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EFFECTS OF URBAN CRIME ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Technical Paper by: Ms. Adit Padhi (aditipadhi@gmail.com) “Greater concern about terrorism places new opportunities before the design community. If protection is considered from the outset, design can make buildings and people safer.”1 Introduction Violent crime was the issue of the nineties, while terrorism has become the talk at the onset of 21st century. Understanding crime prevention design is therefore an invaluable tool in organization and

Introduction Quantitative urban studies are becoming increasingly important for planners knowing that in the year 2015 more than half the global population will be residing in cities [1]. Suitable urban planning ought to be a top priority for future development but unfortunately sound planning has not taken place especially in many African cities as heavy rural-urban migration continues to cause cities to expand at uncontrollable rates [2]. As a consequence, the urban population in Africa is increasing

place in the past decades has lead to the loss of work opportunities for low-income and minority workers due to work being moved away from where they live. Economic restructuring such as deindustrialization has moved many jobs away from the city and urban setting and into the suburbs where low-income and minority workers may not have an opportunity to live. In addition to the movement of jobs, the importance of transportation, both private and public,

Way to Understand Gentrification Introduction As urban development progressively changes people’s living behaviors, gentrification has created new urban movements for everyone to follow. It refers to the special migration in population who is seeking either a better living space and/or a better employment environment through an intra-city moving. As many studies have discovered, the future global population growth will only take place in the urban area. It is projected to be a 70% of the 9 billion

There have been several attempts in area of sociology for understanding what is modernity in reality means and what has it brought with itself. A variety of phrases and words are in use to describe society, symptomatic mentality, social life and driving force, otherwise few other defining facets of the modernity. It is generally characterized through comparing the modern societies with the pre-modern otherwise postmodern societies and understanding all of these societies (DOCIU and DUNARINTU, 2012

for people in Mexico are lack of arable land, land deterioration and diminution of the land area per farmer. Land in Mexico City is being urbanized in a fast speed and at the moment Mexico City surrounds 20 per cent of the inhabitants in Mexico. The urban inhabitants in the city is still growing due to immigration and natural growth. During 1950 to1970 the large fragment of the city’s inhabitant’s development was produced by rural migration. The reason for this migration was industrial development and

Housing codes in this country shape the way we live. They tell us everything from what is considered to be a bedroom, to how many people can live in one dwelling. Max Page and Ellen Pader looked at two different examples of the way the US’s housing policies have had a major impact on our society. Page examined the tearing down of the slums in New York City. The government claimed that the buildings were old and unsafe, and thus needed to be demolished. Pader looked at eviction of ethnic groups, particularly

Dilworth Park and the Delight it Brings to the Creative Urban Landscape City Planning is an enterprise as old and as engrained in a constantly advancing society as the formation of cities themselves. Planning an urban landscape for a dynamic and complex population can be tricky, especially considering that societal norms and goals are always changing. In this light, it becomes most important to plan for-and catalyze-as much positive change on a city wide scale as is possible. The Creative City model

the development of urban poor Introduction: Society is a ground of development and a sphere of constant change. From a Marxian perspective, changes in the forces and means of production leads to change in the structure of the society. As Marx underlined that forces of production will lead to class differences and polarization resultant of class conflict between the dominant and the subordinate class.From slavery to capitalism society has witnessed class differences. An urban community is also a

Small urban areas can do a number of things to increase and diversify export efforts. Increasing the exports will enhance the ability of the small urban area to pay for its imports. First the small urban areas should look at other opportunities so they can mitigate the export dependency they have on target areas such as large urban areas that have economies of scale. They could target investment and industrial policy to develop potential new areas of comparative advantage. Thing such as technology