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Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1910, (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press), “Part.4 ‘The Progressive and the City’, pp.189-292.” Zwia Lipkin, Useless to the State: Social Problems and Social Enginerring in Nanjing, 1927-1937 (Harvard University Asia Centre, 2006). Useless to the State written by Zwia Lipkin’s investigates the history and urban development of Nanjing between 1927-1937 and recounts in detail how the Nationalist aimed to boost the image of the…

century of urban revolution. The population of many cities has been growing exponentially, and cities are urbanising rapidly. Hence, many cities like Singapore, New York, and Tokyo are facing the issue of scarcity of land. One might say that many countries have abundant land in the form of forests and farms, which can be transformed into an urban land someday, but land is not created equal. Singapore and Hong Kong are of the most densely populated cities in the world but with limited land area,…

Some people prefer to live in the small town where they grew up in and some prefer the big city, where there’s tons of excitement and plenty of things to do. Small towns are secluded, stress-free, and traditional for some. There are plenty of advantages of living in a small town compared then living in a big city. Living in a quiet, friendly environment where you know all of your neighbors because most of you grew up together. People never have to worry about crime happening or something serious…

Small Town Living Both Colby and Our Town are both small towns, but they both have their differences. Our Town has a population “within the city limits: 2, 640” (Wilder 15) and colby has a population of 5,419. Our Town is a little bit smaller than Colby, but they both show similar characteristics. In small towns everyone knows almost everyone who lives there. This can be good and bad because with everyone knowing each other, news spread like a wildfire. If people do something big everyone will…

According to Learning and Urban Education.com, urban education refers to the schooling system in metropolitan communities. They are typically diverse; characterized by large enrollments and high levels of complexity. Two films that depict narratives involving urban schools and the interaction between students and teachers are Freedom Writers and Precious Knowledge. The Hollywood produced movie, Freedom Writers, illustrate the diversity and partitioned setting of a typical urban schooling system.…

The city of Los Angeles is one of the most well know cities in the world not just for the fame and lifestyle, but because of the cultures that have been introduced and expanded into society today. In the novel , “Jumped In What Gangs Taught Me About, Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption” by Jorja Leap, exposes us to a culture involving gangs and neighborhoods. Culture is something that is very strong and determines what we do and what we enjoy. For instance, gang members embrace their tattoos…

means that the departments must break its jurisdiction into larger zones and may not be able to place more than one unit in each zone. This means that officers are further away from back up and response times may be longer than those experienced in the city. Rural departments are unlikely to afford specialized units meaning that bomb disposal, drug cases, and special victims crimes must be handled by either regular units or an outside element. This trend of requiring outside assistance is…

so that they can be rented to migrants and used by extended families (Genemo, 2012). Over the years, urban sprawl has directly contributed to the degradation and decline of natural environment resources. It also reduces farm land and productivity in city leading to social loss and open spaces (Haregewin, 2005). In addition, urban sprawl leads to regional imbalance, such as pulling jobs and people further away from poor communities, increasing in equality. Recently, the problem of urban sprawl…

planning approaches are needed to build a city into a smart city. Smart cities are the cities that are able to operate in a sustainable, efficient and intelligent manner and require smart infrastructure with advanced sensing capabilities that extend beyond mere technical subtitles, thereby possibly benefitting architects and citizens of the cities. It means smart citizens can make intelligent cities. It relies on the idea that only citizens can make a city really intelligent. It needs to be…

Urban sociology studies the life and human interactions in the city. The social life in the twenty first century consists of both the traditional and familiar trends as well as the new developing trends (Sassen, 2006). Hence, living in the cities is always exciting as well as complicated. Dhaka is a city which has a history of more than 400 years. In 1610, Dhaka was named as Jahangirnagar by subedar Islam Khan Chishti. Many of the famous infrastructures were built during the British and Mughal…