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    Foreword There are a multitude of environmental issues created by traditional urban design systems. One major issue facing urban and suburban areas is the Urban Heat Island Syndrome. An urban heat island is the effect of built environment and human activity on ambient air temperature. Basically, concrete and asphalt structures with human activity can absorb high levels of heat from the sun. According to the EPA, buildings and pavements can heat up to 90oF hotter than the air; then in the evening…

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    Urban Planning in America Anderson Drive. Digital Image. DBlayney. DBlayney. Web. 5 Dec 2016. There has been many significant events throughout the history of urban planning, these events have shaped the way that urban planning happens now. Urban planning, also known as city planning, is the process of planning for designs and regulations of land usage, with the focus on physical aspects, economical factors including advantages and potential disadvantages, and the impact on urban…

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    commoner. This was the urban plan, or the central idea of the design of the city. Since this was a capital city in the Egyptian empire, the nobles cannot be living at the same level or area as the people they rule over. That would be a disgrace! The city designers too this ideal and made all their designs for the city around that image. When any large metropolitan area is created, the organization of necessary buildings and spaces are always taken into consideration. This urban plan has many…

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    Unhealthy Food Desert

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    and greenhouses need to be made all through out the inner city, good healthy food is an important part of of healthy diet. There are many urban farms but do people don’t really know about them or care.Being easily accessible could be some peoples problem. And is it cheap to buy food from them? Those are all questions that need to be thought about for an urban farm to fulfill the needs of the people. About eighteen minutes away from inner city detroit is a good market where a food share is…

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    In this section, we discuss the relationship between congestion and regional growth by focusing on the estimation results. As shown in figure 3, we predict how growth of population and employment density change in the 86 largest U.S. metropolitan area when the congestion growth changes. Figure 3 presents that population growth of the largest U.S. cities would decline, whereas employment growth would continue to increase when congestion growth increases. These results indicate that population…

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    Cities was written as a critique to the failing 1950s urban planning policies that led to the further decline of many already struggling neighborhoods, it was her most popular book and it ignited a spark of controversy among urban planning professionals in the field . Jacobs’ called this popular piece “the relation of the function to design in large cities.” One thing that Jacob criticized in her book was how the government supported the many urban planners who wanted to inject failing cities…

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    “Without words we should scarcely be able to form categories at all” (324). If we weren’t able to speak then people wouldn’t be labeled or subjected to a category. In Gordon Allport 's “Language of Prejudice”, he states that labels subjects a person to one aspect of their appearance. A person shouldn’t be looked at as being in a group but as an individual, everyone is different. Once a individual is given a label, that’s what overlooks every other feature an individual may have. When we look at…

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    Limitation Of Urbanization

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    has conceal what might be a considerably more essential human-ecological collaboration: While the world 's populace is multiplying, the world 's urban populace is tripling. Inside of the following couple of years, more than a large portion of the world 's populace will be living in urban ranges (Torrey 2004).…

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    nation’s population in the world lives in urban areas. Even now, more and more people are moving into the cities for urban life. According to the Census Bureau data, in 2013, there are 2.3 million more people living in urban areas than in 2012. Now 269.9 million people live in urban cities and their surrounding areas. During 2012 and 2013, just 92 out of the country 's 381 metropolitan areas lost their population. (https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/ua/urban-rural-2013.html). Since 2010, the…

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    With an increasing concentration of projects in urban environments, the landscapes encountered by practitioners are likely to be pre-empted, recycled spaces rather than an idealised tabula rasa. In Historical Ground (2014, 6), Greg Hunt explains that landscapes are not from one particular time but rather…

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