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Downtown Worcester is comprised of office buildings, clothing stores, restaurants, small cafes, and governmental offices such as City hall and Worcester Federal building. The common oval serves as the center location for big events that takes place throughout the year. Few weeks ago, Worcester held their first Pow Wow event at the common oval, where artist from all over the world came to display their artwork. During our walk, we saw few of the murals on the street that was painted during the…

There are many aspects of geography, humans behavior and decisions are affected by physical features of Earth. Some of the things that geography affects are: Urbanization, cultural exchange, and trade. Geography has affected Urbanization in many different ways one of them is by the climate, because it affects where and how a city/country/town will develope. Also, there are geographic factors like demographics meaning how a city is growing. For example, if a city is growing because of…

These changes make a new living pattern, in which people live in the suburban area and drive to work, becomes possible. As a result, more and more people move out of cities and live in suburban area. These suburban communities are called suburban sprawl. As most people live in the suburbia, merchants relocate themselves with their customers. Office and jobs stayed in the cities in the beginning. Gradually, offices moved out too because it is cheap for them to set up office at suburbia where…

What meanings do permanent residents and second homeowners construct and ascribe to Rangeley? Both groups of actors rely on similar narratives of the rural idyll to construct Rangeley’s place distinction—they imagine it to be safe, isolated, and removed from the problems associated with the rest of the world. This narrative itself is not unique to rural places; in fact, this narrative has been one of the most enduring narratives of rurality (Williams 1974; Woods 2011). However, what is unique is…

As society develops and changes with modernity so to does the flow of the city, residential and rural areas. Due to the rise in suburbia and the bourgeois commuter there has been altered movements within the city changing the original purpose of the city and promoting collective groups of communities that exist on the edge of a larger city. Suburbanization grew in the times of the Depression and WWII as well as the developments of technology. Automobiles became available which allowed people to…

Introduction Today, urban centers around the world are driving forces for the vast majority of the global economy. With the opportunities these large urban areas offer, more and more people are moving into densely populated areas. In 2014, the United Nation’s reported that around 54% of the global population live in an urban area. In America, the urban population is over 80% of the total population, and is growing at the rate of 1% per year, which equates to over 3 million new urban Americans…

Jacob is thinking that if neighborhoods and planning is a successful process the city life is not as bad a people think. She thinks in a way that if a system works, don’t ruin it. She is big into thinking that if residents take responsibility of the pros and cons in the city then things can go smoothly with improving and planning new things. I think the perspective was old when Jacobs was writing this because housing projects were still prominent back then and now they are not as big. The…

At first, I wasn’t sure what to write about how to incorporate Drucker’s teachings in the reading to a post. Part of the reason is most of the examples Drucker gave were that of the military, which is where most of my professional experience is. Because of that it was difficult for me to find ways to expand upon or update; even though the military does use new technology, we still learn things written in Von Steuben’s blue book from Valley Forge that taught the young colonial infantry how to…

The Government is divided into many layers, but is still a one big connected piece, just like a spider web. Without one of them, the Government would fall apart. Each layer plays a different role and supports a different system as far as the society is concerned. As each layer is peeled off, the governing system gets smaller and smaller. These layers escalate starting from the smallest governing body, Crestwood School District, up to city Government, County Government, State Government, and…

their average earnings. The article starts out by giving the reader insight into Stacey Calvin’s daily life as she resides in Atlanta. She often spends as much time commuting to her job as she works. Geography plays a major role in metropolitan areas because lower income households have difficulty overcoming the lay of the city, namely the extensive traffic and…