old, my parents and I moved from the sprawling, suburban township of Hudson, Ohio to the village at its center, and I fell in love with small, walkable cities and towns that are built on grids. I believe that such environments promote socialization Continue Reading...
City Corridor I rode the LA MetroRail line from downtown to North Hollywood and back. I rode the line on a Saturday morning. The route goes mostly through Hollywood and that area, serving a number of different neighborhoods along the way. The train Continue Reading...
According to Philip Bess, The ubiquity of suburban sprawl has come to constitute a serious physical, intellectual and cultural problem of its own. Suburban sprawl fosters disinvestment in historic city centers; excessive separation of people by age Continue Reading...
Waldie writes of his family home in Long Beach, "Rooms are small in houses that have less than eleven hundred square feet of living area. The room I slept in was ten feet by ten feet" (Waldie 29). Davis goes one step farther when he discusses the di Continue Reading...
New Campaign for the New Mayor of Los Angeles: "Angels of Many Faces, One L.A." -- The Changing Face of L.A. Attn: The L.A. mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa Priority 1:What is required for minority political incorporation for the future administr Continue Reading...
Suburban Baths "Bathing for Romans was a social occasion. The baths were places everybody went almost every day. Some baths were communal some were private enterprises, some were expensive and some were cheap" - Quoted by Joseph Jay Diess. Almost t Continue Reading...
urban and suburban planning. It discusses the effects that years of uncontrolled urban and suburban sprawl have had on culture, society and members of those communities. The negative health effects of urban and suburban sprawl are discussed, specifi Continue Reading...
New Suburban Poverty Suburban poverty: The new, hidden underclass Suburban poverty -- the type of poverty that exists side-by-side manicured lawns, near sprawling houses with basketball nets in the driveway -- is a relatively new phenomenon, and ra Continue Reading...
Environmental Science Suburban Sprawl: Problems and Solutions The objective of this work is to discuss the cost and benefits of low density suburban development and to who it is that gains and loses. Low density urban sprawl was seen as the answer Continue Reading...
Russia-U.S. The two cities I am going to compare are Irkutsk and Tampa. Irkutsk is located in Siberia, along the shores of the Angara River, near the shores of Lake Baikal. Tampa lies on Tampa Bay, near the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Its inland l Continue Reading...
Edge Cities" by Joel Garreau. Edge Cities Joel Garreau authored the best seller on how we build the cities that become the milestones of our civilizations because the fact is that these places are where we find our offices and shopping malls locat Continue Reading...
" Moreover, population groups "…pull up roots and seemingly go out of their way to avoid one another…" throughout Southern California, Worster writes (242). An example of the concept of "pulling up roots" is the community of Watts, which Continue Reading...
Local Elections in the City of York, UK Many Western democracies are dealing with the problem of low voter turnout in elections. The United Kingdom is no different in this regard. Local elections seem to be particularly hard hit by an absence of vot Continue Reading...
City dwellers must be free to join any number of groups to promote their interpersonal connections within the city. Such a sense of connection would create a sense of community and hence equality among everyone connecting with each other. In terms Continue Reading...
Seattle: A City of Community America is often characterized as an individualistic or an individually oriented society, rather than a group-oriented society. However, even within the American nation itself, there are distinctions to be made on a city Continue Reading...
The same is true for Castro, and the gays have to acknowledge that and accept it. Their area may change as the times change, but that is an accepted way of life in cities. Gender planning in public transit This article talks about planning travel Continue Reading...
Home Depot in New York City Comparison between Downtown and suburban locations There are notable differences in trading area size and characteristics between a downtown and a suburban location for a Home Depot as depicted in the case study; The Ho Continue Reading...
Schalch, 2008). III. The big city and the suburbs have very different environments each with its own pros and cons depending on your preferences. a. Crowd i. The fast paced city life is a maze of interesting personalities. It opens you up to diff Continue Reading...
Growing up in a Large City The world is becoming increasingly urbanized, with more than half the world's people already living it cities. By 2030, 60% of the world's people will live in cities, in contrast to 30% in 1950 (World Bank, 2010). With thi Continue Reading...
Crime in urban cities is at least 1.5 times higher than suburban or rural areas. Many factors account for this difference including higher poverty, more densely populated centers, presence of poor minorities, low education, limited resources etc. The Continue Reading...
New York City Commuter Tax and its history. The writer discusses the previous attempts to bring it forth as well as current discussions about its use. The writer argues that the tax is a bad idea. There were 15 sources used to complete this paper. Continue Reading...
Community policing arose from dissatisfaction with traditional policing. According to Brogden (1999), traditional police work focuses primarily on fighting serious crime. Proponents of community policing claim that this framework of policing has fail Continue Reading...
Iconography of Los Angeles: The Freeway City The name 'Los Angeles' has become shorthand for a whole condition of modern civilization, a state of unplanned, disordered, sprawling, polluted, congested chaos. The great mega-city of Los Angeles seems t Continue Reading...
location will lend knowledge to the present and the future. As a citizen of any region understanding the how and why of historical reflections upon the landscape of a city or town is crucial for a holistic view of the culture, economy and even of th Continue Reading...
Environmental Pollution Scenario: Review and Summary Although cities contribute to both waste and global warming because of population density and the demands of urban life, they also offer the potential to conserve energy in terms of transportation Continue Reading...
However, it would be inappropriate to conclude that the absence of available statistics means that the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office does not engage in analysis or crime mapping; they simply have not chosen to make that information available on Continue Reading...
His suggestions include two components: (1) creating more effective labor market intermediaries to make it easier for inner-city residents to find good jobs and for metropolitan employers to find good inner city workers; (2) enhancing the inner city Continue Reading...
Funding Proposal for Counseling The agency detailed in this assignment is called Mbrace Counseling and Behavioral Health Services. It provides a bevy of clinical services to a fairly wide patient population, including family members, parents, childr Continue Reading...
urbanization of Californian suburban city Lancaster. The city does not have a very long history and therefore agricultural activities never found much place here as Lancaster was driven towards industrialization from the very beginning. The paper sh Continue Reading...
Environmental Case Study Case Title: SWANCC v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Parties: The Petitioner is the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) and the respondent is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers United States Court of Appeals Continue Reading...
Postmodernism is many things to many people, yet no single product or outcome of the postmodern era is representative of the entirety of the idea. Postmodernism was more than simply a collection of items, but rather an entire way of life shaped by th Continue Reading...
Football American football is a professional sport that was derived from the game of Rugby by Walter Camp in 1879 (Bellis). Walter played football at Yale University where he attended college. He was involved in developing the football rules as we k Continue Reading...
This began with the colonizers who positioned their missions in the places that the native congregated which was also about a day's travel. The way that the railroad system developed in the region also played a part with Los Angeles developing a uni Continue Reading...
Suggesting the significance of food as a social activity, kitchens in suburban homes sometimes have their own entrances. The kitchen entrances are convenient for carrying in groceries. Regardless of where the kitchen is located in relation to the fr Continue Reading...
Sociological Issue for Specific Neighborhood Single Parent Sociological Issues in San Leandro San Leandro is a small city located in Alameda County. It is one of the major cities in the state of California and has the largest number of white reside Continue Reading...
" Despite this apparent contempt, Frank does in fact desperately want to fit in with the happy crowd he suggests he otherwise despises, but April recognizes his hypocrisy as well as her own miserable lot in suburbia and takes her own life as a conse Continue Reading...
Metropolitan growth and federal policies over the past half-century have had a highly negative impact on the poor of the central cities in the United States. Specifically, the African-American community (as well as other minority populations) has lar Continue Reading...
Violence in the Community The objective of the research reported in this study is to examine violence in the communication and specifically violence in Philadelphia, PA 19403 and surrounding suburbs. The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project Continue Reading...
