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    American Apartheid Systematic racism exists in different realms, affecting one or more races and impacting their lives with a focus on minorities , which overall mostly correlates with class. While I am not saying blacks are the only groups that can be a target of racism, I will say it's harder for a colored, or black person to hide their race in order to free themselves from the social and economic stigmas that it holds. One can imagine a wealthy business person and a poor homeless man and…

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    In urban areas where there is a significant population of low-income families, there is an increase of problems with obesity. Rail and beltway communities afford its citizens the opportunity to become more active by promoting the use of shared-use pathways…

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    Urban Forests In Canada

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    of an urban area; it can be beneficial to the public by them being able to gain facilities like hospitals or restaurants, or it can be harmful and prevent supplies like technology from being given to schools. The economy regulates how the money in an area is spent and it shares information about the city’s health. In the study by Sinclair et al. (2014), the residents in Canada share how the urban forests can increase the real estate value of the neighborhoods and houses among the urban forest…

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    titled, “How Hell Moved from the City to the Suburbs”, she gently and respectively rejects the perception of suburbia that most of American’s hold in their minds today. Inside this book, “The New Suburban History”, Nicolaides explains why the great urban scholars and writers of the 1950’s and 1960’s painted the wrong picture of the “hell” suburbia was and is seen today. Her opinion may be difficult to undercover in the beginning of her piece due to her mostly positive regard to Louis Wirth,…

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    Rem Kolhaas Bigness

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    Big buildings ignore the context around them; they are independent of the surrounding fabric they are meant to tie into, becoming objects that merely hover in space. The sudden appearance of these big buildings diminishes the aspects of quality and experience causing the concept of architecture to be rethought. Their distant relationship with the ground, due to technological advances such as the elevator, creates an inwardly focused space. The building only continues to grow taller, allowing…

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    The final case study is about urban development in Davis, California. Urban development does not take place in a vacuum, and it is important to be sure that established assumptions about the development process are manifestly accurate. Property developers usually have their way, large corporations do homogenise the American landscape with indistinguishable retail outlets, and entrepreneurs, landowners, mainstream media, and local government also support this type of growth. In other words, what…

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    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 desired land usage around urban centres. In addition, a case study of Sydney was analysed to…

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    Social Life In Canada

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    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 can be found. However; urban living has a fast and formal social life. A complex social life is formed where people…

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    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…

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    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…

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