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Global Urbanization, 2005.
A looks at the relationship between urbanization, economic development and social change.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, £ 31.95
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This paper illustrates the diversity of global urban experience and examines variations in levels of urbanization and rates of change in that level over the period 1975-2000 amongst different countries and world regions and particularly among developed and developing nations. It also examines the relationships between urbanization, level of national economic development and social conditions and the inconsistencies in these relationships within different countries and regions. The data for this examination comes from three tables that provide information on levels of urbanization, population, growth rates, income and economic development for UN countries.
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Urban Globalization, 2006.
A discussion regarding the impact urban globalization is having on our world.
2,815 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 59.95
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This paper reviews, discusses and compares 'The World is Flat' by Thomas L. Friedman, 'The State of the World's Cities' by Steven Miles, 'Planning Theory and Practice' by Tovi Fenster and 'Globalization and the City' by John Rennie Short and Yeong-Hyun Kim. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the effects that urban globalization is having on society, economics and business worldwide.
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"The UNCHS report asserts that culture, when taken as a social dynamic, can be seen as more than just "a challenge to the ability of cities to combine social justice with economic growth." But beyond the thought of culture posing challenges to cities, culture should be thought of as "a driver for urban economic growth," the article explains, alluding to the UNCHS report.The juxtaposition of those two concepts is dramatic: instead of an albatross on the backs of governments, culture becomes is the force that can produce "dramatic consequences both physically in transforming the urban landscape and in building their economic performance," Miles explains. How can this be done, and what is the influence of globalization?
Within a time frame that is less than 20 years, Miles continues, "the initiation of culture-driven urban (re)generation has come to occupy a pivotal position in the new urban entrepreneurialism." The UN report points to the fact that in the "global era" the role of culture has climbed up from the ground floor (or below) of cities to the place today where in many instances culture "has assumed unprecedented significance." Moreover, culture has been redefined as a "resource" and in that role it has been used "as the means for resolving political as well as socio-economic problems, including those of the city."
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Urbanization and Rural Urban Migration in China, 2006.
A discussion on the emerging-entrepreneurial class and rural urban migrations in China.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, £ 50.95
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This paper discusses urbanization and rural urban migration in developing countries. In particular, the paper discusses the role that the entrepreneurial class, made up most of rural peasant migrants, has had on China. Basically these individuals are responsible for all of the political and economic changes in China.
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"Urbanization and rural-urban migrations are two very closely related phenomena. According to K. Jegasothy in "Population and Rural-Urban Environmental Interactions in Developing Countries," urbanization is conventionally defined as a process of spatial movement of a population towards towns and cities and their resulting expansion" (Jegasothy 1031). Urbanization is the direct result of rural-urban migrations. This is because urbanization is caused by people from rural areas moving into cities and towns. The rate of urbanization and rural-urban migrations has been increasing in recent decades."
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The Urbanization Process, 2002.
Looks at global variations in levels of urbanization and the relationship between urbanization, economic development and social conditions.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 9 sources, £ 76.95
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For people who live in a country such as Canada, most are aware of the prominence of urban centers. In fact, the majority of people live and work in urban areas in most, if not all, industrialized countries. But this only serves to focus attention on topics such as global variations in levels of urbanization as well as the relationship between urbanization, economic development and social conditions. These topics will be covered in the analysis of this paper.
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Global Warming, 2001.
This essay examines the effects of global warming on urban areas.
787 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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The object of this essay is to persuade the reader that global warming and climate change warrant immediate action. The paper explores the ways in which global warming is related to energy use and environmental problems in urban areas. It discusses the growing health risks associated with urbanization as increased carbon dioxide levels contribute to the greenhouse effect. It also explores ways in which global warming effects the overall environmental state of the world we live in.
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"Global warming currently merits immediate human action. A few preventative acts at present could offset inevitable disaster in the near future. But, we must not hesitate to act now. The rapid depletion of trees is currently being linked to the rising metropolitan and urban area temperatures. And, the rising temperatures result in an increased risk of smog which can be extremely detrimental to one?s health. The greenhouse effect paralleled with massive human exploitation of fossil fuels has resulted in increased amounts of carbon dioxide being introduced into the atmosphere and environment. Higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the air can also lead to rising temperatures. And, there is reason to believe that rising temperatures could possibly increase the distribution of infectious diseases in humans. To close our eyes in the wake of this overwhelming evidence that seems to support theories of global warming, would be congruent to pulling the proverbial wool over our eyes and walking silently like lambs to the slaughter."
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Globalization in Washington, D.C., 2007.
A look at how globalization effects the urban youth in Washington, D.C.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper examines how in many ways, the creation of a global cultural community has had a positive affect upon the intellectual and social lives of all Washington D.C. residents between the ages of twelve and twenty. It also looks at how they are the best-educated generation on new information technologies and how they benefit from economic growth. The paper then discusses the negative effects of a global cultural community such as the the lack of certain skills of poor urban youth or their early exposure to various elements of modernity and industrialization. The paper also looks at how this leads to difficulties later on, especially when it comes to competing with more affluent peers.
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"Globalization also means that jobs that once provided part-time income for students have now been exported abroad. "New technologies have replaced manual labor, mainly affecting low skilled jobs in the service sector," and many traditional low-skilled occupations that could provide the underprivileged a first foot on the job ladder have been exported overseas through outsourcing. Also: "many youth in developing countries, as well as marginalized youth in the industrialized world, are unable to fulfill their raised expectations of material well-being," that they gain from observing the lives of their richer same-age compatriots on television. "
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Urbanization, Poverty, Growth and Inequality, 2006.
Presents an overall picture of development and urbanization with various factors affecting them.
3,386 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 68.95
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This paper examines the effects of urbanization on various factors affecting development, poverty and income inequality, based on empirical data obtained from various sources. The following factors are analyzed across various countries, based on the latest data available: Economic growth measured in terms of GDP per Capita in US$ (PPP), absolute poverty at $1 per day standard, poverty gap, Gini Index, openness of trade, percentage of population living in urban areas, annual percentage migration of population to urban areas, the Corruption Perception Index ,etc. These factors are analyzed to arrive at correlations they have with urbanization in order to determine to some extent whether urbanization is inevitable for development of a country and what are the consequences associated with the phenomenon.
Paper Outline:
Urbanization and other factors affecting Economic Growth
Factors affecting Urbanization
Determinants of Poverty Deepening (Poverty Gap)
Factors Affecting Absolute Poverty
Factors Affecting Gini Index
Determinants of Human Development Index
Concluding Remarks
References and Bibliography
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"However, contrary to above, it can be seen that absolute poverty alone is not the cause for urbanization. In other words, where even in urban areas people do not find enough jobs, they would like to stay in rural areas. The negative correlation between absolute poverty (measured in terms of earning per capita less than $1 per day), and the percentage of urban population means that as poverty increases, urbanization decreases. However, this may not be the trend the world over. If we have a glance at the countries considered in this analysis, it can be seen that they are least developed countries."
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The Pros and Cons of Urbanization, 2005.
Examines the advantages and disadvantages of urbanization and industrialization.
2,356 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 51.95
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In 1938, Louis Wirth wrote an article about his observations and critiques of urbanization. While many of his observations are held to be true today, nobody can clearly define what makes up a city or an urban area. The paper argues that whether urbanization and industrialization are good is all a matter of personal opinion. While urbanization poses a threat to certain social classes and even the environment, it has also helped to evolve the way goods and services are made available to a broad area. The paper argues that ,if urbanization continues on the path that it is currently on, guidelines and boundaries will have to be put in place to prevent the destruction of all that urbanization has helped us achieve.
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"Alan Booth raised an issue of concern about overpopulation and crowding in urban areas. Urban crowding can affect a number of factors. First, the more people there are in an area, the more space people will desire due to the need for privacy. This can cause rapid expansion in what was a small crowded area. When an area expands rapidly, it can cause great environmental damage. It crowds wildlife populations and often destroys useful and fertile farm land or forests. Wildlife ecosystems respond with biological controls on fertility and birth rates that reduce populations and can lead species to become endangered in certain areas. The destruction of farm land is becoming more and more of an issue, especially in the mid-west where many of the United States' crops are grown. Land in the mid-west is fairly plentiful and peoples' desire for more personal space is leading real-estate developers to buy up land in the central U.S. and clear it for housing developments. This also applies to the metropolitan areas and some suburban areas within which the government provides housing (Booth 1976:1-10)."
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Urbanization, 2008.
A look at how sustainable development policies could solve the problems of urbanization.
1,920 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 43.95
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This paper presents an examination of urbanization and how the problems of urbanization can be met with a policy of sustainable development. The writer explores various key issues and matches them with sustainable development policies that address those issues.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Sustainable Development
Urbanization
Sustainable Development as a Policy against Urbanization Problems
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"Policies of sustainable development should include policies with regard to world pollution. If environmental issues are not tackled now and dealt with in a manner that will provide the future with natural resources the future looks very dim. As long as sustainable development policies are in place to carefully and strategically plan the use of the earth's resources while at the same time working to replace them as often as needed this will be one element of sustainable development that can be successful."
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Urbanization in Mesopotamia, 2005.
This paper discusses a program of urbanization in Mesopotamia, which was implemented to ensure the stability and security of the empire.
2,825 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 11 sources, APA, £ 60.95
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This paper explains that urbanization, the arrangement of the design of the private and public buildings of a city and that of the intra-city arteries of communication and fortifications, reflects the needs and aspirations of the community within the existing frame of the ecological and technological areas of the period. The author points out that during the last phase of the Assyrian empire, beginning with the reign of Ashur-Dan II (934-912 BC) and lasting until almost 600 BC, when the Assyrian empire dominated most of Mesopotamia and parts of Palestine, Egypt, Media and Anatolia, the Assyrian kings radically transformed the cultural, political and geographical landscape of Upper Mesopotamia by the implementation of the processes of urbanization. The paper stresses that the Chaldean tribal groups, a loosely connected with prominent chieftains opposing urbanization, shifted allegiance according to the distribution of military strength, refused to pay taxes or to render services to the government, waylaid caravans and to attack and plunder settlements and small cities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Program of Urbanization
Administrative Restructuring
Capitals
Economic Foundation
Southern Societies
Uruk and Ur
Anti-Urban Bias
Citizenship
Conclusion
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"In these Mesopotamian cities, there grew a concept of citizenship that was the result of the driving force of the urbanization process. The old and important cities enjoyed certain privileges and exemptions with respect to the king and his power. They had a legal status that differentiated in essential points from that of any other community, In Babylonia, these cities were Nippur, Babylon, and Sippar, in Assria, the old capital Asur, and later, Harran in Upper Mesopotamia. In principle, the inhabitants of these free cities claimed freedom from work, freedom from military service, as well as a tax exemption. These privileges were neither new nor exception, Certain persons with restructed libery, in the Sumerian empire of Ur were said to be exempted from carrying earth, and inhabitants of Nippur were exempted from military service and paying tribute in silver and gold. This shows that the resistance against the claims of a central authority for services of its subjects is characteristics not only of a non urbanized group, but also one of the aspirations of city-dwellers."
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Social Urbanization, 2006.
This paper analyzes the social urbanization of America for the past 150 years, focusing primarily on Los Angeles, CA.
1,337 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 31.95
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This paper examines the various methods of studying urbanization which include community formation and the process of urbanization. This paper also discusses advanced computer software programs that reveal concise developing patterns and complex sciences such as chaos and fragile theory which tell about the inner workings of cities. This paper describes how the emergence of new living patterns are a direct response to technology, modes of transportation and individual preferences. For more than 100 years urban theorists have contended that the balance of forces between white and black and male and female is a natural condition, yet this paper proves why this is no longer true. The writer focuses on the urbanization of L.A. which is more fragmented than most other multicultural municipalities due to its large Hispanic population. This paper also touches on the introduction of Islam into the African-American community and the resulting impact.
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"Since 1966, and the theories of Jane Jacobs and post-modern urbanists, urbanists view the city as a living organism--one whose many cycles can be captured better on film then by a static plan. Indeed computer programs that reveal developing patterns and complex sciences, such as chaos and fragile theory, tell us much more about how cities really work than the old mechanic models of modern architects. An excellent candidate for such a study would be that complex, unexplainable entity known as Los Angeles. According to a United Nations report published in 1992, more than one million refugees migrated around the globe--compared to a World War II high of 16 million."
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Urbanization and the Ecosystem, 2004.
A discussion on how urbanization negatively impacts the area of Chicago, U.S.A.
976 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 24.95
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As the world's population has grown, it has become increasingly concentrated in large urban areas. The extent to which urbanization impacts the ecosystems of these cities is an important, emerging area of study. Access to nature is vital to the physical, mental, emotional, and social health of humans and their communities. This paper examines how increasing urbanization is depriving current and future generations of exposure to functional, productive, green space; contributing to rising crime, violence, social alienation, poverty, and hunger; and other individual and community-level dysfunctions. This paper examines the effects of urbanization on Chicago, an older developed city.
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"The rapid development of land for urban uses is the main threat to the remaining unprotected natural lands of Chicago, and in some cases it is causing serious degradation of protected lands, too (Chicago Wilderness, 1999). Development affects natural communities in a variety of ways. Urban development increases the number of paved surfaces, which changes the natural flow of water across the landscape (because the water is not absorbed). This changes the structure of wetlands, streams and rivers, and reduces water quality by allowing more silt and chemical pollutants to pollute the city?s bodies of waters. Sprawling development reduces air quality because it forces residents to drive more than they might in well-planned communities. The more time people spend in their cars, the more air pollution they produce. Sprawling development also breaks natural areas into small fragments, threatening animals that can only breed successfully in large continuous habitats."
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Urbanization in the Third World, 2002.
Outlines numerous risks associated with urbanization in developing countries.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 10 sources, £ 57.95
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Urbanization in the developing world has various pitfalls, which often relate to the phenomenon of hyper-urbanization. This paper describes the patterns of much Third World urbanization with reference to related economic, social, and political problems.
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Urbanization, 2002.
Explores some of the concerns associated with urbanization in developing countries.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 7 sources, £ 25.95
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The paper addresses some important questions in connection with rapid growth of population in urban centers of the developing countries. Though rate of urbanization has decreased significantly in the industrialized countries, it is still a major cause of concern for the third world because of the delayed development of their urban cities.
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