Personal area network

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…

between the culture of different places, there are three differences and a similarity between the culture of a small town and the culture of a big city. The first difference between the culture of a small town and the culture of a big city is in the area of entertainment. In a small town, there are a few facilities for entertainment such as small cinemas. People who live in a small town usually watch movies and dramas in their leisure time. Unlike the entertainment in a small town, there…

interact with neighbors, and meet up with friends on a daily basis starting from childhood and continues through adulthood. The setting you see every day will ultimately determine how a large majority of people will turn out in the future no matter if the area is a good or bad one. In a study on Neighborhood Environment “Studies also suggest that factors such as neighborhood unemployment , neighborhoods with high residential…

Fredericksburg to Washington, D.C., which has been used for many year. One thing that has changed is that Fredericksburg started transit busing not too long ago that goes all around the town. The second movement is the impact of immigration in my area. The impact this is making is the development of more Hispanic stores, such as restaurants, grocery stories, and hair salons. VII. Human-Environmental Interaction Relevance Lastly, I noticed the interaction of human-environment and…

locally grown and sourced to being imported from other states and countries, we are seeing more and more of the work force moving to more rural areas. This is in part to the massive amounts of farm land no longer being used for agriculture and being turned into subdivisions with larger tracts of land available for purchase than are found in the more urban areas. While rural and urban living usually come down to preference, there are some specific differences that one…

City Between Worlds : My Hong Kong takes the reader to the metropolitan city of Hong Kong, exploring its colonial past and uncertain future. In this uniquely sized tome Lee travels through the bustling city, highlighting events that occurred and recalling buildings and landmarks that have since been demolished or relocated. In eight detailed and informative chapters, Lee discusses the structure of the city as it is today compared to its past, Hong Kong’s colonial past, and the values and…

In March 1968 Henri Lefebvre published The Right to the City. It caused an awareness in the history of ideas on the perception of the city as a stake in society. It announces the arrival of a new reality, the urban, the end of the industrial city and its fragmentation in the outskirts and suburbs. This article shows the extensions and modernity of Lefebvre's theses: his notions have been widely taken up, both nationally and internationally, by urban political practitioners and urban sociologists…

homelessness (Atkinson, 2004). Most gentrified areas are often in the urban core, where huge abandoned landmass which were once working industries or manufacturing companies that declined after World War II, become the main focal point of investment. Low-wage manufacturing jobs brought the initial residents in those areas and the consequent drop of such jobs post-industrialization left them in the marginal economic straits. As the property prices increase in these areas attracting more…

problems in every day life. Mostly the people with poor financial background migrate in order to support their families. In past two decades, large number of people have migrated from rural to urban and urban to urban (from small town to metro cities) areas for various reasons. In India, Tamil Nadu has the highest urbanization growth state which proves the fact that the people have bees migrating from backward districts to urban districts of Tamil Nadu. The present study has used the 2001 Census…

URBANIZATION IN PAKISTAN” URBANIZATION: Urbanization means the movement of people from less developed areas to the more developed areas that consequently increases the urban population. Urbanization began during the industrial revolution, when worker move towards manufacturing hubs in cities to obtain jobs in industries as agriculture jobs became less come that why People from less developed areas of Pakistan leave their hometowns in search of better livings. This is not the sole reason for the…