Greater Toronto Area

Urbanism in the United States was impossible to avoid for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons was the new opportunities the city had to offer many individuals because of the growing development of the city. Urbanism for instance, brought many new opportunities from employment, lifestyle, and changes to the city. A new experience many people had never seen before or had access to. Urbanism aside from all the different opportunities it brought to the city with the new developments created a…

Imagine standing in a line at a store preparing to pay for your items and right before it is your turn to checkout, a couple cuts in front of you. Even though it sounds unlikely, this exact scenario happened to me while standing in line at a local Wal-Mart in Tallahassee. While standing with a surprised look on my face, I watched the couple slowly walk up and place their items on the belt to proceed to checkout. Many emotions traveled through my mind as I witnessed the couple cut in front of…

streetcar enabled mobilization so people had more choices about where to live which triggered growth outside of the city. Jackson further illustrates this point stating, “the tracks radiated out from the center like spokes on a wheel, tying residential areas far distant to the…

On December 23, 2016, This American Life originally aired Act One: Lopsided Tannenbaum, which was a piece of fiction read by the author, Maile Meloy. The story begins with a husband and wife, along with their four year-old daughter, Anne Marie, returning home from collecting a lopsided Christmas tree when they happen upon a couple stranded in the snow, one of which is holding a broken ski. Everett, the husband, stopped to assist the couple and see what they needed, Bonnie and Clyde. As Everett…

builders do not want to build within these smart growth areas then they…

after several decades that they can largely reflect in those newly developing cities in China. Urbanization has been a constant trend lasting for decades. In the book, Mumford lists three characteristics illustrating the growth of megacities: number, area, and population (Mumford, 1961). As cities are attracting an increasing…

“Urbanisation is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities.” – Li Keqiang, Premier of People’s Republic of China (Independent, 2012) In nineteenth century, England has faced an enormous and rapid growth of urban population. In-migrants, people from rural areas of England and Wales, were moving to larger, industrial cities, such as London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester. In one century, the population of London, for example, increased from…

public? Jefferson himself claimed that living in rural areas granted Americans, “health, virtue, and freedom.” This form of anti-urban bias transformed into the preference of owning one 's own land and eventually the single family home ideal. Single family homes are the number one priority in the United States, a position that is not echoed by any other country. Housing ideals lead to practices like zoning, that keep homes out of harmful areas of industry or waste, as well as protecting land…

Today, over half of the world’s 7 billion population are living in urban environments with this number forecasted to increase to 2/3 by 2030 (UN 2004). The development of urban areas involves destruction of forests and other native bird habitats, which can lead to a loss of diversity and abundance of birds and native plants that can no longer survive in the new environment. This is troubling as birds perform certain ecosystem services, services humans can benefit from, such as pollination,…

proglottids are ingested. Once the eggs are hatched, they become an onchospheres that penetrates the intestinal wall allowing the cysticercus to form in different organs throughout the body. Cysticercosis is primarily found in low-social economic areas in Latin America, Asia, and Africa within insalubrious…