DISASTER PREPARATION AND THINGS TO CONSIDER
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This 3-page paper provides a sample essay of how to prepare for disaster. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MTdisaprep.rtf

Douglas Yates / 'The Ungovernable City'
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A 5 page book review that outlines Yates' premise about the local governmental inadequacies that have resulted in the diminished capacity urban centers, including New York and New Haven. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Yates.rtf

Drugs and Urban Violence
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This 15 page paper discusses various aspects of the issue of drugs and urban violence and comments on the strength of the link between drug use and urban violence. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: HVDruVio.rtf

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster
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This 15 page paper addresses this major issue. Los Angeles, the City of Angels, has also been described as the city of dreams and the city of hope. In an almost prophetic tale of conflict and decline, Mike Davis, in Ecology of Hope: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster, argues that Los Angeles is a city poised for disaster. It is Davis' developed belief that Los Angeles is a city that was constructed in a manner that lends itself to susceptibility to disaster, and promotes a lifestyle that is completely unprepared for these types of natural responses to urban development. More particularly, the major changes that land developers, business leaders and urban planners have made to the region determine the vulnerability of the city to natural disaster. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHEcoFea.rtf

Economic Development in Phoenix
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A 5 page paper examining reasons that business and workers continue to move to Phoenix. The population of 3 million grew by 80,000 in 2000, a rate of growth expected to continue for several years. Phoenix has shown no signs of inner city decay that has been common in other rapidly growing areas, and in fact only Atlanta is growing at a faster pace. The paper lists factors that planners will need to address, as well as those that make Phoenix attractive to business. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSphoenix.wps