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    The Talk Of Gun Violence

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    begins the article with "CHICAGO — In a city wrestling with a rise in gun violence and turmoil in its police department, August seemed like the longest month." With this opening statement, she pulls the audience in with the ultimate question of "Why?" It entices the reader to go down further in the article to figure out what the turmoil is and why Chicago is in a time of desperation. As a reader myself I instantly began to wonder what was happening within the city. Fellow Americans need to understand

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    relatively new. The intent of this study emphasises in ruralisation of current urban cities by creating an environment that would allow the residents to benefit from its geographical and urban function stressing the creation of one system. Cities in the US and around the world have developed significantly that much of the land has transformed into Metro areas. In addition to 3 million people or greater living in these cities, people have exhausted their options and had no alternative but to rely on high-rise

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    Order Of The Public Realm

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    1 Order In The Public Realm Isaiah Navies Plan 749 Urban Planning, Exam 1, Kansas City Design Center September 30, 2016 2 Without order in the public realm the world we live in would be a very unorganized environment. When it comes to order within the public realm we have to thank planning, zoning, transects, and urbanism theories, because these strategies shape our environment as to what it is today. Authors such as Leon Krier, Emily Talen, Cliff Ellis, and Douglas Kelbaugh are theorist who have

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    This report is meant to capture the ever-changing Chinese consumer market. It includes demographic and economic information which McKinsey compiled by conducting Surveys in China, interviewing a total of more than 60,000 people in upward of 60 cities. As well as, information regarding rising incomes, consumer trends, and the aging population. These consumer trends are expected to continue into the year 2020. Common features of China 's changing demographics include rapid industrialization, rising

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    Many people are unaware of the migration trend happening in Tennessee in which more and more people are leaving smaller, rural communities, and seeking to live in a larger, urban city. Even fewer individuals are aware of the harmful effects this has brought upon rural areas along with the effects that will continue to happen. The purpose of this recommendation memo is to educate more members of society on the problems this mass movement will cause, and show the research that has gone into this

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    induce earthquakes on March 28, 2015 (MCGRATH). In addition, United States Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that the hydraulic fracturing relates to the water pollution (Banerjee). In Texas, if a city over 5000 populations can be became to a home rule city, which give the city government more freedom and flexibility(Collier). Since the hydraulic fracturing

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    's self " can clash under particular conditions such as the environment and yet experienced in various manners. I first started working for the City of Irvine right after I graduated College 2014. Having the opportunity to work for a city such as Irvine right after college, I felt so honored and over joyed. Excited to have a job, working for a beautiful city and enjoying every second of every day and the new challenges and experiences. This employment opportunity allowed me to be paid above the minimum

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    FOG COMPUTING IN SMART CITY Arti Agrahari Abstract: This paper represents a novel idea on how Fog computing can be used to manage the immense data generated in smart city. Fog computing can also be called as edge computing, is a distributed computing infrastructure in nature, for smart devices like mobile phones the application services should be maintained near the end user side but the services are handled at remote data server i.e. in cloud. Our aim is to reduce the amount of storage required

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    faster in many cities throughout America. Residents of poor urban areas face many sets of challenges that our community developers are not addressing that can alleviate issues within urban communities. If we can come together to fight against poverty, we can call for revitalization, we need many more new strategies to tackle problems that aren’t contained. Many authors address poverty within suburban communities as well; with discussions of suburbanization- that poverty is moving from cities to suburban

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    models to identify highly risk prone areas and help the city government to proactively resolve them. With the help of WindyGrid the city officials have been able to address a variety of issues such as : 1.  Preventative Rodent Baiting- The Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) in partnership with Event and Pattern Detection Laboratory (EPD Lab) at Carnegie Mellon University developed a forecasting model enabling the city officials to combat rodents outbreak in Chicago. This was

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