Radioactive decay

downwind from test sites causes birth defects, miscarriages, thyroid issues, and leukemia due to radioactivity. Public pressure began to grow to stop nuclear testing when childhood leukemia and other cancers increased and when scientists found radioactive strontium in baby teeth of…

in the communities surrounding these sites, for which harmful effects continue to linger because of the radioactive toxins that had contaminated their lakes. Uranium is a very heavy metal which was often used in the creation of nuclear-powered atomic bombs during the cold war and was then progressively used to generate electricity. Exposure to uranium can result in both chemical and radioactive toxicity. In the mid-1950s Elliot Lake had become a mining site which attracted many people there to…

- Elena Vladimirovna Filatova enjoys riding her motorcycle (big ninja) to North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl "dead zone because ether roads are untouched my civilization cars and trucks. Also, no one in insight. -Radiation is measured by a device called a Geiger counter. - Cities, in Russia and America, it will read 10-12 microroentgen per hour, supposedly. - A dose of 500 roentgen within 5 hours is fatal to humans. -However, it takes about 2 1/2 times the dose for humans to kill a…

I learned more about the city that I work in and love. The Hollow neighborhood is a densely populated, impoverished, ethnic community in the center of Bridgeport, Connecticut. There is a feeling of urban decay in the neighborhood, along with violence and gang activity. There is no playgrounds or open space in the Hollow to enjoy outdoor actives. The Hollow is a food desert and many in the community are subject to food insecurity. There are problems with…

Urban refers to the built up space of a central city and its suburbs. It has a lack of agricultural area and is distinctly non-rural. Urban geography has four subfields that will be discussed in this summary. The first is the history of urbanization. Next, is intraurban geography, followed by interurban geography. The final subfield is urban planning and policy. Why do people live in cities and when did they start? Before urbanization, people where clustered in agricultural villages and were…

Steven Ross 9/14/16 Dr. Dalton Weekly Response Paper 9/15/16 1.There are many social issues that have been influenced by the design of subdivisions. But, it really affects the 80 million Americans who are either too young, too old, or too poor to drive. However, the author says, that there is difficulty to identify a segment of the population that does not suffer in some way from the lifestyle imposed by contemporary suburban development. The list includes, children losing their autonomy,…

Does Urbanisation affect Global Pollution? By 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…

Le Corbusier: Unité d'habitation, Marseilles As the number of people living in cities increased, the number of apartments had to increase as well. During the 1920s, the avant-garde ideal type of housing was the high-rise building. In France after World War II, the need for housing was especially urgent, and in the postwar period the housing complex type was accepted by the government and public, and the introduction of large-scale multi-family buildings started with Le Corbusier's Unité…

Transformation of Built Environment in Urban Villages. Case Study - Urban Villages, Delhi Dr. Ruchita Gupta Assistant Professor, SPA Delhi Abstract Under the influence of rapid urbanization and economic development, many Indian cities have doubled or tippled in terms of population and land use. As a result, many villages, abaadi area and settlement are situated in periphery of City and Town are engulfed, and named as Urban Villages and Urban Villages Ext. Similarly, Lal Dora area within the…

The Impact of Gentrification in Major Urban Cities In Fortress Los Angeles Mike Davis discusses how corporations redevelopment of major urban cities has led to gentrification. Davis refers to the term gentrification as, "Extraordinary precautions … taken to ensure the physical separation of the different classes" (509). Gentrification zones through the city have widened the gap between the the socioeconomic classes that exist in society, resulting in a displacement of a large number of…