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Urban refers to the built up space of a central city and its suburbs. It has a lack of agricultural area and is distinctly non-rural. Urban geography has four subfields that will be discussed in this summary. The first is the history of urbanization. Next, is intraurban geography, followed by interurban geography. The final subfield is urban planning and policy. Why do people live in cities and when did they start? Before urbanization, people where clustered in agricultural villages and were…

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The…

I live over fifteen miles from the small town that I would consider my hometown. While the distance between myself and Auburn, Indiana is large I have been closely influenced by the small town’s values of hard work and tradition. With the city being founded around the manufacturing of the Auburn Automobile, today the town takes pride in the museum to honor the traditions of the company. When visitors come to my town I would invite them to the Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg museum. The town is proud of…

Sound which is a body of water that is an extension of the Pacific Ocean. It is also surrounded by Lake Washington to it’s east. Even though Seattle isn’t the capital of Washington because it’s located to the very south west, it’s still named a major city because of it’s location and it’s advantages. Seattle is surrounded by mountains on either side, so it has mild temperature with cool summers and warm winters. Seattle is also pretty high above sea level. The industry is based on aerospace and…

large cities overall have better economies. “Scientific American” said in another article titled “Bigger Cities do More with Less” that “If eight million people all live in one city, their economic output will typically be about 15% greater than if the same eight million people lived in two cities half the size.” (Bettencourt & West, Scientific American). If more people living in a city is better for the economy, with 8 million in one city is 15% better economically than 8 million in two cities,…

Urbanization refers to the process of raising population growth in cities and rural, it also includes the rise of industrialization. The government, industry and business deal in urban areas are involved.The United States and Europe had started their urbanization since the 19th century. On the other hand, by the end of 2014, 54.7% of China’s total population live in the urban areas, which is a rate that rose from 26% in 1990. They are currently experiencing a rapid increase. Yet, urbanization…

planning which has the purpose of “[setting] up a system of how to develop communities” according to Michael Eisner, chairman and chief executive of Disney from 1984 to 2005 (Frantz and Collins 8). The city of Celebration in Florida is an example of intentional community that can inspire ideal cities of the future to increase the sense of community that has almost completely disappeared. The Disney Company’s critique towards our current way of living in a community guided them to find a solution…

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…

dislike them . They mess up peoples tires and alignments . City of Anderson needs to raise taxes to fix them. They need to do right the first time so know one has anything negative to say. People complain about the roads , that should persuade the city fix it . The city worries about other things like new cop cars , new stop lights & water pipes. But not fixing the terrible roads . Poor roads cause half of auto accidents in United States . Potholes and ice-over stretches of highway cause…

of the United States you live in, for the most part people value good manners, morals, and politeness when dealing with others. However, as Elijah Anderson’s book explains, there is a different 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…