City

2013 The City of Detroit became the largest city in United States history to filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in the amount was 20 billion dollars (Bomey,Priddle,Snavely 2013). How does once an productive city fall so far it has resort to filing for bankruptcy? This story of Detroit's bankruptcy starts in the 1950's. The City of Detroit has its highest population to date which is 1.85 million,which includes 290,000 manufacturing jobs (Weber,2013). With the promise of jobs that the City of Detroit

The city of Chicago, Illinois has a total population of 2,695,598. The largest population out of my three cities, the population is composed of 31.7 percent non- Hispanic whites and the second largest contributor to the city’s total population is Non-Hispanic Blacks with 32.4 percent. Hispanic or Latinos consist of 28.9 percent of the population. I have chosen this city as an immigrant city due to the sheer numbers of Hispanic population. Another reason it was chosen as such, was because out of

What factors do you expect from a city? Easy public transport? easy to access food? Decent entertainment and community centres? A large city would be an easy place to find all these. One of the key factors about the city is to find a job for survival. Finding a job is easier since more jobs are probably available. When you get a job and if you dislike it or get fired, you will have more choices. Another important factor is access in the city with ease, such as easy availability of trams/trains/taxi

Union City, Pennsylvania is where I have lived my entire life. It is a great, small, friendly town, depending on who you ask. Over the span of my lifetime, I have heard comments that vary about the residents overall satisfaction with Union City. To me, it is about neutral because the several advantages and disadvantages are nearly equal in my eyes. However, depending on your home life, social status, and personal liking, Union City may or may not be the town for you. Over the years, I become more

begins by determining the significance of city parks followed by an analysis of the state of city parks in Egypt. The literature will also discuss whether or not the landscape is appropriate for city park development. Wolch, Byrne and Newell (2014) note that the world’s cities are progressively becoming populated and urban green space provide a variety of ecosystem services that could assist counter social ill and enhance the life of city dwellers. City parks are know to have several effects on the

in regards to different elements of compact cities and sprawls. These arguments are based on their respective views and literature reviews that raises questions on the environmental friendliness, economic efficiency, social equity and the place of technology on future development of cities. Gordon and Richardson arguments propose sprawls instead of compact cities. Although most planners advocate for compact cities, they are convinced that compact cities are not always beneficial in the long run.

The desire for a Utopian city is not a surprising aspiration. While in an ideal world cities could be plotted and planned out perfectly, the readings from this week explore why this is not productive to attempt in society, and also discuss the problems with city planning and government policies. While the readings do not necessarily complement each other entirely, they all appear to be speaking for the same message. The rigorous structure and planning, whether by city planners or government organizations

select four bus stop where along the Gordon street and analysis each area behind the bus stops base on the city of Guelph documents. Gordon street is the busiest and main street in the Guelph city, and many bus lines should pass the Gordon street to the other places. The first bus stop we choose is Guelph Central Station which is the main transit station in the city, the second is Royal city park stop which represents entertainment and green space in downtown Guelph, the third stop closes to Campus

Effects of over population in Mexico City There are parts of the world that have an alarming overpopulation rate, one of these locations is Mexico city which is located in the Federal District, Capital of the Country of Mexico. Mexico City's enormous population continues to rapidly increase every day. With approximately 20 million residents; up from 9 million only 20 years ago, Mexico City is considered the most populous urban center on earth. There are many people in the country of

Cities consist of a mass of residents, businesses, and culture all concentrated into one specific area. With that being said, we can all agree that these things are important in order to make a city livable and preserve its diversity, residents, sidewalks, parks, and the sizes of its blocks. Everyone has their own opinion of what make a city livable. For instance, city planners also known as decentrist believe that the standard way of building a city was the right way of doing things. Their idea