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NYC's DOT

the citys franchise agreements that include seven private bus companies (2002). They oversee private ferry operations on city-owne...

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 ...

Cultural Influences, Archaeology, and City Morphology of Classical Athens

the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...

NYC Skyscrapers' Controversy

population grew and the need for office space expanded. The growth of the city almost demanded that the tiny strip of island grow ...

Improving American Neighborhoods

and carriage, most of the people lived within walking distance - or at worse, simply a few miles away from their downtown centers....

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...

Policy and Social Work Implications of The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns

The most vivid message of "The Corner" is the desperate situation under which the people of "the corner" exists. We find that the...

Corruption and Political Machines of New York City

political; in fact, religion and settlement had a great deal to do with the manner by which political machines eventually overran ...

Early Urban America and the Impact of Railroads

The absolute neglect with which this matter was handled is most unpleasant and an excellent example of the animosity and resentmen...

Long Beach, California's Department of Health and Human Services

who is responsible to whom (Department of Health and Human Services, About, 1998). Each Bureau has an overall manager who reports ...

Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program

teens living in non-institutionalized group situations at the time of the 1990 census (US Census Bureau). Figures from the 2000 C...

Romantic Era Poetry of John Keats

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

City of Dallas, Texas

PG). Another celebrity was Doc Holliday who sent up a dental practice in Dallas, but found out that gambling was much more profit...

Transit Workers of New York City

venues where large numbers of diverse peoples mixed regularly may be attributed to the subway phenomenon (1996). On thing which di...

E-Commerce, Tax Revenues and Physical Stores

Internet sales would result in decreased sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores (1999). That seems to make logical sense if ...

Athens, Duty, Pericles and Socrates

that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...

2002 Winter Olympics' Pairs Skating Controversy

In five pages this paper examines the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002 and discusses the pairs figure skating vote fixing sc...

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...

Literary Evidence of American Society in the Early Twentieth Century

In a paper consisting of ten pages the different perspectives of the texts The City Wilderness by Robert Woods, The Origins of the...

Arthur C. Clarke and Metaphysics

In nine pages this paper examines how metaphysics is represented in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novels such as Rendezvous w...

Literature and Altered Reality States

In a paper consisting of five pages connections are established between Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Paul Auster's City of...

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Anthropological Analysis of the 1992 Movie City of Joy

In five pages gender roles, subculture, cultural change, and ethnocentrism concepts are considered in this anthropological analysi...

Neorealism of Italian Director Roberto Rossellini

In eight pages this paper discusses the post Second World War neorealist cinema that was characterized by Roberto Rossellini in su...

Inner City Life in Cinema

The ways in which life in the inner cities are portrayed are contrasted and compared in an examination of the films La Haine by Ka...

Multicultural Writing and Exile

In seven pages th is paper discusses how exile is thematically developed in such multicultural writings as Goodbyes by Pablo Nerud...

History of the ILGWU

In fifteen pages this paper examines the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in an historical overview of its achievements ...

1871's 'Great Chicago Fire'

In nine pages this paper discusses this massive 1871 fire that threatened to destroy the city of Chicago in a consideration of who...

Public Policy and the Inner Cities of the United Kingdom

for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of the UK are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around the world...

Cultural and Social Changes in Cities

This research report examines LA in particular but does look at general changes.A great deal of information is included in this re...