Large Urban Cities In America

In Chapter 2 of the text “Slavery, Emancipation, and Class formation in colonial and Early National New York” explores the centrality of slave labor and race to the development of class relations in colonial and early national New York City. In the 1600’s slave labor was noted as the central point to New York’s colonial economy and to the survival of European culture. The North colonial economy relied more heavily on slavery for free laborer than Manhattan. As a result of the slave era African American males and females became to central force and the foundation of New Yorkers ‘slave economy. Between 1600 and 1738 the slave population

Post World War Two brought upon not only the Baby Boom but urbanization of the African American community and the Great Black Migration. As the birth rate rapidly increased so did construction growth. However developers began pulling people to the outskirts of cities by creating affordable track homes. Along with the GI Bill this allowed people to afford homes and brought upon a surge in consumption. The growth in consumption and development pulled African Americans to Northern and Western cities in search of a better life. They were tired of the oppression and sought out better opportunities economically. As African Americans and the population moved from the country life to the city, the United States became highly urbanized.

This paper is a review of past and current research based on the cause and effect of urban sprawl in the United States with a case analysis of Fairfax County, Virginia. The motivation for this review is to shed light on issues that surround urban sprawl in large metropolitan areas and to discuss recommendations for research and ways to improve various effects of sprawl. The second motivation for this research is to show that there needs to be uniformity among researchers and urban planners, better data and analysis should be done to combat sprawl. My goal with this literature review is to define urban sprawl, define classic patterns in the United States, how we measure sprawl, the cause and effect of sprawl in the United States, give detailed background information on Fairfax County, future trends and implications of sprawl in Fairfax County, how to combat sprawl in the United States as well as in Fairfax County and key priorities in future research.

Step one: I will refine and update the Ewing et al. (2002) metropolitan sprawl indices to 2010This study will differ from the Ewing et al.’s 2002study in three respects. First, it will include additional metrics from various data sources such as Walk Score, NAVTEQ road data, Smart Location Databases and National Land Cover Database in order to increase validity and captures more aspects of each four dimensions (development density, land use mix, activity centering and street accessibility).

Every settled nation will at some point go through urbanization – the mass movement to urban areas. In the United States, one of the largest examples of urbanization was in the time period 1865 to 1910. By 1900, almost forty percent of all Americans lived in urban towns and cities. This rapid movement brought about substantial change in all aspects of the country. Some aspects were altered more than others, for example society as a whole, the economy, and city government. Urbanization has had a substantial impact on city government, the economy, and society in the time period 1865 to 1910 through various contributing factors in each area. However, this impact was not always beneficial, and many times contributed to the detriment of the

Both industrialized countries and the U.S. are similiar in the fact they had similiar "growing pains" becoming urbanized. Similarities such as decline in manufacturing, changes in industry to high tech, growth in the service industry, growth of immigrant workers, cutbacks in social welfare, division of highly paid professionals and low paid workers and the emergence of multicentered metropolitan regions to name a few.

Ten million dollars is a lot of money. When this money has been generated over years of increased taxes, and is to be put back into a community, it’s important to know that this money is being used wisely. Ten million dollars is the amount of money that the Budlong Woods community is using in their “Tax Increment Financing Redevelopment Area Project.” This paper will investigate the current state of the Budlong Woods community, as well as the specific focus areas of the redevelopment project and determine whether Budlong Woods is on track to be Chicago’s next successful neighborhood.

When travelers arrived in the metropolitan areas, they found that it was over crowded. Also, due to the large population, jobs went rapidly. This was just another pull back to the rustic community. The jobs travelers had left were becoming needed causing the pay to escalate. In addition to this, artists moving out of the towns could take these offers of employment that had been left behind.

The area that constitutes New York City today was originally populated by the Lenape people. These autonomous groups of Native Americans were “dozen-odd groups” who lived between today’s Eastern Connecticut and central New Jersey. They spoke an Algonquian language, lived in seasonal campsites, and dedicated their lives to fishing, farming, and hunting. The first European to enter the New York Harbor was the Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verraza, who was at the time searching for a northwest passage to Asia. Despite the short visit, he named the area Nouvelle-Angoulême in honor of the principal state of the King of France (Burrows and Wallace).

In the United States nowadays, many people live in big cities where the population is twenty-five to thirty thousand people. These cities may have every restaurant you can think of, but they aren’t always the safest place to be. This is why much of the populace enjoy living in a small town.

“Green” is hardly a term used for parking lots of the last twenty years or so, though perhaps is has become more increasingly popular over the past few years when faced with the idea of the global impact. The idea of carbon dioxide playing such a huge factor in the climate changes of the last century or so is not a new conclusion, in fact most scientist many eons ago concluded that carbon dioxide is one of the single biggest causes of climate change. To think that massive asphalt and concrete causes urban heat islands cause the increase of global proportions, and if so, there must be some things as contributors, we could do to stop the influx of human-caused land changes on climate.

Based on studies, the sustainability of using green roofs rely on the fact that they involve a reduction in heating and cooling loads. Especially for houses that have air conditioners, green roofs help in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are usually associated with air conditioning. Because of the normal warm weather in Melbourne, homeowners have air conditioners as their key sources of energy consumption. Same goes for the commercial sector. And because much of this energy is supplied through electricity, homes and commercial spaces serve as major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. It is because of this knowledge that homeowners nowadays have begun exploring other technologies that offer ways to reduce HVAC loads in their homes. One of the best options is the use of green

As a country, we spend so much money and exhaust so many fossil fuels keeping our houses warm in the winter and cool in the summer. The US Energy Information Administration’s 2013 International Energy Outlook projects that worldwide energy consumption will grow by 56% between 2010 and 2040, from 524 quadrillion BTUs to 820 quadrillion BTUs. More than 30% of all carbon dioxide emissions in many developed nations is heating or cooling buildings.

The modern ‘Mega-City’ is typically defined as a metropolitan agglomeration with over 10 million residents. In 2014, this definition can be applied to over 30 cities around the world with cities like Tokyo reaching approximately 37 million people. In order to ascertain the effects such sprawling cities may have on their residents, an analysis of some of the major issues that develop in such large urban metropolises will be explored. As late as the early 19th century, only 3% of the world’s population lived in cities, this rose to 30% in 1950 and at present time approximately 50% of the world’s population currently reside in cities. Around the world, cities comprise only 2% of the earth’s surface and by the year 2030, predictions suggest

Progressive deterioration of global warming and protection of environment are important areas of interest for the whole world. Buildings as an underlying cause are responsible for global warming. Edwards (1996) pointed out that building has a key role to play as they are one of the major sources of energy consumption. And he (1996) also stated with some statistics to support this point that buildings account for about half of all global – energy, water, and raw materials as well as in the EU (Edwards, 1996, P. xiv). And another data is that buildings constitute about 45 per cent of carbon-dioxide emissions (John, 1998, P. xi). In addition, buildings should be accountable to most of land loss in agriculture. But it does not