Metrocables : Causes And Symbols Of Globalization In The City

Talking about the center of Colombia is referring the contrast of mountains and rivers. However, the Bogota River is the most important river of the landscape of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. This hydric source has an indelible mark in the history of the country. During the Pre-Columbian era, this river allowed the Muisca civilization establishment. During the colonial and the republican era of Colombia, the river permitted the development of several towns. Nevertheless, the has resulted in the river contamination. Currently, the Bogota River presents unhealthy conditions areas. Studying this environmental issue requires describing the actors’ interaction among the river trajectory. Besides that, understating how this problem should be approach implies analyzing government role and the adaptation of the environmental notions to this context.

When you look at the country of Young Metro you might say it looks like a young and inexperienced country. But, once you meet the residents you see how the country's history, cherishable culturable values and government and economic systems will change your perspective. As shows, these can change your and metropolitan perspectives on this on growing country. Besides a shape and words on a map, Young Metro is a home to many and has room for more.

Metropolitan segregation can be seen from both micro and macro levels, this divide is apparent through racial segregation across communities and also by examining the outcomes of district and industry zoning. Laden in urban segregation is the process of gentrification, which acts as an agent of change regarding spatial relationships among different social groups. Segregation has always been a component of the urban dynamic, this structure of divide has shifted and metamorphosed as a result of inevitable changes over time. These evolving social, economic and political frameworks must be addressed in order to provide a thorough study of the motives behind segregation, as well as the resulting ramifications.

Tijuana, San Diego, it is not only a a dominant manufacturing center in the San diego, but also a home of more than 4000000 people. The promotion of the industrial development results in the dramatically grew of the maquiladora industry. Nonetheless, few people notice the environmental health effects of maquiladoras which the low-income and minority group are facing in their neighborhoods. When the harmful industry activities are unevenly distributed in the area of Tijuana, the spatial injustice also emergences. Actually, the people who live in Tijuana expose in a higher age-infant mortality and perinatal mortality comparing to other district in San Diego. Everyday, the resident breathes in the toxic air and even uses the polluted water which flows from the maquiladoras. The growing of factories in this area causes a serious threat to the health of the resident due to the solvents, acids, and heavy metals. On the other hand, the air quality problem in Tijuana is extremely serious when the level of black carbon were two times higher than in other place of San Diego. In fact, Soja demonstrates about the idea of unjust geographies when he mentions, “Unjust geographies arises endogenously or internally from the distributional inequalities through decision making by individual, firms and government” (9, Soja). When the city planner and government allow the

Guerilla warfare and drug gangs in the “favelas of Brazil” pushed many families to emigrate to the United States and Canada; separating families (“Latin America” 3). The people of Latin America love pursuing human contact, so those families that did stay found themselves in the cites. That is because opportunity lied in the city, and no longer on the country-side; therefore, leading to a constant flow of people from rural to urban areas. The author says, “In Latin America, urban culture was not created by industrial growth; it predated it” (“Latin America” 4).

However, the reason why I decided to make San Jose the basis of my research is due to the fact that it is my parents' hometown and I lived there for 2 years on top of the collective months in which I would visit during my summer breaks. This gives me to opportunity to incorporate some of my first-hand accounts of the town rather than basing my research solely off secondary sources. Thus, my relation with the town allows me to find a solution that is not only backed up by logistic information, but also be something that incorporates the trends and ideology of the residents in the town of San Jose De Los Reynoso.

We stayed in a hotel in Miraflores, a wealthy district of Lima. The main street, filled with bright lights and tall buildings, gave an impression that a city like London or New York would give, but only one street away the buildings consisted of unfinished four story hotels and parks filled with stray cats. The hotel had an open roof, so I went to get a view of the city, and I saw something very different from what I hoped for. Almost every building had unfinished additional floors, with only tin roofs over their heads. Shockingly, this went on for miles in the wealthiest district of the city.

As Americans scale back their dependence on automobiles, some homebuyers seek out communities that don't require cars to get around. One resource is WalkScore.com, which rates neighborhoods throughout the U.S. based on access to public transit and proximity to grocery stores, parks and more." I think walkability has become more important in many markets, especially amongst millennials," says Ken Wilson, president of the Appraisal Institute, a professional association for real estate appraisers, and founder of Wilson Realty Advisors in Dallas. "You're also finding empty nesters that are looking into properties that have walkability."

Urbanization is likely to be one of the defining phenomena of the 21st Century for Latin America as well as the rest of the developing world. The world as a whole became more urban than rural sometime in 2007, a demographic change that was driven by rapid urbanization in the developing countries. For the Latin American region, this

In the mid to late twenties, the Soviet Union began to disregard anti-urbanism. The precise opposite of what the anti-urbanist had postulated in the early twentieth century concerning population shifts came true: peasants began to seek embitterment within cities, not small villages.19 As populations soared in cities, city organs must have been perplexed considering what anti-urbanist had told them. The metro project coincided with the beginning of the end for anti-urbanism within the Soviet Union. The metro debate began afresh in 1931 through a series of articles, that attacked the anti-urbanist and defended the metro. The anti-urbanists were on the defensive immediately. They saw no reason to build a metro within a densely populated center

In 1990s America, obtaining freedom from governmental control became a social preoccupation. Starting with liberalism’s demand for increased individual freedom, what began as a small movement eventually transformed into a culture-wide fight for social justice and economic growth to create a free market where, ideally, no government would be needed. Activists term this modern movement “neo-liberalism,” or global market liberalism (capitalism), which calls for free-trade policies. While adopting such a system for American cities has been advocated by many people for its economic benefits, it also necessarily creates new relations between the city government and the residents who live there, which in turn affects the urban environment and social relations within the city. The question is a persistent one in our place and time: to globalize, or not to globalize?

The participation of the central government willing to support transportation changes appeared at different periods. The first attempt was during the administration of León Febres Cordero (1984-1998) giving support to the Empresa Municipal de Transporte. After him, Rodrigo Borja’s (1988-1992) team developed plans that will improve transportation in the city. Their main idea was to acquire a train to connect the south of the city with the valleys. Nevertheless, that option was not the best alternative due to the few population living at the valleys (Interviewer X, 2016). During this administration, ideas of decentralizing power to local authorities grew, and the congress began to discuss about it . Finally, Sixto

The process of people moving into cities, which is called urbanisation, was happening around the world in past decades. It causes cities to have more labourers and resources than before. This makes a big contribution to the social development of cities. Thanks to these social developments, public services are becoming better in these areas. Citizens can enjoy a better life by access these public services such as better medical care, more education resources and well-built transport. It means an equitable society can be created. An equitable society means citizens can have more opportunities to access social resources and to live a better life. This essay will argue that

The original objective of creating the Metrocables was to fight poverty, unemployment, violence, and crime in Medellin (Bea, 2016). Given that both poverty and unemployment have already been discussed, the focus now turns to crime and security. In addition to the apparent changes made in the commercial realm that have multiplied businesses and created jobs for the previously unemployed, residents of these neighbourhoods have noticed changes made in terms of crime and safety. As previously touched upon, up until the 1990’s, Medellin’s history of violence led to the lack of surveillance and safety in the city as well as in the rural areas. Over time, the Metrocables have had a positive impact on the crime and safety sector of Medellin. Those who reside in the neighbourhoods around the Metrocables have noticed a decrease in incidence related to gang warfare, crime, and violence since the implementation of these aerial cable-cars (Agudelo, 2013). Since the Metrocables are a relatively new form of urban mobility in these areas, security measures have been taken via surveillance to ensure that this mode of transportation is benefitting people and living up to its original intentions. With the arrival of the Metrocables came great surveillance not only in the cable-car stations but even in the close surrounding areas as well. When commuters are traveling via Metrocables, they feel safe enough to carry cash in their pocket, a feeling they do not have while using different forms of

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