LA Case Study

The traffic problem in Atlanta drains both time and money for thousands. It has been shown that Atlanta drivers spend on average 51 unnecessary hours behind the wheel each year (WSB Radio, 2013). That’s more than two 24 hour days spent sitting in traffic. During all this time spent, Atlantans end up spending upwards of $1000 per year on gas and collectively use 63,000,000 gallons of gas each year while sitting in traffic (WSB Radio, 2013). Traffic in Atlanta has been a huge waste of time and money for Atlantans for years and something needs to be done to alleviate the

In Los Angeles, it’s a very popular and expensive place to live, and due to many reasons over 55,000 people have been homeless, up to 2006 the homeless would get arrested for laying in public areas, losing all of their belongings. In the case of Jones v. City of Los Angeles six homeless people appealed their acclimation and won, causing the city to remove that law. In the Case of Jones v. Los Angeles, the court made the right decision because this law acted against the 8th and 14th amendment.

In Doucette v. City of Santa Monica, the defendant city enacted a solicitation ordinance, whose purpose was to impose reasonable place and manner limitations on solicitation, in order to protect the general public from abusive solicitations. Doucette, 955 F. Supp. at 1201. The ordinance prohibited “requests made in person seeking an immediate donation of money or other items of value” in areas including bus stops, public transportation vehicles or facilities, public parking lots or structures, outdoor dining areas, and within fifty feet of automated teller machines. Id. Plaintiffs filed suit against the city, alleging that the ordinance violated the First Amendment. Id. at 1198. The city argued that the ordinance "only seek[s] to regulate locations

In St. Louis, one in two black children, opposed to one in 25 white children, attend a school that is non-accredited. This means that the school performs so poorly that they don’t meet basic standards to provide students the opportunity for academic success. After her school was stripped of its accreditation, Mah’Ria was bused to a different school district, one that valued students more than the Normandy school district did. Mah’Ria is a high-performing student who desperately wanted a better education, but was denied that right based on where she lived. Not only were classes too easy and the teacher’s incompetent, but also the school as a whole was disorganized. For students like Mah’Ria, low-quality schools have a negative impact on them and begin to discourage them from even trying to create a different life path, because

The founding of Los Angeles positively influenced the United States economically and politically, is based on immigrants in Early America. The founding of Los Angeles began with Spanish colonial Governor, Felipe de Neve. Felipe, along with 44 other settlers from Mexico, created a Pueblo nearby river Porcuncula. They called the Pueblo, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porcuncula (Our Lady the Queen of the angels of Porcincula). Furthermore, the motive for establishing the Pueblo was to stress the Spanish’s declaration over the territory.

Twin City is located in eastern Emanuel County, approximately 12 miles east of swainsboro, the county seat.Twin City Historic District encompasses residential, commercial, and community landmark resources associated with the development of two towns that were incorporated as one in 1921. Railroad Avenue/Georgia Highway 23 trends northeast-southwest through the center of the district, following the railroad (tracks removed in 1951- 1952). The northeast part of the district is the historic commercial and residential area of Summit, and the southwest part of the district is the historic commercial and residential area of Graymont. Located between the two towns at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and U.S. Hwy 80 is the area established in the

My Center’s “Must Win” Zip code is 30045. It covers a large portion of the city of Lawrenceville. The median income is about $72,000 per year. The population, according to the last census is just 0ver 31,000. The culture is diverse. The area is 74.1% American born in the Sates and 25.9% from other foreign countries such as Haiti, Nigeria, Mexico, Columbia. The unemployment rate is high, around 8.7 percent. The top employers in the area are local businesses and corporation. Some offer good worker’s compensation package, but layoffs can be common when the economy slumps. The most contracts written in the zip code is by the Navy about 36%. The High Schools in this zip code are cooperative with recruiters, but not overly supportive. This is a space where much improvement can be made.

Many people pay traffic fines in California, but not everyone is impacted in the same way. According to a new report from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area [1], traffic fines in California have an outsize effect on low-income drivers and people of color.

C. Compute the cost of delivering a “10 X 20” X20’ X15” box, weighing 40 pounders, from your hometown to long beach California. Compare the fastest delivery against the least cost. How long did this process take? Looking into the business services offered by UPS. How do they make this process easier when you are a business customer?

Then, ethnicities of Indian, African, Mulatto and probably many others settled in. Soon, it was part of Mexico in 1821 ensuing the Mexican War of Independence. During Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles, Alta California's regional capital. Mexican rule ended during the Mexican–American War: Americans took control from the Californians after a sequence of fighting, culminating with the signing of the Treaty on January 13, 1847.

On May 1st, 1893, the political and economic elite of the city of Chicago spared no expense when they host the Columbian Exposition, which showcased the technological, economic, and social capabilities of the United States of America and the City of Chicago to the world (Hoyt, 2003). For the United States, this cultural, technological, and economic showcase was an example of the massive capabilities of the country that now rivaled—perhaps even surpassed the capabilities of Europe. For Chicago, the hope was to cement a change in its social and cultural appearance to the outside world. Although one of America’s fastest growing cities—as well as one of the largest, Chicago was having immense struggles with its image as its impoverished and marginalized

While the firing of Charles Lester is over, ocean-lovers, surfers, and beach lovers alike cannot just let the new CCC have its way. We cannot let the bottomless pockets of developers speak too loudly to CCC members. We have to speak just as loudly, and remain aware of the actions taking place in our local areas. Write to your representatives; join action organizations such as Surfrider, if you have not already. Be aware of the events

On Thursday, July 28, 2013, Detroit, Michigan became the largest city in America ever to file for bankruptcy.

Advantages. Building the tunnels creates jobs and helps boost the economy (CNN Citation). Other wildlife can also use the tunnels to cross the roads.

Los Angeles flourished into one of the nation's largest and busiest metropolitan area thanks to many advancements and creation of public transportation. What started off as private companies with rail lines travelling north to San Francisco and lines to the East coast, has thrived to the several bus, light rail, heavy rails, and bus rapid transit services control by the Public transportation agency LACMTA. LACMTA stand for Los Angeles County Metropolitan authority and they purchased the privately owned public transportation services to have control of all types of public transportation modes available in the Los angeles County. While LACMTA, or Metro as it is more commonly referred to, offers a high number of travel options, most