Transition Towns

4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Knowing about land use/land cover has become important to overcome the problem of biogeochemical cycles, loss of productive ecosystems, biodiversity, deterioration of environmental quality, loss of agricultural lands, destruction of wetlands, and loss of fish and wildlife habitat. The main reason behind the LU/LC changes includes rapid population growth, rural-to-urban migration, reclassification of rural areas as urban areas, lack of valuation of ecological services, poverty

(100%) | 3.26 (100%) | 7.33 (100%) | 3.67 (100%) | Source: Planning, Environment and Lands Bureau, 1998 Apart from building the public housing units in order to meet the needs of the urban poor, the government carries out urban renewal plans and new town development plans for the sake of coping with the problem of the old and dilapidated buildings. Many inner cities such as Sham Shui Po and Tsuen Wan are facing the problem of urban decay as the buildings are old and not safe for the poor to live in

Fear and Tension in The Whole Towns Sleeping and A Terribly Strange Bed The essay i have written is a comparison of two short stories. One written by Ray Bradbury in 1950's and titled "The Whole Towns Sleeping". The other was written by Wilkie Collins in 1856 and entitled "A Terribly Strange Bed". "The Whole Towns Sleeping" is about a middle-aged spinster called "Lavinia" 37, who goes to the cinema with her friends while a mysterious killer, is at large. She is fully

All the towns people get together on June 27 in the middle of the town square for the drawing of the lottery. The townspeople the lottery is just like any other town gathering like a holiday program, school play, or a dance. Mr. Summers is the person in charge of the lottery; she has to gather the information from all the townspeople about

time. However, some traditions often cause us to not see the rationality despite of the destructive nature it may have. In Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, a sacrifice of one’s life becomes the “jackpot” of an annual event held in a small town. This society’s traditions have caused the people to do away with their rational thoughts and the values of their lives as they have become so stuck in their own cultural beliefs. In the short story, “The Lottery”, Jackson’s use of symbols reveals

francs. Knowing that the stranger has a whole book of cheques, Foiral and his friends immediately feel jealous of the outsider: he has something that they want. A stranger -- a madman -- who has more than any member of the community, has invaded their town. Because he has so much and they so little, the villagers feel that it is their right to take the stranger's magic cheques . . . even if, in the process, they must take his life as well. Ironically, tragically, their righteous ambition leads to their

What is an urban revolution? Why is it important for cities to have one? What are that factors that cause these revolutions? In the articles The Urban Revolution by V.Gordon Childe, The Right to The City by David Harvey and lastly, What Type of Public Transit for What Type of Public? by Kafui A. Attoh, displays the different ways the residents in a city react to the social inequality and human rights. The Urban Revolution, written by V. Gordon Childe, is an intricate article that attempts to figure

goods. These two urban communities therefore became inequitable by definition of environment, while the downtown space was marked exclusively with drug trafficking and most families depended of this social practice to earn a living, the other side of town was marked with territorial discrepancies involving forceful resource extraction either by kidnappings, payment of “narco tax” to get “protection” and extortion. This situation in Mexico downtown indicated that the build environment played a greater

living in rural areas, but a large number of them are rushing into urban areas to get a job every year. People living in the countryside are anxious to begin their urban life, meanwhile people in cities prefer to live a peaceful life far away from town. As for me, in China, living in the city is much better than living in the countryside in that citizens would surely live a more convenient life, have more choices in every aspect of life and would also achieve a sense of accomplishment in their enriching

“The Lottery” a short story by Shirley Jackson, features a small town during the time of their lottery. The lottery is an annual event, organized by Mr. Summers. It is a highly important time, as the whole town comes to the town square on the day of the lottery. The guidelines are quite simple: everyone takes a slip of paper out of the symbolic black box, and the slip of paper with the black mark carved on it, is the “lucky winner”. But their definition of the lottery is different一usually, a