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    Emergent public space: Sustaining Chicano culture in North Denver was written by Sig Langegger and was published in 2013. In the article, the author uses Troy Chavez memorial peace garden as to answer his primary questions of how open spaces remain its purpose. Also to show how vacant private lands could become a meaningful public space for a community by including the aspects of its urban renewal, its neighborhood decay, and its structural mechanisms that holds the demographics in place. 
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    Poverty In Atlanta

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    Concentrated disadvantage is characterized as an indicator depicting the poverty in a specific area or region. I chose the city of Atlanta because I have lived near Atlanta my whole life. I occasionally traveled to Atlanta to watch the Hawks play basketball. On the way home from the games, I would notice the numbers of people that stood on the side of the streets sleeping or asking for money. I never understood the whole concept of why such things happened in this part of town. At no time did

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    Most of us can't go one second without our phones, but Amber Christopher would like to go back to the cave man times to see what they did and how they did it. Born at Saint Vincent Hospital, she is full of energy. Her best friend Olivia D'Antonia helps her energy come out and some craziness too. That's why amber loves her as a friend. Among all of the 50 states Oregon is her favorite because she gets to visit her step dad. With drawing, sculpting, and dancing as her favorite hobbies because each

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    transformational politics.” By the account of Harvey, Mitchell and Purcell, Lefebvre’s view about the “right to the city” can also be interpreted as the “right to urban life” or the right to inhabit and can be talked over as a anticipated but not yet established claim to centrality, place, equality, public space, participation, and citizenship. We should not limit the meaning of the right to the city

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    As a result of urbanization and population growth, how urban areas and planned and orientated towards climate change adaptation and mitigation is becoming more important. As urban areas accommodate more and more people in increasingly higher densities, so too will the carbon emission of the urban area be increased. There should, therefore, be a balanced between carbon emissions and carbon sequestration within urban environments. Often public open spaces and road reserves serve to be nothing more

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    systems, grazing, and wilderness sections. Von Thunen’s model uses relative costs. Burgess’s model, or otherwise known as concentric zone model, is based on urban land settings and visually explains the growth patterns in a metropolitan space. As a city develops and grows, new rings are added onto the center circle (loop) and the old rings change in characteristics. When looking at the model, note the central business district/loop and the peak land value intersection. B. Von Thunen model makes the

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    The image of the outside of this houses may not be pleasant to us but the people there decided to live in them. They have had the opportunity to change the appearance of this depressing houses but they by choice decide to live this way. To them there is beauty in their houses even if there is none to others. The towns from Pittsburgh to Greensburg have a horrible hellish appearance to the author. The author describes the town to have no beauty in it. She says that to people who pass by that town

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    little. Theoretical perspective that was evident in this was the conflict theory. The slum of Dharavi is located right outside the thriving city of Mumbai, and this posses a problem. The city of Mumbai is home to many wealthy people, and thriving businesses. These factors contribute to a high value on the city's real estate. Therefore, much of the property in the city has been bought and developed on. This leads to the wealthy, one group involved

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    Small Country Community

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    How it feels living in a small, country community in Oklahoma. Living in a small, country community, life is simpler, than it is living in a bigger, nosier town. In my small, country community there are about seven-hundred friendly, farming-type people living here. Life here in this small community is very peaceful and quiet, compared to the bigger, more populated towns close by. Living in a small, country community has many advantages. On of the many advantages living in a small, country community

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    Dharavi Stereotypes

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    Dharavi produces one million dollars in goods per day. Considering what a small area this tiny piece of Mumbai, this is an impressive fact. This is a fact that resonated with me yet astounded me because of my own preconceived stereotypes of a slum. Thinking of a slum I immediately assuming this also meant this was a community with a lack of jobs, unemployable people, and lazy unwilling individuals. I couldn’t have been proven more wrong. As shown in the film, Dharavi is a tiny one square mile packed

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