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    part of these. The Ecology of Fear, by Mike Davis, claims that the urbanization of Los Angeles has led to fear of the natural environment. As a result, an “apocalyptic” society was made and is not able to interact with its natural environment. The city of Los Angeles was developed in harm’s way. “Market driven urbanization transgressed environmental common sense” (pg.9). Categorized hazardous areas, such as a floodplains and wildfire prone regions, were developed into suburban areas and industrial

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    Happy Buns restaurant was first established in 1864 in Delaware and Ohio. Since then though it underwent a lot of challenges it still managed to stand against other competitive restaurant to be the best selling restaurant of buns and other baked products. Due to good performance in Delaware there emerged need to expand profits through growth and setting up of branches elsewhere in Columbus, Ohio. Considering that it had already established itself better in Ohio, then this other restaurant would be

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    INTRODUCTION Everyone is potentially vulnerable at some point over the extent of one’s lifetime. More specifically, everyone is potentially at risk of poor physical, psychological, or social health. The word vulnerable is defined by the Merrian-Webster’s Dictionary as “capable of being physically wounded” or “open to attack or damage”. Commonly, the word vulnerability indicates one’s susceptibility to health problems, harm or neglect. Some however, maybe more or less susceptible or at risk of poor

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    Assadullah Alikhil 27957 Eng-110 City Life versus Country Life Whether city is better than the countryside or visa-versa is an argumentative question. It depends upon the life situation of people whether they want to live and relax in a calm place, or they want to be among a big society. Generally, elders prefer country life while youths prefer to live in cities. Elders want a comfortable and simple life, whereas, youths want a professional life. Some similarities that are shared between them are

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    social groupings and land uses. As the city grows each zone must spread and move outward, encroaching onto the next one in the process known as invasion and successions (Park, 1989). The main feature of this model is to show the positive relationship between the central business district (CBD) and the socio-economic status of the households. However, the main aim of this model was to describe residential structures and to show how they are organised in the city. Burgess’ work is much based on Alonso’s

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    Key Roles Of Nagpur

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    Nagpur is seen as one of the rapidly developing central India’s metro city and also ranks third in the list of the urban centres in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune. Nagpur enjoys the privilege of being termed as the richest, greenest and city with latent potential. Nagpur is an important urban centre in the Vidarbha region. It is the administrative capital of the district. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is the only corporation in the district with a jurisdictional area of about

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    A STUDY OF MIGRATION IN MAHARASHTRA (2007-2008) “ If you don’t have migration you wouldn’t be able to fill important jobs to keep the economy going” (McKinley, n.d.)1 Introduction Human Migration is defined as the movement of people from one place to another in the quest for a better life.The movement could be very well across the borders of a country or within a country. It is not a new concept and has occurred throughout the human history, the first human movement being from their origins in

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    arrangement in the city like squares, streets, monuments etc. And architectural works and buildings also can identify as members of the place identification (Birol, 2007). Sense of place can be defined as the experience of place is fundamentally unique to each of us (T. Phil, T. Susan (2003). And Sense of place results from our experience, our past and present

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    makes it different from the urban growth (S. Habibi, 2011). Urban sprawl is the major issue of the cities all over the world. It is a universal problem faced by both developed and developing countries. Due to urban sprawl cities expand beyond their city boundary, which becomes major threat to sustainability and quality of life (Kaur, 2008). There are many causes, which contribute in the expansion of the city beyond its boundary, i.e. population growth, urbanization, rising incomes, single use zoning,

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    better to grow up in a small town. Other people believe it’s better to grow up in a large city. I believe growing up in a large city exceeds being raised in a small town for numerous reasons. One reason is that the large city provides education that is essential to obtain an occupation. On the contrary, a rural town is unable to provide schooling of quality as high as the great city. Another reason is that the city is able to comfort its citizens with its countless essential services and amenities. Whereas

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