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If you like the look of Victorian-era houses, you’ll love the architecture Redfern offers. This inner-city suburb is one of Sydney’s oldest and is less than three kilometres from the central business district of Sydney, making it close to the airport, public transportation, and the best beaches in New South Wales. Its residents consider it a perfectly positioned suburb. Lifestyle This popular Sydney suburb neighbours the popular area of Surry Hills and it is home to a diverse Australian…

In the passages in the article What if busy cities had no cars on the streets? By newsela there are two different points of view on the topic whether there should be cars in the city. The author of the first passage believes that there should not be cars allowed in cities from a couple reasons. He believes that there should be no cars on the street because it is good for local businesses, has health benefits, it's less noisy, and no worry of being hit by cars. On the other hand, the author of…

Advanced Cities is about how cities have grew and became more advanced over time. As ancient Egypt grew so did trade, Queen Hatshepsut made Egypt richer through trade by trading with nearby countries. The Egyptians traded a lot to a land called Punt. Ancient Egyptians began to build houses using bricks made out of mud mixed with chopped straws. Usually richer and wealthier Egyptians slept on mats and had bigger houses with courtyards for shade, meanwhile poorer Egyptians often slept and ate on…

Ryan loved eating hot and spicy things especially hot sauce and ketchup which he couldn’t go a day without but still he hadn’t found the perfect hot ketchup that would be so hot and spicy that it brought tears to his eyes .But this was about to change , as he was waiting for the stop light to turn green, his gaze shifted to this big billboard . He was immediately intrigued by what he saw – is this the hot ketchup he was waiting for. Heinz is a famous for its ketchup , and in recent years it…

Coming from a populated city and area I was intrigued at the opportunity to learn about something that would be completely new to me. I grew up barely outside of Rochester Minnesota, which is an hour and a half south of the cities. Rochester, as I see it, is a city within a rural area. My definition and your definition of rural are two completely different things. Thus, when you first asked us to describe three words that we thought of when we heard the term rural I put down: Farm, Farmer, and…

Puerto Ricans found themselves living in uninhabitable buildings (Suarez 277). “ By 1955 seven hundred thousand Puerto Ricans had moved to the continental United States, and most of them went to New York” (Suarez 275). During this time the New York City was being rebuilt in other words gentrification was occurring. According to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary gentrification is defined as the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into…

Since the end of World War II, much of the rise and fall of American cities has been documented. As Keynesian economic policies began to fail, cities such as, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Seattle began implementing new strategies to recover their urban areas. Although many differences exist between these cities, one prevailing ideology is alike to all, neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is simply defined as an ideological rejection of egalitarian liberalism in general and the Keynesian…

Table 1 below represents a comparison between the current Municipal Engineering Servicing Standards and other standards. The widths of residential streets listed in the Municipal Engineering Servicing Standards falls within a close range of other municipal standards in Alberta. Transportation Association Canada (TAC) maintains and develops national guidelines for roads and transportation matters. The width of residential streets listed in TAC’s guidelines is slightly higher than the ESS.…

to gut the middle of most American cities. As the 1970’s wore on a plethora of reasons such as crime, job losses, and racism made them all the more attractive. Cities appeared to be dying. Then a strange thing happened, in the mid-1990’s crime began to drop rapidly and people began moving back to cities. Today cities like New York that were on the brink of collapse are thriving. Even stranger, because of the recession post 2000 poverty had moved out from the city and into suburbs. There are…

With rising land prices there are less green spaces in the city even with restrictive laws in place. Tehran was once filled with gardens, but urbanization destroyed them. Courtyards used to employ most of the green space in the city. However, when the new apartments were being constructed they were not designed to have any green spaces. Urban sprawl breaks up the relationship between humans and the environment. Sprawl causes an increase in city commuting time. In 1980 Tehran’s government was…