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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 upscale homebuyers.…

Australia’s population growth would have significant effects on the agricultural landscapes and its sustainability. Population growth would inevitably lead to urban sprawl towards the outer urban fringes where agricultural lands generally located. Thus, urban sprawl would create conflicts between the most beneficial type of land developments for the land whether it be residential or agriculture. So, the sustainability of the agricultural landscape would ultimately be based on the result of…

The dramatic differences between the willingness to move around between Russians, Europeans and American, Canadians can be traced back to the countries diverse networks. These countries can be separated by being urban and rural. While one side has a more of a rural type of society, the other has an urban based society. A rural society being a simpler way of living, consisting of a natural environment and an informal social life. Homogeneity in language, professions, and customs of social life…

Concept Response Project Blinkenlights by Chao Computing Club (CCC, 2001), which aims to encourage communication between the city and the citizens takes place in Berlin. It has allowed passersby to input data and show any animations and images they want to, on the building. The way that Project Blinkenlights decorates the city of Berlin shows how much the CCC love the city. This idea inspired me to create an interactive artwork which make the connection between Vancouver and the residents. I…

Lauren Gebhardt Professor Paga Urbanism in the Ancient World 22 February, 2016 Religion in the Ancient Egyptian City of Thebes Religion and ritual practices played a big role in the process of urbanization in ancient times. A major source of evidence of urbanization in Ancient Egypt is the city known as Thebes. To Ancient Egyptians, the city was known as Waset or Niwt, meaning “The City,” but the Greeks changed the name to Thebes because it was “the model for every city” (Snape 150). In Thebes…

reinforce the positive characteristics of important places, enhance access, strengthen connections, and create a setting for new investment. While many areas of downtown are now experiencing significant reinvestment and new vibrancy, barriers and holes in the fabric separate these pockets into isolated areas of activity surrounded by large areas of surface parking and vacant lots. Opportunities: The Queen City Hub established an action plan for downtown by identifying for new growth and…

people live in poverty”. Unbelievably, the majority of the poor people decide to live in cities rather than rural or suburban areas where the land is cheap. Edward, unlike the traditional economists, attributes this urbanization of poverty comes mainly to better accessibility to public transportation in central cities. He argues…

Q: How Would Life Be Different In a Densely Populated Area As Compared To A Sparsely populated Area? A: There are a few main factors that would differentiate living in a sparsely populated are as oppose to a densely populated one. A densely populated area, would likely be more industrialized than, for example, a rural, sparsely populated area. In a sparsely populated area, shops, housing, community centres, and schools and other places of work would be spread apart more, and you might have to…

Introduction Urban sprawl is the expansion of a city or its suburbs, especially the commercialization in rural areas including farmland or undeveloped lands, such as forests and open spaces. Urban sprawl can be caused by numerous factors including rapid population growth, rise of living standard, decrease of land rate, lack of urban planning, etc. Urban sprawl creates numerous problems that would decrease in environmental quality through wildlife habitat destruction, deforestation, wetlands, and…

As one of of the largest suburbs located south of the river, Burnsville is home to over 60,000 residents. The city’s thriving bedroom community enjoys both the spacious setting and numerous amenities available. Residents relish the location, being just twenty minutes south of downtown Minneapolis. The dynamic community is built around both its close-knit, friendly atmosphere and its wide selection of activities. Burnsville hosts many different events throughout the year that are designed to…