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    Located at the base of the Wasatch Mountains is the wonderful city of Sandy. Sandy City is one of the more populous areas of Salt Lake City and the 5th largest city in Utah. It is a large, mostly suburban area with a population of about 94,000 people. It extends from I-215 to the north, E 12300 to the south, W 10600 S to the west, and Little Cottonwood Canyon Road to the east. Sandy has 4 quadrants: Alta Canyon, Bell Cayon, Crescent, and Sandy. I live in the Sandy quadrant, which is the 2nd largest

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    LINKAGES OF PERI-URBAN COMMUNITY TO LAGOS MEGACITY: CASE STUDY OF MOWE-IBAFO Names ALABINTEI JOSHUA Matric Number 110503017 Department URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Faculty ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Institution UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS,AKOKA. Supervisor H.O JIMOH PROJECT, 2015 1.1 INTRODUCTION Peri-urban is a term often used in literature texts concerning town planning and urban growth, yet there is a need to properly define the term and

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    Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 12, Number 2—Spring 1998—Pages 139-160 Are Cities Dying? Edward L. Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers, such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler, have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired

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    E SSAYS ON TWENTIETH-C ENTURY H ISTORY In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in

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