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    Introduction Transit Oriented Development (TOD) began as a counter-movement to urban sprawl and it’s economic, social, and environmental impacts by moving more towards the garden city movement of the 19th century be designating areas for specific land use, while also, employing the design of multiuse buildings. By looking at the greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area there is a need to accommodate for future cities by employing community and regional design concepts. Content The future of living is cities

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    The Influence of American Industrialization on the Projects of Le Corbusier: the Ville Contemporaine. The end of the twentieth century was marked by the unprecedented scale of construction, huge advances in science and technology: new advanced designs, building materials, construction technology and strategies.1 Along with that, architects have been disclosing the failure of the traditional aesthetic concepts in the art of postmodern architecture, which were based on the assumption that politics

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    Richard Hofstadter in his book under the Title “The American Republic since 1865” makes a vivid description of the urban reforms that took place in the United States of America. There are two editions of the book, the first and second edition. The publication came to the public limelight in 1959. The great works of writing are by Prentice-Hall publishers. The original text was from the University of Virginia. The digital print of the book was available as from 2010. The publication has a total of

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    the plan appears to be thorough and complete, this very characteristic may also prove to be a weakness. As sustainable technologies and even planning methodologies improve, a plan as cohesive as the current Portland Plan may leave little breathing room to accommodate the integration of future improvements without large investments and comprehensive re-planning. In addition, plans as comprehensive as this one is tend to leave less room for the creative expression, which adds diversity and charm to

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    Wellesley Communities

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    important factor in the prevention of obesity and its associated adverse health consequences (Dannenberg et al. 2003). So in order for a community to be healthy they must reach certain criteria and there must be important decisions made during the urban planning that will benefit the town in the future. There is an other reason why i chose to research the town of wellesley and that reason is that Wellesley mass has one of the strongest and most powerful community that i know. The town has its own government

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    Poems: City Planners

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    Anthology, but may be interesting for unseen poetry too. Question Set How do these poets use language and structure to get across their theme? I wrote this in about half an hour. Both poems are very similar, and have the same topic - City Planning - as shown in their titles. Structurally, they are different though, and the tone differs in places. I've marked headings for each paragraph to show, roughly, what each one is about, with major areas in CAPS (see my post on STILTS as a way to compare

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    buildings; it is a connection between the individual buildings to “emotional-infrastructure” like our parks, our roads, public buildings, walkways and many more. From the beginning, I was very much interested in understanding the relationship between urban form and trust. As I believe that the way we design our cities has a strong effect how we behave with other people and it make us generous or mean. When I studied about “Indus-Valley Civilization” in “History of Architecture”, I was amazed to know

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    Architecture Architecture deals with the design stage of structures and uses a blend of scientific knowledge and creativity to develop structures of all shapes and sizes. Building and town planning follows suit. Building courses teach candidates how to follow the design through to completion, while town planning looks at the possible effects that might become apparent from the implementation of the design of a new development or building. All three areas are linked, although they are separate disciplines

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    Adding to that to work with the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to repeal provisions in the Citizenship Act that give the government the right to strip citizenship from dual nationals. Eliminate regulations that remove the credit provided to international students for half of the time that they spend in Canada and regulations that require new citizens to sign a declaration that they intend to reside in Canada. Trudeau also expects for McCallum to

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    this project was an interesting and creative way to integrate what we’ve learned in this quarter of the Honors course in regards to urban agriculture, as well as from the “marketing phase” of the course, skills learned through working as GenSTEM, plus engineering design and communications knowledge, such that we can see how we can directly impact a community with urban agriculture. I individually contributed to the communications plan for the Harambee Neighborhood by researching ways to obtain community

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