On July 18, 2013, Detroit filed for a historic Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the largest city in America to ever do so. Once a very prosperous city, Detroit has seen a material decline in its’ population, from about 1.8 million in 1950 to about 700,000 residents today, nearly 20% of whom are unemployed. This huge decline can be attributed to not only a decline in manufacturing jobs and the automobile industry, but also Detroit’s public safety woes. Coupled with a decreasing tax base and an increasing debt
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Denton County is experiencing rapid economic development and population growth due to the close proximity of airports and many large and convenient transportation paths which link the Town of Cross Roads with an abundance of employment locations in cities such as Dallas, Frisco, Denton, and McKinney. DFW has experienced a large increase in population size in the past 50 years or so. There have been several economic pressures such as a rise in the number of foreclosures and diminishing credit. DFW is
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Why are rural and remote locations associated with health inequalities which continue to persist for particular social groups? Health services are a common activity that is conducted to every individual in the world. This ranges from medical examinations and treatment form various illness encountered by various individuals. However, this is not the case to every party in the world. Some regions in some countries suffer from inadequate health services provision. This brings the element of inequality
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aftermath of a zombie apocalypse has left the city of Houston, Texas, completely devastated. The destruction has left Houston’s city and citizens in ruins. Few made it through the zombie attack, and now the city stands in an unstable and deteriorated state. With more than half the population already wiped out by the apocalypse, forming a secure and sustainable way of producing food for the community must be achieved by the city’s government. As my cities planner, I must decide on a sustainable and
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Speech 10/8/12 Loss of Farmland I. Introduction A. According to the American Farmland Trust between 2002 and 2007, 4,080,300 acres of farmland were lost and converted to development. To put that into perspective, that’s an area almost the size of Massachusetts. Currently our farmland loss is at an astonishing 1 acre + a minute. Now you might not think that this affects you, but you are wrong. B. I want you to think about things that you do every day. Well I know that
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the i-cities block International cities Creating value and competitiveness for international cities NYC case ICT and connectivity Greta Nasi Bocconi University p. 2 An urban world Globalization and the knowledge economy have repositioned cities as drivers of national economies 2025: 75% of the world population will live in cities 2025: 17 of the world’s 25 largest cities will be in coastal regions in Asia 1925:25% of the world population will live in cities Greta
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The Shareable Future of Cities Alex Steffen Climate change is already a heavy topic, and it’s getting heavier because we’re understanding that we need to do more than we are. We’re understanding, in fact, that those of us who live in the developed world need to be really pushing towards eliminating our emissions. That’s, to put it mildly, not what’s on the table[1] now. And it tends to feel a little overwhelming when we look at what is there in reality today and the magnitude[2] of the problem
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Oaks Hudson Oaks is a small suburban city in Parker County, Texas. It is located 23 miles west of Fort Worth and according to the 2011 Census is home to 1677 residents. “The City of Hudson Oaks was incorporated in 1978 by a group of citizens who shared a desire to come together in creating a community that could create its own destiny rather than having it shaped by the taxing entities in the surrounding area” (Deen, n.d., para. 2). Since that time the City of Hudson Oaks has become a vibrant leader
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to narrow down rural-urban disparities. The rural-urban disparities is found across the World, as is indicated with the fact that Cities take up less than two percent of the Earth’s land surface, but are home to almost half of the world’s population and utilize seventy-five percent of the Earth’s resources. In 1998 47 percent of the world’s population lived in cities as opposed to 29 percent in 1950. Globalization is leading to increased urbanization. According to the World Bank, urban areas in developing
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Delivering to Future Cities - Mega Trends Driving Urban Logistics Over the past two decades delivering goods into the cities has become a challenge with cities getting overly congested and traffic jams resulting in expensive logistics bottlenecks. In fact, studies show that the cost of congestion now in terms of time wasted in traffic and fuel consumption is off the roof, almost 200% more than what it was in the 1980s. And congestion is only a part of the urban delivery problem. Pollution, lack
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