Wide area network

individuals. It also offers a healthier lifestyle in terms of being active due to the close proximity to the main streets, stores and services and; therefore, allow the individuals to walk instead of having to drive all the time. According to New Urban Network (2017) “These machines have become our masters” (para. 1). Moreover, the price of busing costs will be reduced because every individual will be able to walk to every neighborhood not limited to, schools, boutiques, shopping malls while…

(Tuñón, 2006). Migration into urban areas has created overcrowding, increased competition for resources and congestion in transportations. The rural areas deserted by the migrants faced new challenges in development such as slow economic growth and shortage of labour force. This would lead to further divergence in the development level between urban and rural places. This would lead to more workers moving into urban areas looking for job opportunities…

Despite what most people think, Soccer is a very simple game. In order to play a game of soccer, you will need eleven people per team and two teams per game. In addition, it is helpful to have a referee. Each player will need to have a team jersey to wear for the game. As well as shin guards, socks and cleats. In addition, each team will need to have a goal net that should be placed at either end of the field, along with a soccer ball. Once all these are acquired you are ready to have a soccer…

inevitably lead to changes in attitude, worldview, and way of life of urban folks and this is something foreseeable (Ahmad, Z., Ahmad, N., & Abdullah, H., 2009). The characterization of urbanization in the minds of every individual might differ in certain areas but ultimately leads to an impression of positive changes in living conditions. With urbanization in mind, individuals articulate a concrete idealism to form a “Quality World”. The quality world is what Glasser (1998) refers to as the…

Alex Marshall states throughout the book “How Cities Work” that in order for any city to be a healthy it is crucial to have the three legged stool. The three legged stool is composed of politics, economics and transportation. In transportation it gives us the most visual and dynamic in the way a place is shaped. That’s why places such as Silicon Valley, Jackson Heights and John Jay community all differ from each other. Adding on to this, the way our transportation systems are built and the…

South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa is anticipated to double. According to UN Habitat, one third of urban population live in slum areas in developing countries. Regional A report by State of the World Cities states that 30% of urban population in Asian countries live in slums. According to UN Habitat, 2013, more than half of human population (61.7%) resides in slum areas in Africa and in Latin America and Caribbean region, 24% of urban poor lives in slum…

Changes in the Park Slope Neighborhood Research Question: What are some long-term effects the changes in the commercially centralized area of Park Slope, specifically 5th and 7th ave, have on its residents? How do these effects change the overall view one has on their own neighborhood compared to what outsiders believe? Research Proposal: Long-term effects in Park Slope differ when looking from the view of one resident to the next. Growing up and adapting to the changes is different when it…

Reader” by Becky W. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, while reading chapter 9, Postwar America, there were many things that got my attention while reading it. This chapter talks about how there was many Americans that move from the city to the suburban areas during that Great Depression and the World War II because of the economy status during this time. These wars made the housing shortage in a very crisis levels. During this time because of the need that all these Americans were facing, many of…

This essay serves to define the term ‘difference’ and looks at examples of this within City Road, Cardiff. Difference is defined by looking at the contrasts between certain groups of people. These ‘differences’ can refer to physical attributes, or perhaps behavioural or personal preferences and attitudes. Social scientists tend to use difference when looking at gender, class, age, sexuality and race or ethnicity. (Allen and Blakeley, 2015, p. 25) So many people use City Road for different…

such as United States of America has carbon emissions of twenty tons per average American person, which is way higher than a person living in Ethiopia. For instance, to support my lifestyle, it takes twenty-four global acres of the Earth’s productive area and twenty-four tons of carbon emissions. On the other hand, to support lifestyle of an average Ethiopian person it takes less than one ton of carbon emissions. The lifestyle of the Ethiopian citizens is mostly based on agriculture and the…