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consideration the message they wanted to send across symbolically and physically. For example, O'Connell Street has probably the most public monuments situated on it, compared to the rest of Dublin or even Ireland, this was done purposely due to the fact that city planners were aware of the volume of public that would pass through that particular street in a day as it still does up to this date. It is also very important to state that the…

Rural The United States Census Bureau defines rural by first identifying two types of urban areas. Those areas are urbanized areas (UAs) with a population of 50,000 or more people, and urban clusters (UCs) with a population of at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people. Therefore, rural consists of all populations, housing, and territory that do not fall into the category of an urbanized area or an urban cluster (Geography, 2015). In the fact sheet titled Strengthening the Rural Economy - The…

and Sparta are both well-known cities that associated themselves with the Greeks and Greece. To this day most people can tell you at least were Sparta and Athens was located. The issue was that these two cities were major rivals and quite different. Sparta was very militaristic city that focused heavily on gaining more land and power for their city and for Greece. They required that all men join the military and help during wars. Sparta was known more as a laid back city that did worried about…

Board of Education verdict, a shift in population began to ensue in every major city. People began moving to suburbs just on the outskirts of cities. “From 1960 to 1968, an estimated two million whites, most of whom were relatively young, middle and upper-income families, moved into suburban areas” (Davies, Fowler 153). During this time period, Caucasians flooded out of the cities to suburbs where they were able to afford better houses for their money and live in predominantly,…

make a city characteristic for what it is. Cityness is also defined by the level of connectedness, the actors which create a meaning for an environment using deep societal constructs, and urban factors, such as livability. The high levels of urbanization are a leading threat towards livability by creating poor social and environmental conditions. This section will explain the aspects of cityness that are of interest to the authors. Evans (2002), gives light to the linkage between the city and…

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…

As stated previously, as a result of the growth in some areas of Southern Pennsylvania, there are real and important differences between rural and urban communities due to a difference in their geographic cultures. As an advanced generalist practice social worker, it is important to stress that social workers in rural communities frequently work with individuals hosting a variety of problems. These problems include, but are not limited to, lack of public transportation, limited resources, and…

Because of these numerous health problems that can come along with living in the suburbs, people who live in them are known to not be as health and their city dwelling counterparts, “Findings suggest that an adult who lives in a more sprawling urban area will have a health profile similar to someone four years older who lives in a more compact city” (Wilson). Health problems, along with the loss of farmland and the fact that researchers have observed that urban sprawl is still expanding, should…

After reading The Sprawl Debate and the Principles of New Urbanism the topic that really stood out to me was mixed land uses and its increase in density. In the Sprawl Debate Article it explains how new urbanist communities are meant to be more than subdivisions. Its plans are to have an open organized row of services and workplace locations by only developing a broad mix of land. Now this idea can be viewed as either a Pro or Con. Sprawl Debate: Viewing the article the overall statement was…

Gentrification can be a positive cause or a negative cause. Sometimes it can be both. Gentrification has multiple outcomes like improvements with the devolvement for the communities, it also can create revenue for the city, and want more positive outcomes. Some may differ to these outcomes and might think this is bad for the communities and thinking more of the old tradition and not more of the money it can provide for others. Old houses built in the early 1900’s could use some new-modern look…