To what extent do urban areas modify their climate? Urban areas climate is often significantly different to the surrounding rural areas‚ this is why urban areas are often described as having their own “micro climate” the differences in urban climates are due to number of different factors. Urban areas often experience a phenomenon known as a heat island‚ this is a zone of hot air around and above an urban area which has higher temperatures than the surrounding rural areas consequently cities tend
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Amelia Scotney ‘To what extent do urban areas modify their climate?’ – 40 marks. Cities create their own microclimates and their sites are almost always warmer‚ compared to a nearby rural location‚ than if the city were not there. The differences in urban climates are due to a number of different factors. The Urban Heat Island effect is known as the zone of hot air that develops over the urban areas and consequently higher temperatures than the surrounding rural area. Temperatures progressively decline
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cities which offer more resources and education. However‚ rural area also has indispensable characters. In this essay‚ I will show you three differences between urban and rural areas based on my personal experience. Contrast Between Urban and Rural Areas After entering the college‚ I have broadened my insights about the world by contacting with urban areas and thereby observing a number of differences between cities and rural areas. As a child growing up in a primitive rural village‚ I was told to
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character values this could have an impact on lowering the crime rate. In my research on crime in urban areas versus crime in the suburban areas; I predict that people who live in urban areas will have a much higher crime rate than those living in suburban areas. Poverty is crime’s chief messenger in the United States. Studies have found that poverty‚ not race‚ is responsible for high crime rates in urban communities. This was revealed in a study completed by an Ohio State University research team that
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Programme (UNEP) states that ‘By 2007‚ one-half of the world’s population will live in urban areas compared to little more than one-third in 1972‚ and the period 1950 to 2050 will see a shift from a 65 per cent rural population to 65 per cent urban (United Nations Population Division 2001a). By 2002‚ some 70 per cent of the world’s urban population will be living in Africa‚ Asia or Latin America (UNCHS
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URBAN AND RURAL AREAS Human settlements are classified as rural or urban depending on the density of human-created structures and resident people in a particular area. Urban areas can include town and cities while rural areas include villages and hamlets. While rural areas may develop randomly on the basis of natural vegetation and fauna available in a region‚ urban settlements are proper‚ planned settlements built up according to a process called urbanization. Many times‚ rural areas are focused
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people away from the predicaments at hand‚ which is to push the homeless‚ working- and lower class away using violent tactics to make room for the young‚ affluent whites. People think that by having the middle- and upper-middle class in these poor urban communities will “civilize” the people in the community. Yet when in reality‚ they are doing more harm than good. The homeless now have nowhere to stay or sleep. The community can’t use their park how they want to. And instead of putting funds into
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residents. This system has been effective during the colonial era where the urban areas were less populated than there are at the present moment. The Zimbabwe post-independence period has seen a large influx of people into the urban areas. The population growth in urban areas meant that most city councils and municipalities are failing to cope with the water demand. The major reason is that the rate of population increase in urban areas is by far greater than that of improving or increasing the existing
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Introduction It is African Americans and Hispanics from the ages of 16-24 who live in urban areas tend to commit more crimes rather than those ethnicity males in rural areas because of their lifestyle. Minorities who live in urban areas tend to follow what they see and believe that it is acceptable to hang out on the streets and commit robberies. They believe the deviant acts they commit are normal. Rural areas like Orange County‚ NY are filled with African American and Hispanics around the same
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Decentralisation of retail and other services is killing central urban areas. Discuss with references to areas you have studied. (40 marks) The decentralisation of retail and other services has had a major impact on urban areas. Over time shopping has changed from high streets filled with different types of shops and services selling only one type of product such as electronics or food in the 1970s. To the 2000s in which we can buy anything we want all under one roof. Shopping has become a day out
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