Running head: KEY AREAS OF URBAN LIFE TO IMPROVE 3 KEY AREA OF URBANLIFE TO IMPROVE FOR BETTER CITY LIFE SHAH HARSH Pro.MacDonald 1. Imagine you are the mayor of New York City. Discuss three key areas of urban life that you would want to improve to make the city a better place in which to live. As the mayor of the New York City, I would like to improve some key areas such as road quality, transportation fares and budgeting. These areas of urban life can make effective improvement to make our city a nice and good place to live For smooth and fast transportation city needs better road quality of each corner.
GENTRIFICATION : AN ETHICAL DILEMMA IN A CHANGING WORLD INTRODUCTION Today's urban areas have evolved from manufacturing focused hubs to community based centers focused on services. With that change a heavily debated issue of gentrification has arisen. Areas previously occupied by low income manual laborers are being converted to trendy middle class neighborhoods. Understanding what gentrification is, why it is an ethical issue, who is making the decisions, and what the effects of the decision to gentrify a neighborhood are will provide the basis for an informed opinion on this growing topic. Each of the sections below will examine an aspect related to the benefits and detriments of gentrification, and will allow for a cohesive understanding of an issue that will continue to be hotly contested, not just in the United States but globally.
With reference to waste management in urban areas discuss the extent to which sustainability can be achieved? A sustainable city is one that meets the needs of its both its present and future inhabitants, and an effective waste management system is often an underlying principle deployed in order to achieve successful sustainability in urban areas. Waste management usually refers to materials produced by human activity, and defined as the collection, transport, processing and disposal of this waste. It is of vital importance - particularly with recent global warming issues - that urban areas implement a successful waste management scheme, and examples such as the Bristol ‘Poo Bus’ and the ‘Waste to Energy’ programme in Copenhagen show that across the world urbanised areas are trying to address the issue. The more traditional forms of waste management, such as incineration, landfill and composting are heavily debated; which is the best method of waste disposal?
AT&T can use these exclusive licenses to keep those customers even after they lose this exclusive access. … "IPhone Exclusivity" has a significant impact, so an analyst should put more weight into it. "IPhone Exclusivity" will have a long-term positive impact on the this entity, which adds to its value. "IPhone Exclusivity" is an easily defendable qualitative factor, so competing institutions will have a difficult time overcoming it. * Diverse products Diverse products and revenue should help shield the business from shocks in any one part of their business.
Goods need to be transferred from the manufacturing plant to the storage centers, and from these to the retailers, and finally, to the customer. Furthermore, transportation, warehousing, and information systems play very significant roles in the logistics function. For supply chain in particular, logistics creates the efficient flow of good between supply chain partners, and is responsible for the maximization of profits and competitive advantages. However, due to the geographical varsity of its manufacturing plants and warehouses, it posed a critical question, how to implement a good strategy enabling them to reduce costs-transportation, storage and labeling, and fixed costs. According to the case, Westminster Company has some issues that affect the transportation.
There are several reasons why planners and developers focused on the Cramer Hill area for redevelopment. First of all, the area is near major transportation routes and centers, including the Ben Franklin Bridge, Interstate 95, Route 676, the Walter Rand Transportation Center, and the RiverLine. City planners know that residents and businesses want easy access in and out of an area for the greatest number of people. Secondly, Cramer Hill is a stable neighborhood with a lower percentage of crime and poverty than many other parts of the city. This is a desirable trait for redevelopment because it makes it more likely that efforts will be successful.
Identify the main reasons for reviewing working methods, products and / or services in a business environment. The main reason why a business should review working methods, products and / or services are to ensure that they are keeping in line with other businesses. An example of not keeping up with the times is HMV. Change can cause added pressures to the business. However there are changes that would have a small affect on the business.
EST1 310.2.1-05 Company Q has made several key choices as it relates to social responsibility. This viewpoint will highlight the decisions, the Authors personal opinions on the matter, and recommended actions taken to improve its stance towards positive social responsibility. To begin, we must look at the initial decisions that led to the consequent actions in question in this discussion. To begin, Company Q made a decision to targets major metropolitan areas, which ended up being in areas with high crime rates. This was a decision made to take advantage of large population centers.
When retailers learned that certain rights, specifically free speech and assembly, could hamper sales, they sought to dictate a desirable balance, resulting in legal clashes that ultimately reached the Supreme Court (405). Legal arguments revolve around 1st amendment and private property rights, both of which are guaranteed to American citizens (405). To resolve the conflict, courts sought to determine whether malls had supplanted town squares as public platforms for free speech and assembly (405). Cohen notes that when the first malls opened in the 1950’s, people treated them as public spaces akin to the town square and, accordingly, used them as a forum to reach the community. Political activists and even candidates capitalized on the mall’s ability to attract crowds.
Throughout the article Mr. Davidson gives data, facts and specific incidents revolving around displacement of people as the direct outcome of gentrification or urban renewal. His strong argument will not only help my research, it has the potential of being to strong, and might overshadow, or cause my research to be skewed due to his findings. Freeman, Lance. There Goes the 'hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006.