Growing city

important for every developing as well as the developed countries to make a Resilient city. Resilient cities are the one that has developed capacities to help absorb future shocks and stresses to its social, economic, and technical systems and infrastructures to still be able to maintain essentially the same functions, structures, systems, and identity.” As the definition clearly states about how to make the city to be more stable due to extreme usage of resources that leads to the degradation of

Los Angeles growing into one of the busiest cities with a mixture of affluent and poverty neighborhood. However, there are invisible signs like physical security (private cops or guards), set metal fence around buildings and other objects that meant to push underprivileged people away while allow privileged people in. The city itself witnessed a lot of redevelopment process in public spaces based on architectural design over the years as many immigrants moved in various areas that impacted middle

the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in cities, with 90 percent of urban growth taking place in the developing world. Increasing population growth in the existing urban areas and rapid urbanisation is leading to need for increased land area to accommodate the growing population. Rapid urbanization is turning villages are into towns, towns into big cities and cities in to metropolitan cities. This is leading to various emerging challenges that urban areas today have

The city of Detroit is sad sight to behold. Once a thriving city, Detroit used to have a population of approximately 1.8 million people and at one point, it was one of the well-paid cities in the United States. Now, Detroit only has a population of about 700,000. The drop in population was the consequence of job loss and many other problems that Detroit is faced with. These problems include: the city filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the nearly 80,000 abandoned buildings, the highest crime rate in

Sustainable Cities One of the most extreme and rapidly growing anthropogenic pressures on the natural world is urbanization. The process of urbanization has been dynamic playing out over multiple scales of space and time. According to complexity theory, cities have been interpreted as complex, dynamics, self-organizing systems that are continually changing under pressures of certain factors due to internal processes and external factors (Galderisi). Urban areas have been growing twice as fast as

encourage young people to move to the megacities to seek better educational opportunities. The universities in the urban areas of the big cities have attractive facilities, which promote students to move to the urban areas. They have a highly stander educational system, international purposeful teaching methods, highly professional academic staff and research institutions for postgraduate students. In addition, they have unrestricted academic choices; the students can select exactly what they want

Country People vs. City People The constant buzz of the city or the tranquility of the country? There has always been the debate over country life and city life. The question is, which is better? I am trying to create a new perspective. Country people have advantages over city people and city people have advantages over country people. It boils down to three things, environment, opportunities, and values. The most prevalent difference between country life and city life is the environment. This can

Census data from the last 2 Censuses reveal population migration patterns through changes in Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSAs) populations. The data shows that certain metropolitan areas are growing while others are declining. Many Southern cities and Western cities are rapidly rising in population as economic industries settle and family-friendly conditions allow innovation and education to thrive. One strong example of this is the Raleigh-Cary MSA, in North Carolina, which has experienced rapid

Growing up in a very little town in Illinois was a lot different than growing up in Houston, Texas. When I was in the fourth grade I found many things to have changed about my surroundings, I currently lived in a place where, the people thought and acted differently. I know now reading about it and understanding more that some of those changes were for the good and some were not. Small town living has its advantages such as, very close friendships, close approximately to may things, and friendly

Cities are the heart of America. They are where people live, work, and play. Cities are where government is closest to the people and where real change is happening. To secure the ongoing prosperity and wellbeing of communities, we must assure that cities meet the needs of current and future generations by fixing the problems within the city. The basis of a sustainable future must also ensure that economic growth can be sustained and increased without compromising the natural environment’s quality