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    Public open space (POS) plays a significant role in maintaining public health. It has been positively connected with the improvement of residents’ physical health due to the opportunities provided for physical activities, which reduce the risk of a wide range of common disease that threaten people’s life. With a population of 4 million, Jeddah is Saudi Arabia’s second largest city. Due to its rapid population growth, alarming public health issues and natural disaster such as flooding, public open

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    authority to appoint a director of ADWR. It is in his duties of service to advance and pursue new and revised policies and programs using a variety of tools and resources, he also releases statements on new policy concerning the issue and informs the public of changes. The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) & Director: The Central Arizona Project (CAP): Groundwater Replenishment Authority (Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD)): Arizona Water Banking Authority (ABWA):

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    estimated value of property along the Miami-Dade’s coastline is more than $14.7 billions,without consideration of infrastructure.According to the data from Climate Central analysis(the data based on from over ten federal agencies),the chart below shows the land below 3 feet in Miami is 1441 acres,the population is 19913 and property value is 37.05 billions. At 6 feet,110993 people(27.8% of total population of Miami) and $14,972 million are vulnerable in total. Except the direct damage from ocean,there are

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    METHODOLGY AND MODELS FOR RESIDENTIAL SELF SELECTION: IMPACT ON TRAVEL BEHAVIOR Introduction: Self-selection in this context refers to “the tendency of people to choose locations based on their travel abilities, needs and preferences” (Litman, 2005 p. 6). Sources for Residential selection are: attitudes and social demographic traits. With residential to the latter, an example of self-selection is that low-income and zero-vehicle households may choose to live in neighborhoods with ample transit

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    genocide of Native Americans is an equally detrimental and influential event. The Bureau of American Ethnology estimates the total Native land loss to be somewhere near 1.5 billion acres, and the group currently makes up just over 1 percent of the nation's population. As a consolation prize for the theft of their land, the United States government designated multi acre land plots as reservations to be managed by tribes. These

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    How A Public Option?

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    How about a public option? Hello all human beings of all the gender identities upon the spectrum or not and welcome back to my Youtube channel, Sara-ndepity. Thank you for the continuous support and subscribing! And for those who happened to stumble here, feel free to like, comment, and subscribe. For today’s topic, I am going talk about a more serious topic compared to the usual posts and that’s the issue of healthcare and accessibility. I bet you guys are wondering why I am talking about this

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    death penalty field, such as bombing and arson. In 1972, at the time of Supreme Court’s Furman, the majority of public tends to agree with the death penalty. The major reason for support of the death penalty was the serious violent offenders need to be executed in the interest of public safety. However, according to a Gallup poll, supporter for the death penalty dropped from 76 to 53, public started to against the death penalty. Since then, the world has the trend toward of abolishing the death penalty

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    SUPPORT SYSTEM IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES It is a widely accepted fact that innovation creates new industries which drives the business cycle and provides the basis for sustained economic growth and prosperity of an economy (Schumpeter, 1961). Innovation is an evolutionary, systematic process which results from various associational interactions among a number of actors in a given region (Cooke & Morgan, 2000). Under the influence of theories for fiscal decentralization, regional innovation systems and

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    passenger kilometers (2 trillion passenger miles) by car, truck, bus, and public transit, and 9.8 billion passenger kilometers (6.1 billion passenger miles) on Amtrak. As populations have grown the traditional systems have

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    → Melbourne city grid , the base of Melbourne transport system In 1837, Melbourne’s city grid, The Hoddle Grid was laid out and named after its designer, Robert Hoddle, a surveyor sent from Sydney. It is a layout that has persisted to this day and is the basis of the transport system in Melbourne. The design of the grid was defined by the geography of the area, based on a cross-thatch pattern which runs parallel to the Yarra River. It is 1.6km long and 0.8km wide. During the planning process

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