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community and getting know what’s going on the county, and how Rantoul, Champaign and Urbana are working with each other. In the end, I do spend time working with small villages. Can you describe your experience in working with City Council? I worked in Champaign City Manager’s Office for 25 years and my primary responsibility was to be the connection between private business and our council. A big chunk of my time was in relationship building and I also used to spend more time working on…

Beatley 's book, Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities. Beatley mentions cities such as Sweden, Zurich, and the Netherlands. Europeans have successfully applied the idea of eco villages to their cities. According to Timothy Beatley, in Sweden homes are built on pillars to minimize the impact on nature and look like they are floating on air, as well as owning up to 60 of its own farms that are available to the public. Beatley states," that one quarter of Zurich is in forest and that their…

Employment opportunity, prosperity and other factors are the main reason why people start to move to Cities. Nowadays, a half of the world population is already residing in urban areas. By 2050, two-third of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. Urbanization is a word for becoming a city. It also means people shifting from rural to urban areas. Urbanization happens in all over places in the world, and it brings both positive and negative effects to societies. Urbanization has…

present so that you can do something about it now. The discipline of planning and architecture is a very important discipline given the context of our present capital of J&K State, Srinagar. The city is rapidly urbanizing, people are leaving their villages and migrating to cities in large numbers. When they migrate to cities, one of the common problems they face is of housing. Urban housing, especially for the urban poor will become a major challenge in the future. If we do not plan for the…

Abstract Urban Sprawl is an issue that a lot of cities are facing in different terms which causing other planning issues in cities; such as, traffic, lack schools, shortness in public and health services, and more. The case that will be discussed in this paper is Tucson City located in Arizona state. The Sonoran Desert is preventing Tucson from sprawling, and historically Tucson used to have urban growth boundaries that was abandoned before the 80s, later City of Tucson decided to control urban…

own individual problems in each community. Although there issues differ, in some way they affect the development of the community. During the first interview on rural areas, Bud Nornes speaks about his experiences growing up in a rural community. He states that agriculture is a very big part of the economy. Presently, there are not as many small farm families. Families are getting bigger and the smaller farm families are branching off to find jobs in other areas. The larger farm families take on…

Gentrification describes the migration of affluent individuals to a low-income area, which often causes displacement of the less fortunate residents. These newcomers migrate for several different reasons. Some simply desire to live in the city, while others are forced to relocate for their careers (Byrne 407). Others may want to live in a historic area filled with antique architecture (Campanella). Housing status usually plays an important role in buying the perfect home. Therefore, people…

THE LOST CITY- MACHU PICCHU, PERU & THE HIDDEN CITY OF TOMBS - PETRA, JORDAN Similarities The book that I have appointed, exhibits various ruins throughout the globe which even observers today can’t reason about. Two of these wretched ruins come together to debate its similarities and differences. The Lost City in Machu Picchu, Peru and The Hidden…

are saddened with loving the nature part of Bend, but not having the big city feel they want. There is no clear way to make everyone happy, but, if you could make parts of Bend feel like a big city, while make others have a smaller town, and keep other parts of the town the same. Then that might just be the best way to make everyone happy. If we could find a way to make different parts of Bend feel like a small town, big city, and a medium size town, the family that moved all the way from…

There are many different systems in each country around the world, some of which were created to benefit the economy as a whole while some others were created to benefit some specific classes or individuals. Hukou system in China or household registration system in the country was created to prevent exodus from the rural areas to the urban areas just for the sake of better living standard, and job opportunities. The system was created in 1958 after the victory of Chairman Mao revolution since…