Urban Survey of Vancouver
I live in downtown. It is the heart of the Vancouver. It’s always busy and there are a
lot of people on the streets most of the time. I believe that in my area everywhere you look you can see elements that identify that this is urban and is a part of Vancouver.
The most obvious elements in downtown is of course would the high buildings. These are mostly the offices of the companies that may base in British Columbia, but also outside the British Columbia’s boundaries. These building are usually tall building, some of them have the logo of the company or companies on top of the front entrance or on the top of the building. Basically, all we can see, without going inside is that men and women go in there in suits, but we know that is where the business is handled. The usual work hours for offices from 9 am to 6 pm.
I think another element would be the shopping malls and the large number of stores in Downtown area. There is a large variety of stores, no matter what you are looking for you will find it here for sure. Everything that people require to satisfy themselves, starting from clothes and ending with food. This show that this branch of the city is an important urban part.
Almost every single building in downtown area is unique and because this part of the city is one the tourist attractions, the architecture of structures here is at different level than the rest of the city.
There is a saying – “All roads lead to Rome”. In this case all roads lead to downtown Vancouver, for example: sea bus, B-line buses, sky-train. The great transportation routes are all somehow connecting to downtown. From downtown you can get anywhere in the Vancouver area and even further.
I would also like to look at the chains of stores and other service providing places, for example Safeway, London drugs, 7-Eleven etc. These companies are very rich and they have a lot of locations. They usually sell only the “necessary” and expensive stuff. The stores usually sell junk food, and it really hard to find something healthy, but if you do, you will see do that the prices are very high. Another good example would definitely be fast food restaurant or coffee shops. I think that McDonald’s and Starbucks coffee are the leaders of in their field and they have a location on every corner in Downtown.
The Panic of 1893 was one of the most grim and profound problems that plagued America at the end of the 19th century. The financial catastrophe began in May of 1893 when two companies – The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and The Cordage Company declared bankruptcy after failing to fulfill payments on their loans. The joint financial failures of the companies sparked a crash in the stock market. This served as a catalyst for a surge of bank failures because many New York banks were big investors in the Stock Market. The financial disaster began in New York and soon permeated its way throughout the country. Over a six-month period, over 8,000 businesses, 156 railroads, 400 banks failed, and 20% of Americans were unemployed By July of 1893, there was massive unemployment in factories and extensive wage cuts....
Mortgages had foreclosed and agricultural prices fell by almost one half. Investments collapsed and price in land dropped. The drop lead to land speculation and the expansion of banks and the Second Bank of the United States. Export of agricultural goods and Import of manufactured goods increased. Their was widespread foreclosures and bank failures. All of these events ultimately lead to The Panic of 1819.
The impact of the Panic was profound. The whole nation was affected by the Panic, especially in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware, which experienced the most stress in their mercantile districts. New York alone reported nearly $100,000,000 loss within two months. However, the South suffered even more than the East. The Panic caused an increase in interest in varying crops in Virginia, North Carolina, and South ...
Vancouver is not affordable to live for the young professionals due to gentrification problems. The economy requires gentrification to develop the city. In order for a city to flow better, more people have to spend and sell. Furthermore, for people to spend or sell more, it requires more people to live. However, gentrification is pushing people away from their homes, and makes it difficult for the young professionals to move in. Therefore, a lot of young professionals and working class would move out and live outside the city.
The theme of propaganda comes up in a part of the story when the pigs say “You have heard then, comrades, ‘that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? The pigs justify sleeping in beds by saying that they removed the sheets so it does not make it a bed. The theme of propaganda rises again when squealer has to justify to the animals that the pigs should keep the apples and milk for themselves because they are the more intelligent ones of the farm and need to stay healthy which the animals then accept. Propaganda is shown again when boxer is taken away to the “knackers” to be turned into glue which the animals are not aware of and think that he has been taken to hospital for treatment. Squealer then goes on to tell them that he was taken to the hospital by the vet for treatment but unfortunately died there. Squealer tells the animals that he was there when he passed and that his last words were “long live animal farm” which was not true and never even happened because he wasn’t taken to hospital, he was taken to the knackers to be turned into glue. When the animals questioned why it said “horse mortuary” on the side of the van squealer told them that the vet had bought the van off the knackers and had not been rebranded
...ade it impossible for railroads to borrow money. Railroads were highly leveraged and required loans to repay current debt obligations. When the financier of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Jay Cooke and Company, could not borrow more money, its investment house closed its doors and caused a panic on Wall Street. Nervous investors tried to withdraw their funds from investment houses and banks. Wall Street closed for ten days.
Downtown London had the highest vacancy rate in the city space was being rented for prices between fifty cents and two dollars per meter which was lower than the average in London.
Tiffany Rush-Wilson says in her article The Crisis of Childhood Obesity that due to this health crisis, we know have a generation of children that are expected to live shorter lives than their parents. Obesity is defined as a condition in which a person’s weight is more than 20% greater than is recommended for his or her height and age. Durin...
The kind of questions I would ask myself are would gentrification benefit not only the people but the smaller stores who created the community? Or would it let the small businesses struggle to stand?
...as the locals and showcase path breaking and latest innovation to the older principle of science and inventions. The Canadian National Exhibition is the oldest annual fair of the world and held at Exhibition Place. The Toronto International Film Festival is a major crowd puller in the Yorkville neighborhood. The Distillery District, Queen West, Harbour front, the Entertainment District, Financial District and St. Lawrence Market is always thronged with curious tourist and locals. Eaton Centre is one of the most favored shopping destinations of North America. The GreekTown on the Danforth attracts huge crowd during the annual “Taste of Danforth” festival and is famous for the highest concentrations of restaurants per kilometer in the world. The Unique cultural fusion coupled with rich historic heritages make Toronto one of the most sought after cities of the world.
The Panic of 1893 brought up the most severe depression the nation and YET experienced. In March 1893 when a company was unable to meet payments on loans, declared bankruptcy. After a few more months, another company failed too. This triggered a collapse of the stock market. A wave of bank failures soon began. It caused a contraction of credit, which meant that many of the new, aggressive, and ...
(Www.english.uiuc.edu) tells us that besides ruining many thousands of individual investors, this precipitous decline in the value of assets greatly strained banks and other financial institutions, particularly those holding stocks in their portfolios. Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency; by 1933, 11,000 of the United States' 25,000 banks had failed. The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the downward spiral.
...ale Animal Farm proves to be a symbolic and understanding book. In its pages we can see the contrast between a supposedly communistic state where everyone is equal and the same, and how in the end it only leads to a total dictatorial establishment of totalitarianism, where everything is controlled by an elite group. Though Animal Farm was established with the idea of every animal being equal, in the end, the voice of the scheming pigs was the only one heard. Secondly, the book powerfully symbolizes key figures that have appeared in history. It shows how Karl Marx affected the Communism movement in the character Old Major, and also displays the kind of government that lights the fuse for a revolution in the tempered Farmer Jones. Though dark and menacing, Animal Farm paints a very brutal yet truthful view of the dangers when a society moves to the ideas of communism.