As the flowers blossomed during the spring of 2013, The British Broadcasting Company published an article stating that green spaces can boost the well-being of urban dwellers. ... With rising pollution due an increased driving, and activity of various machines, global warming has been said to have negative effects our health. ... The research team measured the temperatures in an urban area that included forests and grasslands, as well as in the surrounding urban area in Nagoya, central Japan. ... This study shows how the activity in individual urban spaces can affect human health on a globa...

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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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This historical event, which took place from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, shifted agricultural, rural societies to industrial, urban societies in Europe and North America. Before the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late eighteenth century, economies were based on agricultural production and handicrafts, using hand tools and basic machines. ... As production shifted from handicraft to mechanized work, capitalist accessed financing in order to purchase machinery and factories because machines produced goods quicker and cheaper than individual crafts persons. ......

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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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All of these factors then restored health, jobs and money in to our country, but this meant all rural areas became industrialised and were more urban than countryside. Urbanisation is the growth of cities that occurred in the late 18th century, such as Manchester and Liverpool, this was produced by the urbanisation as this targeted urban civilisation more than any other. ... Starting from small landowners losing their land, and working class people losing their jobs due to the industrial revolution (machines taking their jobs). ... Living standards where affected majorly by the population, thi...

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Such as, Urbanization; all the people Susan sees shows that many moved to the urban areas for work, and the reason for all these people to appear in the factories proves of the capital system. ... Therefore, most of the jobs that are found in urban areas are specific concentrated jobs that are used to increase an urban areas economy. ... "The material processed changed, from linen and wool to cotton; the way that cotton was grown and prepared changed, with the invention of the cotton gin and the reinvention of the plantation; new machines, invented to process the cotton, found a new setti...

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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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However, the Hollywood that emerged from the studios' smoking ruins was perhaps an even more streamlined movie-making machine. ... During the 1970s, New York City led the country down a musical road that would reshape the meaning of urban American culture and give millions of young people a chance to develop their own sense of entertainment, dress, and expression. ... From the Sugarhill Gang to the Beastie Boys, rappers challenge the DJs' beats and breaks with clever rhymes and thoughtful urban commentaries. ... Graffiti artists depend on their urban landscape to create visual compan...

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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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.*** 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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Response The Industrial Revolution, which took place between the 18th and 19th centuries, was a time where rural societies became industrial and urban. ... The living conditions in urban industrial settings were a popular subject for reformers. ... Technology needed to advance in order to create new machines that would lessen the workload for those factory workers. ... Urban areas needed to be expanded in order to house families living in that urban area. ...

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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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This professional training disposed him to design values associated with the machine aesthetic and the potential of technological innovation. ... According to landscape historian David Streatfield, "Neutra merged his acute sensitivity to the local landscape with the European modernist tradition of treating nature as mere backdrop to man-made architecture with the soft forms of nature proving a contrast to machine-age materials. ... Its near-flat roof, simple wall treatment, relieved by bands of casement windows (including them across the former garage door) reflected the machine aesthetic ...

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Such like, Brand name or reputation, patented products Information acquisition, R & D activities in addition, FDI also will bring some location advantage Avoid transportation costs and trade costs, company get the Political benefits and Information benefits at the same time. 3.Distribution networks The distribution channels of carbonated beverages in the US mainly consist of wholesalers, retailer, supermarkets, fountain outlets, vending machines, mass merchandiser, convenience stores and gas stations. ... Except some large country and urban city , Coca-Cola also will focus on some small area w...

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Also, he told him that he had plans to build machine that could destroy fortress, cannons that where easy to transport, covered chariots, and other machines. ... Leonardo spent a great deal of his time while he was in Milan working on military plans and working on engineering projects, such as plans for urban-renewal (Stokstad 688). ... Also during this time Leonardo made his first attempt at building a flying machine. ... Giovanni flying machine failed, but Leonardo asked questioned people how had seen the machine first hand. After questioning the people that had seen the flying machine L...

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During this time period, society was transformed into one of increasingly dominated by central political institutions with an urban attitude. ... He designed many machines that are being used currently in our world. ... His notes included small ideas for how a perpetual motion machine would work. ... In early research, Da Vinci envisioned machines with bird like wings. ... Da Vinci made the machine controlled by the force of the pilot or whoever was in charge when flying these machines. ...

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According to a report from ILO (1955) cited by Koga (1968), the definition for "traditional industry "insists on craftsman's skill with the absence of machines and therefore can be divided into two types as rural and urban as cited by Koga (1968). In rural areas, traditional industries are usually seasonal extra gain while in urban, they take place as nearly full-time (Koga, 1968). ... Some regions in industrialised countries are shown to take initiates to innovation by the renewal of product structure, machine application etc. ...

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Populism in Latin America has varied considerable throughout the years and has always seemed to go hand in hand with the nature of export development as well as the amount of urban and industrial development that each respective country experiences. Unlike populism else where in the world, Latin American populism is very urban focused and usually rests upon export oriented economies and the want of the people to expand their own countries economic development. Such a situation will indefinitely lead to a growth in the working classes within the industrial and urban sectors of society. ... ...

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According to Erbin and Soulas (2003) around 30 years ago only a few number of countries had developed unmanned urban transport, but France invested in new technologies and became the first country in the world to develop a driverless metro. ... As a safe system it continues to be used in Chicago airport, in Lille as urban metro and in Taipeh VAL as a heavy metro. In brief, over the years countries around the world have developing new system to improve the use of driverless vehicle, and France is an example of country that developed the first driverless urban metro in the world. ... In autonom...

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Immigrants with peasant backgrounds, and even migrants from America's own rural regions, are especially ill equipped to survive the urban jungle because of their stubborn individualism. Jurgis relies on his own strong back to carry his family, to cope with inhuman work, but he simply becomes a screw in the industrial machine, to be discarded as soon as he shows the signs of being broken. ... It was a huge rat race, in which it was every man for himself, but not even the strongest could survive in this urban jungle for only the wealthy and corrupt were the ones who made it to the top....

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Goods were now being produced by machines rather than by hand. ... Immigrants fled to the urban area seeking employment and a better life. ... "Machines as the men: science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance." ...

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As urban industrial workers expanded in the 19th century, industry and the industrial work force boomed as well. ... Depressions and recessions led to cyclical employment, style and weather caused seasonal employment, and machines replacing humans brought structural employment. ...

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