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Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

Case Study of Asbury Park, New Jersey City Council

as an imperative. Examples of how this city council fails to communicate will be illustrated in the literature review. Problem S...

The Legacy Of Colonial America with Regard to Urban Development

three largest and probably most important harbors were Boston, New York and Philadelphia (Hashagen, 1998). What many may not know ...

The Park and the People A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar

4) Redefining Central Park; 5) The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City; and, 6) The Past Fifty Years, in additio...

New Jersey State Parking Fines Collection

In five pages New Jersey's problems with parking fines' collection are considered along with other cities' solutions to similar di...

NYC and Public Transportation

In twelve pages this paper examines problems and various issues that have existed throughout New York City's public transportation...

Transit System of NYC

In twenty five pages this paper examines the bus service in a consideration of New York City's Transit System with Brooklyn's serv...

River City, California Corrections Problems

beyond us sometimes. But that ancient bit of memory seems very "right on," as far as corrections goes in California; it is "troub...

Christopher Commission, LAPD Police Chief Daryl Gates, and the Rodney King Beating

In ten pages this paper discusses the personal biases that tainted this incident and how though the Commission's report could not ...

Should US Education be Privatized?

In fourteen pages education privatization is examined in an overview of various issues with the EAI Company and Baltimore city's f...

Identity in 'The New York Trilogy' by Paul Auster

to Quinn because they allow him to temporarily lose his identity. By walking, he could leave "himself behind," and simply give him...

NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

NYC's Metropolitan Area and Shipment Transporting

In five pages this paper discusses New York City's traffic problems with a solution offered by replacing trucks with ships and tra...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

New York Retailer Barneys

eyed a nondescript storefront at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, in the lowbrow Manhattan neighborhood known as Chel...

Politics of Authoritarianism and Status of St. Petersburg, Paris, Istanbul, and Mexico City

intensified hostilities among those who were previously amicable. Some contend that despite all its past and present global impli...

NYC Crime and the Amadou Diallo Case

shooting has disturbed those who believed Diallo had been killed due to the color of his skin and emphasized the uncertainty peopl...

Atlanta and Detroit Crime from 1986 Until 1996

In eight pages a literature review of these two regions is presented in order to compare these cities' crime problems and concludi...

The Transformation of Major Central Cities

7 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of major cities. This paper looks at the proce...

Inner City African American Boys in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

Soon after meeting Kotlowitz, Lafayette told him that "if" he grows up, he wants to be a bus driver. Kotlowitz notes that the adol...

Proposal for an Emergency Room Expansion

and many others have pondered the difficulties of running ERs around the country. In order to eliminate problems, several ideas ...

Four Structures in Oklahoma City

are no readily discernible passive features that accommodate solar heat collection; however, the portico does offer shelter from r...

Las Cruces Crosses

Court found a Kentucky law that "required public schools to display the Ten Commandments" unconstitutional (Why the Ten Commandmen...

NYC's PE Programs

Fay and Doolittle (2002) recount how in the early 1990s concern over standards-based reform in academic subjects actually generate...

Salt Lake City's Land Use and Organization

the Mormon Church was ever present and ever active" (McCormick, 2002, PG). After a tumultuous several years during which the ci...

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

Continually Changing Beings in Cities

to articulate it and be able to do it" Continually using the idea of walking...

Omaha Nebraska: The Ideal City?

easy access to the mountains and the seashore alike. It would have plenty of flat ground for easy walking but just enough rolling...

Louisville, Kentucky and the Expansion of the United Parcel Service

gained considerably from having UPS locate its hub operations in that city. For one thing, UPS contributes generously to a variety...

Overview of the City of Jerusalem

In fourteen pages Jerusalem is examined in an overview of the holy city's history and the various religious conflicts among Muslim...