Slab City

stigma of negativity lead to the boy’s adaptation of altered behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs (Rios, 2011). Lost in a Decaying Community Comparatively, the inner-city demographics hindered the boy’s chances of social mobility and personal growth along with the social brutality. A city is like a machine in the sense that every part of the city works together to bring

why I was here, but as I felt a sudden descent , my eyes veered toward to the tiny window as realization engulfs me; I know where I am. I witnessed the scattered city lights along a vast flat piece of land, where the energy beneath me twirled, I knew, I was home. Well, not literally home, but rather my spiritual home, which are the cities of Zapopan and Guadalajara in my beloved country of Mexico. I walked into the airport and I felt the heat surrounding me, the people staring and my bright green

interests of society at the time. Furthermore, it impacted the city life, in economic, social and political ways. Exploring and comparing fine art between these two cities will provide a glimpse into these societies. Venice in the late Renaissance period was one of the most peaceful and tolerant societies within Europe. The city itself was not known for its political fervour, but for their thriving fine arts. The uniqueness of the city coupled with the history of family guilds allowed for fine arts

with those issues, “green cities” has been given as a great solution. Green city is a program of building smart constructions and technologies that are friendly with the environment, and establishing the smart growth policies to resolve the economic, social, and as well as environmental issues in the city. There are some opinions claimed that green cities should not be developed due to the high cost and negative environmental effects. Despite those opposing opinions, green city would still be an effective

The single greatest landuse is farming however the fundamental physical highlights deciding a wide range of landuse are the conduits and standing water bodies. Bangladesh is one of the world's biggest wetland zones, and amid the stormy season around 66% of the nation can be delegated wetlands as characterized in the Ramsar Convention. Waterways cover a region of roughly 7,700 sq km in the wet season; this incorporates streams of all sizes, with the exception of little regular khals. One of the issues

several advantages and disadvantages of citizenship. An advantage was that citizens had the right to seek specific jobs; a disadvantage was that some legal requirements were forgotten about. A city

Humans have a very influential relationship with waterfowl, theres two sides to it. On one side humans have completely changed waterfowls natural migrating path. With the modern expansion of cities, certain species have adapted and now use them as refuges, such as the Canada goose. Through climate change humans have disrupted waterfowls natural patterns of migration, and most species are un-able to adapt quickly enough to the rapidly changing temperatures. The other side of humans’ relationship with

shapes of cities. He argued that urbanism cannot be simply understood by measuring population of cities. Rather, it must be understood as a form of social existence. Wirth states that cities are the “initiating and controlling centre of economic, political and cultural life that has drawn the most remote communities of the world into its orbit and woven diverse areas, people and activities into a cosmos.” (Wirth, 1938, p.342). Although Wirth recognised that in the density of social life in cities led to

As we have discussed in the previous part, the Hukuo system worked as a door guard in the command economy. However, the world changes everyday. We should look at both goods and harms of Hukou approach in order to evaluate the effectiveness of Hukou system in todays’ world. Although it brought benefit to the state, it also becomes a giant stumbling block for China. In this part, analysis will be elaborated based on two aspects: positive and negative effects. Regarding to Wang, the major functions

From meeting with my conversation partner, I learned that the social norms to me are not the social norms to everyone. I learned a little bit about where Elena is from and what it’s like there. She is from Ipoh, Malaysia which is one of the biggest cities in the country. She said that she lives about 15 minutes from down town Ipoh, so she lives in a more urban area. She explained what the houses were like in her country. In the urban areas, the houses are made mostly of brick and in the more rural