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Three Questions about Urban Policy

This 5 page paper answers three questions about urban policy: 1) how to control the power of large corporations; 2) the impact of ...

American Urban Politics and the Federalist System

as partnerships related to: "fundamental human dignity; issues that do not recognize borders; and issues where major financial res...

Urban France and the Role of Women in Revolts for Social Change

French military setbacks in 1646 and after it became apparent that the Spanish war would go on despite negotiations to bring peace...

Misconduct in Law Enforcement

techniques used by some of those in law enforcement can still exact a confession from a completely innocent person, but it is now ...

West Oak Lane Neighborhood and Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans

economic hard times and the ever-expanding problems associated with poverty and the inner- city. As its name would suggest, it is ...

Las Vegas Urbanizaton and Development

poor but improved 75 percent the next. Most of the biggest Vegas casinos, including the Hilton and, yes, New York, New York, laid ...

Motown and Berry Gordy

Vegara, and "Urban Crisis" by Thomas Sugrue. Berry Gordy and Motown Berry Gordy is considered to be the father of Motown. "In ...

Which Play Best Exemplifies the Contemporary Woman, The Glass Menagerie or Lysistrata?

illustrate what the modern urban woman is, and then turn to discussing the two stories, arguing that today, the modern urban woman...

Michel de Certeau's Incarceration Concept

walks they can choose which blocks to go down. On the train, the path is the same everyday. If someone is mugged on the street, th...

The Balance Between Society and the Individual in Urban Society

This 5 page paper argues that the urban environment is in reality a delicate balance between society and the individual. The write...

Present And Future Issues in Urban Development

This 7 page paper discusses past trends in urban development and how they have influenced contemporary cities. There is 1 source l...

Georgia and the Impact of Urban Sprawl

impact on the rivers and lakes in the region. It has affected its fluvial systems and while Georgia is trying to get a handle on t...

First 4 Chapters of There Are No Children Here by Kotlowitz

in Chicago comes form Pharoahs keen observations of the citys skyline and the awesome view, as well as one distinct butterfly. Ind...

People, Design, and Architecture

need to agree on what approaches have not worked. We also need to accept the fact that development does and will occur, so we can ...

Urban Schools and Lack of Quality Educators

have emergency teaching certificates (NASBE, 2002). Consider these data: * Urban schools are twice as likely to hire unlicensed or...

The Baby Train and The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Brunvand

so show that certain themes are consistent in the stories and how they are a part of urban and societal life. The stories contain ...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

Istanbul and Megacities

on the European shore. It is on both the land and sea routes of Asia and Europe. Istanbul has the advantage of being on the Blac...

7889 Pacific Avenue Restaurant Determination

As such, the questionnaire sought to determine the eating habits of the individuals. In asking what meal is eaten most often out o...

Urban Life and Women

than the experience a modern urban man of her age may come upon. A modern urban man may experience a time in his life where he fee...

Rural China and Communism

might compare the situation to that of the United States in the twentieth century when farmers went bust, depended on government a...

The Similarities and Differences in Urban Planning in Italy and The Netherlands

to consider this in more detail then we can look at the more hierarchical Netherlands system and policies of planning permission a...

Crazy/Beautiful Film and its Themes of Social Stratification and Interracial Dating

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

Urban Development and Concepts in Sociology

wealth and other key resources goes to theories of class. Social stratification has always been a problem, but it seems to be very...

Italian and British Water Industry and the Effects of Onetime Utility Monopolies and State Withdrawal

the implications for the UK and then compare them to other countries, such as Italy. The state has been forced to withdraw from ...

Bourgeois Utopias The Rise and Fall of Suburbia by Robert Fishman

Euro-American culture whose formation was not necessitated by the Industrial Revolution or changing transportation technology, but...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

Western US Cities

thing in multiples, rather than in the terms of one person, or family moving from a farm to city, and getting a new street address...

Striking a Balance Between Environmentalism, Urban Growth, and Economic Needs

In a research paper consisting of five pages the precarious balancing act between the necessity of economic development, the resul...

Urban Planning, Modern and Postmodern Design

sprawl around factories and some sort of civic center usually comprising a town hall, church, municipal buildings; small terraced ...