Urban legends

In Search of Respect is an ethnography written by Philippe Bourgois that explores the street culture of drugs in El Barrio, New York. After spending three years actively observing and participating in street life, Bourgois wrote about his own experiences in the crack house and the stories of his primary subjects. The book follows the story of Ray, the man who owned the crack house where Bourgois studied. Caesar, a crack seller and his manager Primo, who Bourgois became good friends with. Also, he

places that they had moved to. One moved to Washington D.C., an urban area, and the other moved to Texas, in a suburban area. This got me thinking about where I would want to live when I’m older. I live in a suburban area, so I have to drive everywhere I want to go, and since I can’t drive my parents need to drive me everywhere. Which doesn't usually work for them, so living in an urban setting would be great for me. In my opinion, urban settings are the best to live in, because of the entertainment

to support all ten billion of these people, actions need to be taken to ensure everyone will be fed. Some techniques to ensure food security include producing and supporting the production of genetically modified foods, implicating the practice of urban farming and aquaculture, better management of wasted foods and educating the general population on food waste. One solution to help feed the global population is implementing the production of genetically modified foods. A genetically modified food

sustainable future must also ensure that economic growth can be sustained and increased without compromising the natural environment’s quality of life. I do believe that mega-urbanity affects humanity as well as the development of future and present urban life. Before starting an analysis of the metropolis, it is important to define the term “city”. Growing up I lived in a rural area but I used to take trips to the nearest city which was in Wichita, Ks. It was filled with thousands of people and it

segregating spaces according to function and the connecting them through a couple of bridges plonked here and there. So, these towns only wear the veil of a New Urbanist town whereas it is actually following the hundred-and-fifty-year old prototype of an urban

First and Last Name Professor Name Class Title Date Turned In Negative Effects of Run-down Buildings on the Community All across the US, cities are constantly evolving by tearing down outdated buildings and erecting new structures in their places that serve to grow and improve the community as a whole. However, when a city either does not have the funds or the communal support to tear down a run-down building, this evolutionary process is halted. In nature, organisms must adapt to keep up with their

4. During the introduction of the characters and setting of the story, the author characterized the old woman by expressing in his own words, “She is small and sprightly, like a bantam hen; but, due to a long youthful illness, her shoulders are pitifully hunched” (Capote 338). As I read this description, I can understand that the woman is elderly and delicate because of her long-time illness, but throughout the story, I can see that her appearance does not reflect her temperament at all. She has

Africa is a rapidly urbanizing continent, experiencing tremendous growth and transformation with an increasing concentration of cities. Today, it boasts a greater number of urban dwellers than Europe, Australia, North or South America. However, situations were not always so promising. The arrival of imperialism and the start of colonial rule in the 19th century served to exploit the growth of physical, economic, and human resources of a flourishing Africa to benefit European powers. By setting severe

that are happing in urban and suburban areas. Alan Ehrenhalt the former editor of Governing Magazine leads us to acknowledge that there is a shift in urban and suburban areas. This revelation comes as the poorer, diverse, city dwellers opt for the cookie cutter, shanty towns at the periphery of American cities known as the suburbs. In similar fashion the suburbanites, whom are socioeconomic advantaged, are looking to migrate into the concrete jungles, of America, to live an urban lifestyle. Also, there

this steady population number, urban environments has done this by changing its breeding requirements to fit the mortality rates that occur in urban areas. The urban fox, as written previously in this document, says, “To make up for such a high rate of mortality, the foxes have larger litters (an average of seven or more cubs compared with an average of less than five in town foxes), and all the vixens will breed, whereas each year about 25% of the vixens in urban areas will not,” (Baker, P and