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NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

An Overview of Urbanism in America

the proliferation of entertainment and leisure. Films, plays, restaurants and night clubs are a part of the landscape. After th...

New York Retailer Barneys

eyed a nondescript storefront at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, in the lowbrow Manhattan neighborhood known as Chel...

Phoenix Economic Development

In five pages the business attractiveness of Phoenix, Arizona and how this has contributed to the city's economic development are ...

NYC's Metropolitan Area and Shipment Transporting

In five pages this paper discusses New York City's traffic problems with a solution offered by replacing trucks with ships and tra...

River City, California Corrections Problems

beyond us sometimes. But that ancient bit of memory seems very "right on," as far as corrections goes in California; it is "troub...

The Transformation of Major Central Cities

7 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of major cities. This paper looks at the proce...

Home Town by Tracy Kidder

In five pages this Pulitzer Prize winning text is reviewed in terms of an average American city's sociological complexities. Ther...

Threats Which May Influence Whether The Objectives Of The Healthy People 2020 Program Are Achieved In Calumet

City, Illinois Improving the health of a nation is a difficult task. Different areas have different problems, and the macro envir...

Four Structures in Oklahoma City

are no readily discernible passive features that accommodate solar heat collection; however, the portico does offer shelter from r...

IBM's New York City Location and Web Design

prominent management personnel. Fundamental to profiling these individuals is to understand the manner by which they run the comp...

Urban Policy Decision Shifts

districts were also homes to railway stations that brought people from out of state. However, when the automobile began making lon...

Considering the Question Are 'All Sales Final?'

In a paper consisting of five pages an individual responds to the City's advertisement to surrender all firearms for $100 and lear...

Overview of London, England

poem by the same title that begins: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of...

Appearance of Place in The American Friend Film by Director Wim Wenders

An analysis of the city's role in The American Friend, a 1977 film by director Wim Wenders, is presented in seven pages. There is...

Comparative Analysis of San Francisco and Tokyo in Terms of Poverty and Crime

In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares Tokyo and San Francisco in terms of each city's poverty and crime. Twel...

The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

Historical Landscape Changes in Shelburne, Vermont

both grand and far-reaching; that each church, bridge, park and home erected within the community served to change the very terrai...

Increasing Business for Dubai Internet City

the following two years. 1. Introduction Dubai Internet City is a well established high tech business park, the 300 million squ...

Omaha Nebraska: The Ideal City?

easy access to the mountains and the seashore alike. It would have plenty of flat ground for easy walking but just enough rolling...

Muslim History: Damascus and Cairo

and the Christian Jerusalem comprised the major powers within Syria at the time.3 In relationship to Cairo, several years ...

Architectural Similarities and Differences in Kuala Lampur and Dubai

that people could better escape the somewhat inhospitable environment as they moved from building to building. Their time outside...

The Effect of Refunding or Reorganizing Existing Debt Obligations

of implications. There will often be a shifting of debt from one finance source to another, this may or may not involve a change o...

New Orleans: Race, Ethnicity, and a "Sense of Place" After Katrina

nationalist mentality throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, cultural identity has gradually become more intimately associated wi...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Economic Inequality

were intended. There is a law that requires states to distribute federal funding towards its earmarked purposes. If the law is vio...

Overview of Engineering Ethics

been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...

Tuition Reimbursement Benefits Assessment

of tuition reimbursed but in terms of paid time off for studies and the potential for abusing the system by using city clerical st...

Sociologist Nancy Kleniewski's City Definition

that examines urban life and helps one determine a precise definition of a city. The principle features of metropolitan life--the ...

Philadelphia and Chicago Historic Restoration and Preservation

possess buildings and locations that should be preserved to further embrace the history of the United States. In relationship to...