Tulsa Metropolitan Area

second grade when his family moved to California to follow the fruit harvest. In California I just went from one school after another out there (said Thomas Lester Pugh). The Pugh family moved back to Oklahoma to Glenpool, about 15 miles south of Tulsa, when Thomas was in the fifth grade and that’s where they settled down and stayed. In high school Thomas was pretty popular he was voted the best athlete, class vice president, “biggest wolf”, and “best dancer”. During his years of high school he

I acquired my service learning hours by participating in a group that volunteered at Tulsa County Youth Services. My group encountered many difficulties and challenges before finally securing a project at Tulsa County Youth Services that would allow for us to fulfill our eight-hour requirement for the service-learning project. Initially, we had planned to volunteer at Rogers County Youth Services, but these plans dissipated as we learned that it was extremely difficult to simply set up a meeting

new ideas, new people and found it easy to adapt to whatever surroundings I found in. This was only solidified with two humanitarian deployments to Africa and Eastern Asia before I finally finished my five-year contract and decided to move back to Tulsa, Oklahoma. So, with my social influences varying heavily depending on which chapter of my life I look at it’s hard to pin point where my political preferences stem. It seems the easiest way would be to start with a topic I have a strong view point

while “those high real wages were a sign of urban failure—the painful crime rate and disintegration of urban amenities” (104). According to the data given of American metropolitan areas, Fresno has the lowest real wages at $44,501 while Tulsa has the highest at $70,260. By Glaeser’s argument, Fresno should be the metropolitan area with the greatest amenities. However, Fresno has the lowest median family income and second highest cost of living index. Out of the five cities, Boston is the most cosmopolitan

to what extent are these urban areas sustainable? Megacities, defined by population, have at least 10 million inhabitants. In recent years, megacities in the developing world have grown rapidly with little or no planning. As a result, they face cries of infrastructure, poverty and unemployment. The driving force for the rise of megacities is mass urbanisation between rural – urban areas, as well as rates of natural increase that are higher in urban than rural areas. An example of a megacity is Mexico

African American female adolescence (who live in urban areas) compared to female caucasion female adolescence (who live in suburban areas) have a lot of differences amongst themselves. Among adults and children has increased dramatically in the past 20 years to reach epidemic proportions, and health care costs of excessive weight are estimated at more than $98 billion a year. In a previous study investigating risk factors for cardiovascular disease in a poor, rural county in Tennessee, the authors

Regeneration refers to in the investment of capital in the revival of old and declining urban areas either by improving what is left behind or clearing away and rebuilding. Often it may be accompanied by reimaging to change the dominant perception of an urban area. Such regeneration efforts can be seen in the town of Syracuse in New York. Between 1970s to 1990s, it started to experience urban decline. Economic decline happened as a result of deindustrialisation. As Syracuse was previously the largest

Earth’s population is increasing, and areas which are already home to millions are continuing to expand. As these cities continue to grow, when the population reaches a certain point it is referred to as a megacity, a megacity is a metropolitan area with a total population of 10 million plus. These megacities are so large that they are becoming out of control settlements, cities like Los Angeles and Tokyo are being forced to expand upwards due to having to accommodate for the thriving population

whereas in 2001 this number reached 19%. In the same year two of every three apartments formed part of a condo. In 2001 condominiums accounted for 8% of all real estate in metropolitan cities, while they were only 1% of all real estate in smaller cities or in rural areas. There was a difference between the major metropolitan centers. Almost one fifth of privately owned real estate in Vancouver in 2001 were condominiums, 70% of which were apartments. In Quebec City and Montreal this number was 80%

It is argued that the sustained growth in urban areas has been propelled by the increase in size and prevalence of urban squatter settlements. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (2003a) reports that 78% of the urban population in the lowest income countries resides in squatter settlements (2003a). Simmel (1903) and Wirth (1938) emphasised the oppressive nature of cities, derived from densely populated, diverse and swelling metropolitan cities. In turn, this creates psychological suffering