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areas like: Queen Anne, Washington Park, Laurelhurst, Windermere, Madrona, Madison Park, Green Lake, Ravenna, Capitol Hill and Broadmoor. Seattle is consistently one of the strongest realty markets in the U.S. Some believe this is because the Emerald City cultivates a hip culture that attracts all ages with its laid-back lifestyle, inclusive community, proximity to natural splendor, as well as vibrant music and arts scenes. Others credit the city’s alluring neighborhoods that feature homes for…

In todays world, there are more and more instances of gentrification happening. Gentrification is movement of people with low income housing out of neighborhoods to make the movement of the more wealthy come in. This allows the rich to create skyscrapers, businesses and government run operations such as research facilities and hospitals. The neighborhoods tend to get more physically improved by means of less crime. Many of the former residents get displaced and have troubles finding another…

there was a growth of cities never experienced before in the Northeast and Midwest regions of America. This rapid urbanization was caused by a great amount of immigration to the United States, and by improvements in the farming industry. Even though immigration and inventions helped to increase the rate at which cities grew, rapid urbanization brought many problems having to do with housing, transportation, water distribution, crime, and fire. To counter these problems, city governments and…

Low explains in “The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear“, a spatial analysis of the city prominently brings up separations and conflicts in both the center and the edge of the city (Low 2003, 387). Globally, cities are divided into different areas, segre-gated by cultural or racial differences and tensions. It is interesting to see how cities across the planet deal with issues that result from social pres-sures, cultural contexts and rapid globalization. For…

Asef Bayat in his article “City inside out” has proposed that cities like Cairo and Beirut are undergoing through a new form of urban public space, where, poor people tend to reappropriate the space from rich in Middle East region. Such urbanized public space’s new version, where, public-ness levels of the city consider is as “inside out” in literal meaning, where poor public is left with no option other than ensuring a heavy outdoor presence on city streets and where rich people’s response is…

move into big cities to get better educations and get a better job. However, compared to cities, living in rural areas is safer for people because those who are living in the countryside live in longer life than urban people, have an atmosphere of people and not dangerous. Therefore, many retired people move into the countryside. One of the most important reasons why rural areas are less safe is rural area people live in longer life than live in urban people. Nowadays, people in cities have…

chickens only have one hole?!” I don’t know if I was aware of that particular fact until I started raising chickens. We really don’t know anything about our food. At least many of us city folk don’t. I can’t speak for everyone, of course. Then, there’s…

A Rhetorical Analysis on “Suburb or Nothing” in the Memphis Flyer What should the relationship be between the suburbs and the city? The very small editorial in the Memphis Flyer gives somewhat efficient details on the term “Suburb of Nothing” originated and quoted by Mayor Mick Cornett. The writer of the article in the Commercial Appeal’s, “Suburb of Nothing”, effectively argues his/her point via the use of organization, formal tone and appeals to authority. Doing so, the writer gives history,…

Big City Girl, Small Town Woman Jennifer, or Jen as some like to call her, was born July 24th, 1970, in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois. Jen Townsend was the name she grew up with through out her high school and college career, but on October 7th, 1995, her life changed when she married David Claeys, a man from a town smaller than the size of her entire high school. They met at Western Illinois University, where she attended college, and majoring in business. After about three years…

perspective, what thoughts come to mind when they think of a city? Overcrowded? Unsanitary? Crime Infested? Can you imagine what makes a crowded area to have negative image? Bad traffic, unfriendly environments to raise children, an education that impacts the youth from fulfilling a successful school experience and the scenery of a rural area make the city a dangerous place to live. A part of rural residents have an opinion that the city is an unhealthy place to raise their children. For…