Global city

With the growth of the protestant religion and the Reformation in the period 1500 – 1650, different religious communities and areas grew within cities. This drove the growing unrest and crisis in Europe. There was at least one war in progress in Europe during the early 1700s, including the thirty years war. “The Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) began when the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Bohemia…

What are some of the key factors which have driven and facilitated urban development over time? Referring to examples from New Zealand and other countries, explain some of the different types of contemporary cities. Introduction Urban development is constantly growing in today’s society due to the world’s population growth and many people are wanting to live in Urban areas opposed to rural areas. In the 30 year period between 2000 and 2030 the UN has estimated that the world population will…

people in the urban areas, but a huge influx of people,mainly immigrants, into the cities. Due to that, many discrepancies were made in how society worked in the time, which led to people having to adapt into the new way of life that they were offered. This meant that you could either become powerful, stay in the place you are, or accommodate the new way of living. One of the ways people gained power within cities and the governments, were political machines, and the people who controlled…

The White Tiger is a bombardment of an illusion marketed by an American advertising agency named Grey Global group in deliberation with the Indian business magnets and government that post colonial India is shinning and rising. The novel depicts various pictures of globalized India where the plight of the impoverished people agitate the dominant pictures…

trees have played a role in humans’ lives, not just actively but passively as well. In the past trees were mostly a resource to be cut down and used to build, but today with global pollution rising, they are more important than ever to combat rising CO2 levels. Forests are being knocked down to make way for suburbs and cities, but still trees find a new home amidst the urbanization. Topics to be considered in urban tree growth are effects of trees on society, the rate of growth of trees in the…

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…

food access, leadership performance, employment, and well being. The Gallup Senior Scientist help with the development with the statistics Gallup gathers in the countries of the world that it surveys. The World Poll surveys includes more than 100 global questions as well as the region specific questions. The World Poll asks questions all the way from California to Germany in the exact same way to see how the people would answer it. Doing it this way makes it possible to find the trend…

Vulnerable populations The vulnerable populations in China are those who live in rural areas of China, women, and children. Rural-urban differences in China has presented some unique challenges for rural China. As China economy increased so did the gap between rural and urban China and this illustrates institutional legacies of socialism. During the period of rapid industrialization, the Communist Party leaders implemented policies that made a clear distinction between the two by directing…

According to the lecture from week ten, the definition of urban area is the field where it is surrounding a city and it has a high population density. Most of the urban areas are well-developed meaning there is a condensed collection of human structures, such as buildings, public infrastructure, real estate, labour markets, sites of production and consumption. In the book The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, it shows the book occurs in the future and it has negative affects about the…

People may not agree with the explanations, but most are credible, such as global warming, deforestation and greenhouse gases. Between 1500 and 1650, however, there was no science to explain the weather. Historians now call this period the mini ice age, with the coldest period being the 17th century. Indications were that the…