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    Living in a Big City

    these broad professional profiles also carry along a huge variety when it comes to employments and vacancies. Modern life developed a wide range for laboring performance, and it’s no coincidence that this modern life is often represented from an urban experience. Universities, research institutes, hospitals, health and cultural centers, and many other fundamental institutions are often settled down within a big city’s inwards. In addition, transportation means play an essential role in big cities

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    Urban Economics

    I. Dualism Poverty/lowincome-difficult to measure, may include social capital, human capital. 1. Spatial mismatch a. Distance from residence to work i. Transportation/commute b. Housing-informal settlers 2. Type of labor c. Inequality of human capital d. Labor mismatching 3. Neighborhood Segregation e. Gated communities vs. maids f. Production of slums(Planet of slums) II. Agglomoration A. Trading cities and Factory cities(specialization/comparative

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    Family in Rural Areas of Brgy. Mat-Y, Miag-Ao, Iloilo

    research conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, there are factors that change and reinforce connections between rural and urban areas. These factors include information technology, improved education, paved roads, and yearning for employment. Each year, ruralites in low- income countries such as the Philippines are going to urban places in exchange of economic security for the households that they have left in rural areas. Recent studies in Bangladesh, Thailand, and the Philippines

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    The Affects of Drainage System in Dhaka City on the Area of Vatara, Notun Bazar, Gulshan, Dhaka-1212

    REPORT ON The Affects Of Drainage System SUBMITTED TO Md. Mashiur Rahman, PhD (Lund) Professor Department of sociology University of Dhaka and Adjunct faculty, Southeast University, Dhaka SUBMITTED BY Prithy Raj Barua ID# 2012010000176 Batch: 30th, Section: “F” Department of BBA

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    Urban Sprawl

    Throughout this article, the main focus is urban sprawl and the non-endearing remedies to fix this growing concern. Three influential forces are the end results of urban sprawl: a growing population, rising incomes, and falling commuting costs. Although these sound positive to societies well being, market failures are distorting their positive social desirability. The allocation of agricultural land converted to urban usage has justified the criticism of urban sprawl by not accounting for the benefits

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    Adminstator

    Concerns To Validate the Nominal Plan (2G and 3G) Currently we are engaged on TEP related activities as survey work for new and swap sites and planning tasks. However we have found the following difficulties to proceed with Addis Ababa nominal plan validation which has a serious impact on new site survey and validation for TSSR and LLD. ethio telecom requested Huawei to use the latest forecasted subscribers from ethio telecom marketing department, which was done based on 10 sub cities

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    Marketing and Strategies

    India. There are numerous demographic trends that are constructive for the growth of organized retail: 1. Rapid income growth : Consumers have greater ability to spend. 2. Increasing Urbanization : Larger urban population which values convenience coupled with higher propensity of the urban consumer to spend. 3.Growing young population : Growth of post liberalization maturing population with the willingness to spend. Youthful population is the prime asset to India as its craving for cinema, gaming

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    Saving Space (Environmental)

    ecosystems of plants and animals that we depend upon for live and sustenance the harder it will be to overcome problems we create in these ecosystems. One approach that is being used in city planning is compact development. Populations often migrate to urban communities in search of employment. To accommodate the influx of people, communities are using compact development. This is the practice of developing housing close to transportation sources, employment, and social services. With compact development

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    Mitigation of at&C Losses

    Massive Aggregate Transmission and Commercial (AT&C) losses have long crippled the financial viability of State Distribution Companies (SDCs). To address this problem a targeted funding mechanism was introduced for the first time in 2003 in the form of the Accelerated Power Development Reforms Programme (APDRP). Its key objectives were to reduce AT&C losses, improve customer satisfaction as well as financial viability of the SDCs, adopt a systems approach and introduce greater transparency. Unfortunately

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    Urban Studies Final

    utilizing the same good for free. Another view would be if a person was required to pay for public goods the goods would have to be produced in ways consumers would recognize the value solely for them. Public goods are known to have greater importance in urban areas and high-density communities. The role I think public goods should play in cities and urbanized areas are to remain free. The tax dollars individuals pay should contribute to the cost associated with these services. There is no feasible way

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