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Affordable Housing San Diego
1,899 wordsThe population of California is expected to increase by more than 15 million people by the year 2020. This is not a new startling fact. It has been said many times before, in many different ways. This number is equivalent to the present population of Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado combined. Carol Whiteside focuses on how the population boom will affect California's cities. She also looks at how the cities will prepare for such growth, with local resources that are already s...
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Urban Sprawl Low Density
1,308 wordsThe urban sprawl that has characterized American growth patterns for the past 45 years has been held responsible for a host of problems, including: profligate energy use (Levinson and Strate, 1981 and Newman and Kenworthy, 1989); rising municipal infrastructure costs (Neilson Associates, 1987; Real Estate Research Corporation, 1974; and Frank, 1989); the loss of agricultural and wetlands (OTA, 1984 and Krause and Hare, 1975); the loss of community values (Newman and Kenworthy, 1989 and Freedman,...
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Urban Sprawl Raw Materials
1,254 wordsUrban Sprawl is a problem that will have severe consequences for all life if left unrestricted. The unrestricted development of the United States and the world is rapidly contributing to the degradation of our ecosystem. Moreover, if over development continues there will be massive human suffering. Air and water quality are in jeopardy and topsoil is being lost at an alarming rate. If something isn't done soon to curtail rampant development there may be no way to prevent its destructive conseque...
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Urban Sprawl Cambridge Ma
1,306 words... ous legal devices including zoning, deed restrictions, and racially restrictive covenants to impose and increase racial residential segregation. Furthermore, real estate agents, appraisers, brokers and mortgage bankers ensured the concentration of poor minorities by refusing them access to property or loans. Many of these exclusionary practices persist today in the suburbs leading to a concentration of poor minorities in the inner city. Second, Suburbanites have an interest in decreasing the...
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Whore Giggle ' Ratz Case
1,083 wordsThis is for the Net. Enjoy. - Red Dragon Neuromancer by William Gibson Dedication: for Deb who made it possible with love PART ONE CHIBA CITY BLUES 1 The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. 'It's not like I'm using, ' Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. 'It's like my body's developed this massive drug defi- ciency. ' It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional exp...
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Gray Eyes Night City Wage
1,086 words... unless random impacts required to create a surface like that. The Jarre was decorated in a dated, nameless style from the previous century, an uneasy blend of Japanese traditional and pale Milanese plas- tics, but everything seemed to wear a subtle film, as though the bad nerves of a million customers had somehow attacked the mirrors and the once glossy plastics, leaving each surface fogged with something that could never be wiped away. 'Hey. Case, good buddy... ' He looked up, met gray eyes...
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Clean Air Act Hillary Rodham
1,679 words... and a decline in biodiversity (Watson Institute for International Studies). Another view classifies environmental problems into land degradation that includes deforestation and desertification; and environmental pollution and degradation that includes chemical, solid waste, water and radiation pollution, as well as air pollution within which acid rain and global warming are included (Long). In recent times, the Clear Skies Policy has been claimed by its advocates to have the capacity to reac...
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Supply And Demand Quality Of Life
1,605 wordsUrban Sprawl Urban sprawl is the spread of urban congestion into adjoining suburbs and rural sections. (Brecher 34) Urban sprawl has become an issue for concern in the country since 1920. There was a rapid rate of sub urbanization between the years 1920 and 1950. Then by the seventies and eighties, urban sprawl has been curbed to moderate suburbanization. Urban sprawl has characterized American growth patterns for the past eighty years. There has been much controversy surrounding this hot topic....
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Environmental Science Issue On Urban Sprawl
1,684 wordsENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: ISSUE ON URBAN SPRAWL Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl has been defined as the rapid and expansive growth of a greater metropolitan area and is used to describe urban growth. This paper looks into this issue and examines three implications that has to do with urban migration pointing to the deterioration of the quality of life in the developing world in general and in urban areas in particular as well as the environmental problems it can lead to. Three solution approaches s...
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Square Mile Job Growth
1,034 wordsFrom homeowners worried about crime and property values om Frog town to Burnsville commuters whose drive on Interstate 35 W gets slower each year, no one is immune to sprawls effects. It sets Bloomington against Lakeville in competition for new industry and pits Brookdales comedown against Maple Groves hope to attract a new regional mall. It makes highways more crowded and mass transit less viable. It requires more roads and sewers and higher taxes to pay for them. It has economic effects as wel...
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Dream Of Owning Environmentally Friendly
1,408 wordsNot until the spread of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century, has man possessed the ability to adversely alter, on a global scale, the geologic and climatic cycles that have existed for millennia. Planet earth, which man calls home, is approximately 5 billion years old. The science of paleontology tells us that man is a relative new comer to the planet. Modern man did not arrive on the scene until approximately 10, 000 to 15, 000 years ago. Developments in hunting, agricultur...
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Urban Sprawl High Street
1,115 wordsThere are a number of pressing urban and rural issues in Britain including inner city problems, urban sprawl and green belt threats. In this essay I will be looking at examples of these and talking about the effects on the enviroment and the population. Some solutions to these problems will also be argued. These days it seems like shoppers are deserting their local city centre for shopping as it is thought that many fear crime and feel threatened by beggars on the street. Researchers say that 3 ...
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