From 2005 to 2008 I lived in a suburb of Chicago. Because of the rapid growth of the city there were new streets and roads popping up all of the time. As long as it took for GPS devices to update their maps it would have been even slower and more expensive to be updating physical paper maps all of the time. Another benefit to personal navigation devices is that they can help plan your route. You can search for the shortest route by distance.
Reasons for the economic boom in the 1920s America experienced an economic boom after World War 1 ended because of many different factors. There was a rapid increase in industry and this caused many more people, including women to become employed and to earn their own money. Many new industries were created in the 1920s; one of the rapidly increasing industries was the car industry. Henry Ford revolutionised the production of cars by creating mass production. This meant that people had one specific job on the production line that they repeated over and over so they became very good at this one job, this meant that the T-ford model could be produced every 10 seconds.
Most people move to the city because they want to get a better life. With rapid urbanization, the movement of migration from rural to urban is hurried, so a country has no time to plan for their existence at the cities. Although urbanization has changed the life of hundreds of millions of people in China, and it also has improved the economic development, if the urban population continues to grow rapidly, the problems such as public health with medical service, environment issues, and employment problems will continue to worsen which will hurt the country. With the technological and economic development in China, medical technology has a substantial change in the past decades. However, as the cities’ expanse, China’s urban population is growing rapidly, so the public health problem increase seriously, and it has become a big issue in China.
Strategic Issues at UPS Abstract In 1907 there was a great need for private messenger and delivery services which led to the founding of the United Parcel Service. James E. Casey, borrowed $100 from a friend and established the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Washington at age 19. With only a few automobiles in existence, most deliveries were to be made on foot or by using a bicycle for the longer trips. Beginning in 1913 United States Parcel Service focused more on package delivery to stores, due to the increased usage of telephones and automobiles that led to the decline in the messenger business. The company also began to use motorcycles to make deliveries instead of doing it completely on foot.
Joan Lee Period 1, AP Us History 5 January 2010 Chapter 25 America Moves to the City 1865-1900 Through industrial revolutions, many Americans began to abandon their agrarian farm lives and grasp the life of the City. Not only were Americans following this trend, many Europeans begun to desert farming and search for fresh job opportunities in the cities. This instigated a prodigious increase of city dwellers and minimized the amount of farmers in the U.S. I. The Urban Frontier (pages 557-560) a.
The documentary, Urbanized, by Gary Hustwit's examines urban development worldwide. He notes that more people are moving towards the cities from rural areas placing a great deal of strain on city planners as they formulate their strategies for the coming years of development. I was struck by the diversity of needs by the cities mentioned in the documentary. Mumbai has as many people living in slums as all of London and is set to be the largest city in the world in 2050 according to the documentary. Poor people are moving into slums because the city design has no space for them and this lack of space causes slums to become more and more dense.
Electric Streetcars As times changed cities became more congested and the old horse railways were not an option for people on the move. The invention of the electric streetcars transformed the walking cities into the streetcar cities (Garcia, p. 610). People swarmed to the electric streetcars and relied on them for daily, quick transportation. While electric streetcars rapidly increased, so did the towns and cities that surrounded and contained them. Streetcars were one of the most successful inventions because they ended horse railways, increased in number quickly, were a widely accepted innovation, and helped with the expansion of towns outward.
Who would've ever thought that anyone and everyone would be driving a car? Cars are a way of life in today's society we no longer use horses or even walk to our next destination. With the growing population, having to meet life’s demands and leisure we have growing emissions pollution problems and high costing oil and gas prices. Over the years scientists have been concerned over the global warming on the earth. There are many things that cause global warming but one of the primary causes is cars and trucks on the road every day and all day and never ceases.
Assignment #1: New Urbanism Back in the 1950’s, many cities around the United States had the feel of a community to them where people knew each other, and walking was an essential activity that was used daily to fulfill many needs. However, as time went by, we have shifted our focus of designing communities that are aimed to give us that feeling of being within a community. Nowadays, we build our communities to accommodate the overflow of automobiles and therefore we have dispersed the communities and thus created suburbs that are very unattractive and most importantly inconvenient. The majority of our land use has become a use for building streets and pathways for automobiles. In a sense, this has destroyed the feeling of a community, where a person could basically walk to a nearby shop or park and obtain all the necessities for the daily life.
Houses are spread vastly apart leaving abundant room for gardens and fields. Due to a much reduced number of people inhabiting the these places, there is more room for pets to be owned and wild animals to roam around that keep the equilibrium maintained in the nature. The difference between the two is that people living in urban areas lead a more “urban” life, while the people who inhabit rural areas experience the more rural aspects of life. Some see this as an advantage, and again some see it as a threat to the environment around us. According to environmental groups, "Urban Sprawl is gobbling up open spaces in fast-growing metropolitan areas so quickly that it could spell extinction for nearly 1,200 species of plants and animals."