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faced prosecution or might be killed if they return to their home country. Within sanctuary cities, immigrants are allowed to come in and work the jobs Americans may not prefer to work. They are also free from the threat of being deported back to an area that they are fearful of just because they are an immigrant. The idea of sanctuary cities is not new. The idea…

The last century has seen the rapid growth of the urban areas which is likely to be one of the milestones in the current ages. Also known as the urbanization process, this situation is defined by the unprecedented rural population shift to the cities which stems from the Modern period as a result of the Industrial Revolution. However, the key aspect is the universal nature of the issue which has effect on an exceptional transformation in a global scale but on a drastically impact in the social,…

Mia Knudsen, 10.i What is urbanisation? Urbanisation is the process of increase of population in urban areas. As a country develops urbanisation increases due to people being attracted to the benefits of living in an urban area. These benefits include job opportunities, better standards of living, better healthcare, and better schools. 90% of the UKs population is currently living in urban areas like towns or cities. (BBC Bitesize, 2014) Along with the benefits, urbanisation has several…

Decades ago and even nowadays, urbanization was and still remains a trend which has influenced people worldwide. “Urbanization occurs when people move from rural to urban areas, so that the proportion of people living in cities increases while the proportion of people living in rural areas diminishes” (Boundless, par.1). Lately, the world is experiencing the largest wave of urban growth in history, and more than half of the world’s population nowadays is living in towns and cities. It is…

Gendered Response to Urban Poverty and Inequality A Case Study of SDI 1. Introduction Urbanisation has accelerated in the global scale, especially in the Global South, with the urban population growing rapidly due to both natural growth and rural-urban migration. The living condition and lifestyles of people are changing along with different situations in transport, housing, employment and infrastructures. However, in the process of urbanisation, people of different genders, religions and…

and small towns differentiate from one another in three main aspects which are in their numbers, density, and heterogeneity (Wirth, 1969). Urban environments have various cultures and create more relations within the people that is due to the urban areas size and diversity and the fact that they are less restrictive, therefore providing more freedom for individuals.…

Introduction: The world is urbanizing rapidly; the present population living in urban areas is 54%. The more urban an area, the more concretized it is. Urban areas are quite warmer than the rural counterpart, the natural ecosystems are being replaced by buildings and other structures. There is significant temperature differences between city centers and their surrounding countryside and surface temperatures can be much greater in high density suburbs compared to low-density suburbs; the reason…

(Tuñón, 2006). Migration into urban areas has created overcrowding, increased competition for resources and congestion in transportations. The rural areas deserted by the migrants faced new challenges in development such as slow economic growth and shortage of labour force. This would lead to further divergence in the development level between urban and rural places. This would lead to more workers moving into urban areas looking for job opportunities…

In the documentary Megacities Reflect Growing Urbanization Trend it tells of the growing trends of migrants to major cities for a better life and even though most migrants move to city slums, the slums offer a better life than the home they left behind. They are many social issues that people face as the city slums grows in size such as over crowed population, lack of housing, polluted water, lack of electricity and food. Although the wealthy are affected by the over crowed population and…

The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem (BGCGS) is a nonprofit organization which provides children of all ages a safe and positive place where numerous programs enable the children to reach their fullest potential. BGCGS operates with a strong understanding of what children need in order to succeed. For instance, all programs and activities are created to foster key competencies essential for youth to succeed, such as educational, social, emotional, cultural, health and well-being, positive…