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Soft City by Jonathan Raban

centers and the changes that occurred in the national identity. Raban wrote: "For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is ...

Urban Studies and Transportation Planning

achieved. Though transportation projects may be viable, may be logical in terms of meeting goals, and may be cost feasible, there...

Philadelphia and Death and Life of Cities by Jane Jacobs

and at equal distances from this center is formulated four residential square, each identical and formulated for the same use (Jac...

2005 Annual Report for Urban Outfitters

for retail store sales or when merchandise is shipped to customers for wholesale and direct-to-consumer sales, net of estimated cu...

London's Urban Development Process

the rebuilding of this in a more uniform style with a great deal of aid from Sir Christopher Wrenn and his pattern for the streets...

U.S. Culture and the Blues

the blues is slower and contains much depth of feeling. Later on, the acoustic urban would become electrified, but early on, there...

The Threat of the So-Called Urban Coon

caricature was always at the heart of white supremacy" (Malburne). Lets consider that statement for a moment: the caricature of ...

Designing Entertainment Venues

gambling establishments has served to completely transform otherwise impoverished communities and even afford them the ability to ...

2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

Passaic County A Proposal for a Literacy Program

in Passaic county. It is further suggested that the approval of a proposal would allow students access to additional scholarship ...

An Overview of Urban Empowerment Zones

funding at all for urban Empowerment Zones (King, 2005). This region has, in fact, become accustomed to cuts in Empowerment Zone ...

Urban Regeneration and the Significance of Voluntary Sector and Local Business

a timely reminder that reliance on the government is a dangerous strategy for regeneration due to the whims and changes in politic...

Best Media Selection

after work. This alone is no sufficient to determine the target market and as such the media that can be used. If we look more c...

Factors Leading to Suburban Expansion

these issues are complicated by the transitional nature of the cities themselves. Changing land use patterns, changing occupation...

Social Infrastructure Issues and School Reform

that result in patterns of withdrawal 4. lack of honest communications (overuse of "happy talk") 5. poor internal communications...

Race and Racism in History

which would ultimately leave many African Americans enslaved economically and socially in a very different way as they were provid...

URBAN OUTFITTERS - PRICING, SALES AND CULTURE ANALYSIS

to customers that Alexandra Biesada (2008) dubs as "metropolitan hipsters." In other words, younger people, typically unmarried, h...

The Biological, Psychological, and Social Obstacles to Understanding Transsexuality

the treatise Feminization of males and masculinization of females (Meyerowitz, 2002). Meyerowitz (2002) claims Steinachs research...

The Widening Gap Between the Rich and Poor in India

This 16 page paper examines some of the issues surrounding the gap between the rich and poor in India, including the growth of the...

Rich and Poor: the Growing Income Disparity in India

Development Bank (ADB) says the number of people in Asia living on less than $1 a day fell by 223 million between 1990 and 2002" (...

Urban Informal Economy of Latin America and Ideology

In ten pages this paper examines the urban informal economic structures of Latin American countries and the influence of ideology ...

How Race Shapes Fashion Design in New York City

a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...

Suburbs and Urban Change

residential suburbs are not sustainable is became of how development has been accomplished via specialization, with all parties in...

Changes in Urban Land Use Since 1859

A 3 page essay that discusses the many changes in urban land use that have occurred over the last 150 years. No bibliography is p...

City Beautiful v. Urban Reform Movements

history of urban development and city planning is the result of a lengthy evolutionary history. The following discussion relates a...

URBAN LEGENDS AND HOW THEY SPREAD

Though urban legends have always been around, thanks to the Internet, theyre easier to spread these days. According to college pro...

The Economy in Mississippi

diversification would be necessary to improve the states economy and soon, there would be some industrial growth in the region ("M...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Macro Economy of the United Arab Emirates

aspects that a government may seek to control or influence, including inflation, unemployment, the balance of trade, foreign inves...