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Tuition Reimbursement Benefits Assessment

of tuition reimbursed but in terms of paid time off for studies and the potential for abusing the system by using city clerical st...

Sociologist Nancy Kleniewski's City Definition

that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...

Philadelphia and Chicago Historic Restoration and Preservation

possess buildings and locations that should be preserved to further embrace the history of the United States. In relationship to...

Role of Counselors in Inner City School Guidance Counseling

a perennial shortfall in state aid resulted in the reductions in guidance counselors at the same time that an increase in services...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Medieval Cities

and Hollander 161). Dante comments to Virgil that the mosques inside the city can clearly be seen. The translators also comment th...

Host Nation Hotel Industries and the Effects of International Events Such as the Olympics

Demand 9 3.1.1 Price 9 3.1.2 The Price of Substitutes 11 3.1.3 Price of Complimentary Goods and Services 12 3.1.4 Advertising 13 3...

Overview of Engineering Ethics

been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...

WTC Towers' Rebuilding Proposal

of north and south sections and the verticle structures that are central to the overall construction. Procopius wrote: "And In th...

NYC Education Reform

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

An Overview of Urbanism in America

the proliferation of entertainment and leisure. Films, plays, restaurants and night clubs are a part of the landscape. After th...

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...

Continually Changing Beings in Cities

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

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...

NYC's PE Programs

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

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...

Urban Policy Decision Shifts

districts were also homes to railway stations that brought people from out of state. However, when the automobile began making lon...

The Automobile as a Cause of Urban Sprawl

do this more as homes and automobiles became less expensive (Cox, 2002). Early developments such as "Levittown," one of the first...

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...

Coronado California a Reflection Essay

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the five theories of geography as it relates to the city of Coronado, California. This pape...

September Eleventh Attacks Influence on New York

This 12 page paper gives an overview of the law enforcement in New York City as well as their economy. This paper includes the sta...

Searching for Urban Theology

This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...

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 ...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

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

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 ...

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...