural areas diminishes” (Boundless, par.1). Lately, the world is experiencing the largest wave of urban growth in history, and more than half of the world’s population nowadays is living in towns and cities. It is believed that by 2030, the number of people living in cities will “swell to about 5 billion” (UNFPA, par.1). Further, the United Nation…

In 2012, when the Premier of the State Council, Li Keqiang, said to the People’s Daily that, “Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of the cities. More importantly it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment, and social security” (Bloomberg). A Streetcar Named Desire is a play centered in New Orleans surrounding the struggles between the Kowalski family and Blanche.…