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    Harwich Case Study

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    5. Harvard Within this rural community, residents will find a small population and green, open spaces. Located only 25 miles to the northwest of Boston, this community is a part of Worcester County. It began as a farming community, but is now known for its affluent population and top school system. Because of the safe environment, bucolic streets and good schools, home prices are rapidly rising in the area. In just the last year, real estate prices advanced by $72,750. Currently, home buyers can

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    The City of Wilmington, North Carolina, is a local government representing over 110,00 members of New Haven County. According to the city’s mission statement; the City of Wilmington will provide quality services that enhance the safety, livability and prosperity to their community. Furthermore, any type of policies or projects that the city agrees to do must abide with the core principles of the mission statement. Examining the general strategic plan and the organizational structure, are two examples

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    and can become an eyesore in a community. This probably causes the NIMBY-ism around water basins, no matter how beneficial they may be. Noise is a very prevalent issue in Lancaster, due to the amount of aeronautical activity conducted on EAFB. The City has rezoned the flight area in order to decrease the amount of overhead flights in the urbanized areas. This plan is mimicked in the Air Installation Land Use Compatibility portion.

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    A crisis is a period of problems in economic, social, political and environmental crises that affects people, cities and governments. Detroit city has been faced urban crisis, and it became a shrinking city which loses a population and economic activity. It was one of the wealthy cities produced auto industry, but is now the largest city in American history faced bankruptcy ( ). Detroit had a huge migration problem after bankruptcy which led to vacant properties

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    airborne disease, and improved city planning. As Europe shifts from the Industrial Revolution to urbanization, we see how this later launches European countries towards the formation of modern cities. As the cities being formed were poorly planned and citizens were divided among many different subclasses, the people who lived in these places not only endured dreadful living conditions, but became

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    prosperity of both localities. James City County has established a greater focus on economic growth as well as the modernization of government services like workforce development and educational systems (James City County, 2015). New Orleans has a stronger goal of addressing climate change and potential environmental issues that the City will eventually have to tackle. Additionally, the differing demographics must be considered among the two localities, with James City County having a higher income population

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    . The automobile brought pop to the valley, aviation as well as farming attracted people for work, while the white flat lands drew city dwellers to the “wide-open spaces” and life in the country (Height 99). And with this large increase of people, cities began to grow, city ordinances protected the LA portion of the Valley from almost all types of industrial development, but did little to limit subdivision schemes concerned with cutting up land into smaller parcels which owners would then develop

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    in particular specific demographic groups, cities need to go where the people are and these places may be unusual locations where public administration rarely go. As an example, ENACE for the energy commitment organized public events to reach the target audience. Their target audience consists of building professionals with specific training in energy efficiency and savings: architects and industrial engineers. Apart from the public events, there were open online databases, availability to attend related

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    Development in any city is a good idea that is sometimes handled in a bad way. This often-quick development leads to gentrification. Living in the Bay Area residents notice the changes in the city both large and small ways. Changes such as childhood businesses closing or losing the recognition of a place they have grown up living in. San Francisco, in particular, has become at risk to gentrification in different districts causing lower income or even middle-class residents to struggle to pay rising

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    arrangement in the city like squares, streets, monuments etc. And architectural works and buildings also can identify as members of the place identification (Birol, 2007). Sense of place can be defined as the experience of place is fundamentally unique to each of us (T. Phil, T. Susan (2003). And Sense of place results from our experience, our past and present

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