Metropolitan Toronto

The industrial age has change how the world is being structured. During the agricultural age, the land was mainly used to produce food for sustaining both human and animals. As we moved into the industrial, factories and city centers began being built. There arose a need for adequate living arrangements for the people that worked in the factories and city centers. Urban areas designed to accommodate large numbers of families began to spring up around these factories and city centers. Fast…

Urban development in Apia Introduction Apia is the capital city of Samoa and the largest city in the Pacific. In Apia, there is a trend that 40% of population are looking forward to live in urban area. And the rate of urban growth will be continued to increase (Pacific island populations in Jones article, 2001). Urban population, density of house and waste from industries are all rise continually. Due to the increasing of pressure of urbanization and the lack of effective management solutions,…

For the past few decades, suburbanization of population and employment has been easily observed in large metropolitan areas all over the world, which is generally referred to as “sprawl”. This phenomenon has accompanied not only the spatial redistribution of population, but also the geographical relocation of firms, which has brought about several urban problems – for instance, severe traffic congestion due to the growing distance between jobs and housing, inefficient energy consumption due to…

country, with only 17 percent of the population living in urban areas (Nepal census, 2011), Nepal is urbanizing rapidly. With a population of 26.6 million people, the Kathmandu Valley is growing at the 4.7 percent per year, one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in South Asia. However, urbanization brings challenge; especially in the developing countries in terms of improving the urban environment and the living condition. Urbanization leads to the emergence of commercial and industrial…

Public Transportation Systems for Urban Areas Objective: Introduction: 1. Urban Public Transportation Systems: Cities and metropolitan areas are centers of diverse activities, which require efficient and convenient transportation of persons and gods. It is often said that transportation is the lifeblood of cities. High density of activities makes it possible and necessary that high capacity modes, such as bus, light rail and metro, be used because they are more economical, more energy efficient…

Heartland Homes. Ryan Homes and Fox Ridge Homes’ primary market are first time and move-up buyers. Ryan Homes operates in 27 metropolitan areas located in Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, North and South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee. Fox Ridge Homes operates in the Nashville, Tennessee metropolitan area. On the other spectrum, NVHomes and Heartland Homes’ primary targeted market are to move-up and…

they lived all over east Africa. Because of this they were accustomed to living in a foreign country. They overall had an interesting immigration to Canada which I would like to share with you. My parents arrived in Canada on August, 15, 2001 at Toronto Pearson airport. Coming from an overcrowded city such as Mumbai, India they were surprise as how low density the GTA was. They first lived in Scarborough. They came to Canada in search of better opportunity, and a better…

carding of minorities, discrediting the fact that ‘Black Lives Matter’ (Banting, 2010, p.45). Rankin says that a theme in the series was “how do we make people care?” In terms of carding, Rankin discusses that a slim proportion of people carded in Toronto are white, again with no good reason. Rankin said that public understanding that carding affects everyone but disproportionally black men, is a stepping stone to ignite sympathy. That in turn gets people thinking as to why this is happening,…

Stephen Curry is an incredible all around man. He is known for his remarkable shooting abilities. He can also be known off the court as a great man donating to charities. His story inspires young and learning students. This is his background, obstacles, recent life and what he has done for the community. This is a bit of Steph's background. He was born in Akron, Ohio to Dell and Sonya Curry. His birth name is Wardell Stephen Curry II. He mostly grew up in Charlotte, Carolina. Dell played in the…

Craig Kielburger has done extraordinary things that have impacted thousands of people. He is an inspiration to many people including me. He founded a world renown charity Free the Children and co-founded Me to We. Free the Children is a charity to help free children from slavery and child labour in countries like India, Thailand and Bangladesh then give them an education after reuniting them with their families. Me to We is another part of Free the Children that is more for the social part of…