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    The three areas of poverty are urban, suburban, and rural. Urban poverty is mainly city or inner city poverty. Some places with urban poverty would include, Camden, New Jersey or Patterson, New Jersey. Rural poverty is more out West where theres more farming. Finally, suburban poverty is poverty that is in more suburban areas like Caldwell, New Jersey. In each area, there are challenges. For example, in urban areas, there is more concentrated violence. Many urban areas have gang related issues…

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    nonprofit arts organizations at here and try to find out their unique ways to manage the organizations. There are some really distinguishable and successful arts organizations at Bloomington, and due to people’s urgent needs of arts and music, the city also created a district, which is called Bloomington Entertainment & Arts District (BEAD) in 2008. There many different nonprofit organizations that are included in this area and it is definitely a great attraction to more nonprofit organizations…

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    INTRO This research project explores how interactions promoted through thoughtful architecture may be beneficial when placing a low-income project in an area consisting largely of high- to medium-income population. The location initially selected for the project is on the corner of 23rd Ct. and Ray Street, which is a site that presents interesting circumstances. With a bowl-like topography where the site grades down ten feet from street level, it houses a beautiful array of ponderosa pine…

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    Case Study: The Woodlands

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    The Woodlands TX Homes For Sale Twenty-eight miles north of Houston, where the Hardy toll road spills onto I-45, find yourself in the heart of The Woodlands TX. The Woodlands, TX real estate agents call this “The Number One Master Planned Community” of TX. Officially celebrating its Grand Opening in 1974, The Woodlands now consists of ten “villages” bordering each other and skillfully plotted into the beauty of the Piney Woods along wooded parks, greenbelts, and hiking/biking trails. Today…

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    background. "What does a town that’s been to hell and back know about the finer things in life?" The narrator says. It then starts to jump back and forth from the clip of the car to the life of Detroit (people showing their athletic talents and their city art work). Towards the end Eminem is revealed as the driver and pulls up to a theatre. From the outside you heard a choir. He…

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    Statement of the Task I have been invited to act as a research consultant, specialising in urban geography and development, to assist the development of Casavela, a fictional urban slum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I have been appointed four million US dollars to spend over the period of two years to improve the social and environmental issues the community faces. I must make educated decisions, prioritising problems based on need and necessity within the community, in order to improve the quality of…

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    revitalized neighborhoods and higher rent segregated residents from one another based on income, and resultantly, race. Lower income, minority families searching for affordable housing must move further into the suburbs, and further from the epicenter of a city, where most people work. These families are now dependent upon private transportation and are responsible for incurring all costs coinciding. “Drive ‘Till You Qualify” is a temporary solution to the much bigger issue of transportation,…

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    While Elizabethan England was on the rise to greatness, the number of poor and peasant citizens was also rising. All of these poor people were burdening communities in one way or another. Since poor citizens were becoming such an issue, the city of Norwich decided they needed to take a census and research their city’s people. The census revealed multiple things including that, 2395 of Norwich’s 10,625 people were considered poor, 300 people were in hospitals or poorhouses, 926 were under the age…

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    Cities everywhere throughout the world are always showing signs of change to adjust to the inhabitants that live in them. As cities develop they must be meticulous to profit the current inhabitants and the planet. The expression, Next generation city characterizes a city that has qualities, which regard both the individuals and the land. A next generation city must be the result of people developing and building conveniently and productively. And in addition, being an example for other cities to…

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    Compact cities can prevent many problems that urban sprawl brings to cities. The United States, unlike the UK or Japan, has encouraged urban sprawl with its policies based on the free market capitalism. As a result, in American cities, as suburbanization accerelates, economic segregation has also been expanded and thus, many economic and social inequality issues have been emerged. In contrast to a compact city, which is highly dense and mixed-use, urban sprawl is explained as a low-density land…

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