The urban condition is everywhere and none of us are immune from the physical and cultural influences of the city. Urban life has become a product we consume as much as latest offering from Sony Pictures, Abercrombie & Fitch or American Eagle. ... The backsides of walls speak of young men caught up in a family so tight, the only way out is death; their symbols and names represented in colorful sprays made into true urban pieces of art. ... Commerce is a fundamental function of the city, if not the primary reason for urban life. What else is the city but a giant machine for making money? ...

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Industrialization started in Great Britain with the invention of machines like the Flying Shuttle in 1733, and the Spinning Jenny in 1764 with steam as the main source of power. ... For most countries the amount of people living in urban areas almost doubled during and after industrialization. An example of this rising urban population is England. ... Also in Germany and Prussia their urban population in 1816 was 26 percent and by the end of the revolution it grew to around 50 percent. ... Now with both transportation being cheap, and more accessible, along with more urban growth, there ...

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The rural and agricultural life turned to urban industrial with longer working hours and away from family. ... The new productivity of the machines changed the economy of Britain. ... Named for their mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the rioter wanted the new machines banned. ... The steam engine, railroad track and locomotives, steamships, and new urban system of gas supply and solid and liquid waste disposal all depended on iron for their construction. ... The machines operated by the workers, however, were expensive and could not remain inactive. ...

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Reform movements in education, an influx of immigrants, as well as a rapid increase in technology and population nurtured the growth of industry and urban life throughout America. ... This migration led to the development of urban life throughout America. The rapid growth in urban areas was not matched by the growth of services; clean water, trash removal, and housing all lagged behind, and the wealthy got them first. ... Inventions such as Goodyear's process of vulcanizing rubber, Howe's sewing machine, McCormick's mechanical reaper, and John Deere's steel plow revoluti...

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Skilled workers were replaced with unskilled workers who were trained to work these new machines. ... The area went from primarily agriculture to capitalist and from a rural economy to an urban economy. ... For example, textile production became more industrialized by the use of machines. ... Many different machines were being used and invented in the factories so there was an increase need or demand for operators. ... The life of workers was changed such as jobs in the mills and mines as well as factory workers, urban life was still growing and forming new social classes, and then there was s...

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As far as we concern, industrialisation is a shift from domestic system of production to factory system of product such as coal, to power machines in factory. ... This period witnessed the changes of hand tools or handcrafts to an economy based on manufacturing by heavy machines. ... Apart from that, Britain also rich in mineral resources such as iron and core that have made a great demand due to the development of heavy machines. ... The industrial revolution had seen a rapid growth of the cities and town as a result of the migration of the rural people to the urban areas. ... As capitalist o...

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The Industrial Revolution led to the growth of cities which allowed peole to move from rural basic communities to more modern urban communities where peolpe could start a more modern based city living. ... Economic changes caused social changes, which allowed people from lower standard communties to move into a more urban based community, which gave a better disbursment of commercial goods . ... Factory workers lost fingers or limbs by a factory machine. ...

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Such urban growth was the result of a large-scale appeal to foreigners and farmers alike. ... Farmers were continuously losing work and being replaced by machines that could do farming work far more efficiently and productively. ...

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The economic significance of the first Industrial Revolution is explained with the new emergence of factories and machines. ... For example the members of the Bourgeoisie wanted their machines and factories to run as much as possible, and this created a new labor system. ... Workers were expected to work very long hours six days a week to make sure the machines kept running. ... Because of all of this, the factories, machines, and family labor, Britain becomes the richest industrial nation by the mid 19th century. ... An increase in food production lead to more people being able to get the...

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Le Corbusier and Ex-Urban Wright 1. How is Le Corbusier's "Villa Savoye- and F.L. Wright's "Falling Water- an exemplary representative of its designer's ideals and ideals? Both the Villa Savoye and Falling Water are perfect examples of architects expressing themselves through their work. These ...

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Red Fusion can be found in convenience stores, grocery stores, drug stores, vending machines, and mass merchandise retail stores. ... This contemporary, urban soft drink targets teenagers and young adults also known as Generation Y and the African American community. ... For example, the voice in the advertisements uses the latest urban street slang to communicate to its target audience; "You think I"m playin"? ...

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They assemble cars, package food, load machines and repair machines. ... Urbie, is an urban robot initially used in mobile military assistance in city terrain, but it's many features make it useful for police, emergency and rescue personnel. ... Urbie is useful to investigate urban areas that are contaminated with radiation, biological warfare, or chemical spills. ...

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ENGLISH ESSAY ("MODERN TIMES" AND "THE FLANEUR") "The ordinary practitioners of the city live "down below" the thresholds at which visibility begins they are walkers "wandesrmaenner", whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban text." ... Chaplins character is a proletarian, a man defined by his labour in much the same way as a machine. ... A role that the Factory Worker seems to take on most consistently, one that perfectly illustrates his working class identity, is that of t...

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Men had not yet grasped the ideal of creating machines or using their cattle to ease their jobs. ... This proved very profitable for the urban merchants, since they could sell the finished cloth for far more than they paid the farmers to make it. ... Britain had a larger educated workforce in place to run the machines and create the necessary manuals. ...

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He renames this idea of fate as the "Destiny-machine", which can be described as a vast and elaborate system that society organized as a machine. The following quote elaborates his idea about the Destiny-machine. "Rather than a metaphysical fate, I have associated this network of circumstances with the structures of modern urban life, where every trace can be followed up by the surveillance society" (289). ... People are constantly being watched and their fates seem to be controlled by this so-called Destiny-machine. ... In the battle between society and Wanley, the societ...

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In the 1950's, computers were a new race of machines and most common person did not know anything about them. ... "Through the centuries, several mathematical geniuses invented machines to aid them in their calculations. The machines were never widely used and generally had no direct path to the later development of electronic computers" (Gary, ¶ 3). It was not until 1642 that Blaise Pascal a French mathematician, invented the first mechanical adding machine at the age of nineteen. ... (http://ts.mivu.org/ ¶ 8) Location also has a lot to do with the access of the ...

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The first was rapid growth of the transportation and information networks, second was the managerial revolution that saw large corporations dominate the economy, and lastly he saw the development of a rural to urban move that brought about a change in the way Americans consumed goods. ... He invented the phonograph, a machine the catches the lightest of whispers of conversation and stores it up, so that any future time it can be brought out, to the confusion of the speaker. This machine will eventually destroy all confidence between man and man- Despite criticism the phonograph became very ...

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Then hundreds of years passed, and people who wanted to share their ideas with people had to do allot of writing, until someone thought to make a writing machine. This machine is called the printing press. ... For example, after deregulation of the airline industry, prices dropped dramatically for large urban centers, but steadily rose for small rural centers. ... Sprint has made small moves also providing cellular telephone services in five urban areas. ... It has established fiber optic services (SONET) in 18 large urban centers and is actively trying to lure the largest corporate customers ...

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Beth Wade (2000) reports that because of weather changes and growing urban population problem, which earlier concerned only countryside, now shifted into the cities. In support of this data she cites words of Don Wilhite, director of NDMC, who says that our society "is moving rapidly into urban areas, and, as a result, we're experiencing more and more water shortage problems ". ... The Australian Government, as part of its 2008-2009 budget, has announced an urban water plan that contains refunds on domestic rainwater tank installation. ... (Budget incentives to save water, 2008) We must...

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Unlike electric vehicles, gasoline fueled motor vehicles create more pollution than any other human-made machines. ... If electric vehicles were introduced on a global scale, urban pollution would improve significantly. ...

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When the Irish set out for America, they had very little money and were not prepared for urban life. ... Throughout time, the Irish gradually began to become more prosperous and they had begun to gain control of powerful city machines. ...

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.*** The New Urban Culture The 1920 census revealed that for the first time, slightly more than half of the population lived in cities Women and the Family "flappers" set out to compete on equal terms with men on the golf course and in the speakeasy. ... Plays and novels focused on adultery, and the new urban tabloids-led by the New York Daily News-delighted in telling their readers about love nests and kept women. ... Sex was no longer a taboo subject, at least in urban areas' men and women now could discuss it openly , and many of them did. ... They were critical of ...

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Pablo PicassoI have researched into Pablo Picasso, and have found one of his linoleum cuts. The linoleum cut is called 'Still Life under a Lamp' (1962) it is the most brilliant example of Picasso's one-block linoleum cuts. It represents well, too, highly decorative turn his vision took in his last d...

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After ordering the German soldiers to lie down, the machine gun opened fire resulting in the deaths of nine Americans, including York's best friend in the outfit, Murray Savage. Sergeant Early received seventeen bullet wounds and turned the command over to corporals Harry Parsons and William Cutting, who ordered York to silence the machine gun. ... Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns. ...

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It also impacted urban development and the economy. ... It could create high levels of heat and power machines that were more efficient. ... New inventions like the sewing machine helped speed up spinning, weaving, and sewing. ... Because of the industrialization some workers were being replaced by machines. ...

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