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    This is essay number one and topic number one. The growth of manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. The impact on growth of cities, employment of skilled and unskilled workers, and role of women, families, laws and national policies. Most of the people worked at home or on farms, this before the Industrial Revolution. If people did or had to work away from home, then they most likely worked in workshops or in a small building. Then during the Industrial Revolution, factories made

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    Population Pollution

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    growing population, most in high-rise towers that will increase population density throughout the region. That construction brings noise, but those disturbances are temporary. As people, and their cars, move into the new condos and townhomes, the city will likely face an increase in ambient noise levels, which can disturb sleep, increase stress response and contribute to cardiac disease in more of its urban residents. At least that can be expected, if the regional planners don’t to start looking

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    The term "gentry" is referred to landed people, or as it was known in the old British society, "the privileged", but in the 21st century it is known as the upper middle class. Gentrification has gained the reputation as the modernization of urban neighborhoods. For centuries many metropolitan cities have grown, become static, and perished. In this process a big part of the population have been forced to give up their lifestyle; therefore, leading to the neglecting of public spaces and raising poverty

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    History’ Human Geographer David Ley defines Gentrification as “the transition of inner-city neighborhoods from a status of relative property and limited property investment to a state of commodification and reinvestment.” (Ley Artists 1) In the past 50 years gentrification has swept over cities across the globe and has completely reshaped the way people think about why people live in certain neighborhoods. British sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in 1964 to describe what was happening

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    Appendix Research Questions 1. Mutualism of futuristic zero emission vehicles and Eco cities a. Introduction to Msdar City b. Design and Technologies c. Markets and consumers d. Architectural issues we might face in the future e. Evolving mobility: How could the automobile contribute in an urban Eco-city? 2. Use of natural energy in futuristic vehicles & eco cities a. Future of renewable energy b. Future of wireless energy transfer c. Future solutions to researchable batteries d. Future of solar

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    Gentrification brings positive long term effects to communities and cities nationwide. Direct results of gentrification for both the residents and the city are the economical growth, local job opportunities created and a higher tax base available. (Stacey Sutton, Urbanly planning Scholar, defined gentrification as): Gentrification is the process of higher status people renovating lower class urban neighborhoods to satisfy middle-higher class standards (Sutton, 2015). In the process of gentrification

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    Unless someone watches the news and keeps up with government spending, there is a chance they are not knowledgeable of three recent proposals made by Mayor Megan Barry. These two extreme expenditures are on their way to become reality. One of them being a new transit referendum in order to reduce pollution and rush hours for commuters. The second one is an MLS expansion which would bring a professional men's soccer team to Nashville along with a pricey stadium. Finally the third being, a one point

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    When in 1885 Karl Benz designed, and developed the first 4 stroke engine that would later become the very heart of the first automobile that we are familiar with today. At the time however, the early inventors and pioneers of the automobile industry thought just of their work as a “horseless carriage” and nothing more, none of them anticipated the age of the automobile that was about to be ushered in, for they just saw the new technology strictly in the context of what it was meant to replace. The

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    States, right in the middle. Colorado is situated around the center of US. Minnesota has a population of 5450000 people and Colorado has a population of 5350000 people. The capital of Minnesota is Saint Paul, but the biggest city is Minneapolis. Both the capital and the biggest city is Denver in Colorado. Colorado is situated in a high location. Both of these states are popular for their sports industry. Climate Minnesota has a continental climate with very cold winters and warm summers. Colorado has

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    situation and conflicts of gentrification have risen as a result of the dot-com boom during the 1990’s to 2000’s, where many professionals in the computer, marketing, and business industry moved into San Francisco, changing the social landscape of the city, as once poorer neighborhoods were slowly replaced by wealthy young individuals (“To Whom Does”). The Mission District was not always like this. Originally home to the Ohlone, the Spanish colonized and established missionaries in the Mission in 1776

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