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Chicago Architectural and Planning Impact of Edward Bennett and Daniel Burnham

new generation of designers have stepped away from admiring only the beauty and grandeur of the lakeside city and have begun to re...

21st Century Urban American Housing

and 1970s that saw record numbers of city dwellers move to the suburbs and has brought a new influx of citizens back into the city...

Detroit Michigan's History

In ten pages this report considers the history of one of America's largest and oldest cities dating back to the first years of the...

Photographer and Social Reformer Jacob Riis

16). In 1888, Riis left the Tribune to work for the Evening Sun, at which time he also began work on his first book concerning t...

Historical Connections Between Liverpool and Shanghai

This paper discusses the common historical aspects of these two very different and distant cities. The author examines how Ninete...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Short Fiction's Depiction of Families

judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...

An Early Twentieth Century Comparative Analysis of New York City and Los Angeles

the similarities will be striking, but the differences are also worth noting. II. The Political Development of New York Between...

Nineteenth Century Growth of Northern Ireland's City of Belfast Industrial, Political, Religious and Social Factors

home of the most violent conflicts between the two factions. Industry The First Industrial Revolution in Northern Irela...

Carl L. Becker's "The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers"

Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...

Assessing the Budget of the City of Orlando

altering them to operate as flex-fuel vehicles. As a policy guide, the budget "includes organization-wide financial and programma...

How Immigration Affects the Urban Population

Schwarzenegger take this high position of governor of a state. Indeed, immigration will likely change the urban landscape when it ...

Prostitution in Edmonton

hookers to the doorsteps of the local drug pusher, who would get a visit from a SWAT team an hour or so later" (Demers, 1993, p. 1...

A Visit to Philadelphia

almost unimaginable and the exhaust fumes practically overwhelming the uninitiated. There is a constant roar of cars and trucks, ...

The Future of Jersey City

Heights, a West Side redevelopment plan in the works, the planned rehabilitation of Journal Square, and increasing development in ...

Urban Economics: Kitchener Ontario

envisions a plan in which the urban emphasis could be doubled (Mercer, 2007). This revitalization is encompassed by both the city...

Las Cruces Crosses

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

The Effect of Refunding or Reorganizing Existing Debt Obligations

of implications. There will often be a shifting of debt from one finance source to another, this may or may not involve a change o...

Architectural Similarities and Differences in Kuala Lampur and Dubai

that people could better escape the somewhat inhospitable environment as they moved from building to building. Their time outside...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

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

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...

Muslim History: Damascus and Cairo

and the Christian Jerusalem comprised the major powers within Syria at the time.3 In relationship to Cairo, several years ...

Increasing Business for Dubai Internet City

the following two years. 1. Introduction Dubai Internet City is a well established high tech business park, the 300 million squ...

Historical Landscape Changes in Shelburne, Vermont

both grand and far-reaching; that each church, bridge, park and home erected within the community served to change the very terrai...

Economic Inequality

were intended. There is a law that requires states to distribute federal funding towards its earmarked purposes. If the law is vio...

New Orleans: Race, Ethnicity, and a "Sense of Place" After Katrina

nationalist mentality throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, cultural identity has gradually become more intimately associated wi...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Four Structures in Oklahoma City

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