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Your search for: urban AND homeless


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Books on: urban homeless

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Journal Articles on: urban homeless

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Magazine Articles on: urban homeless

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Newspaper Articles on: urban homeless

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Encyclopedia Articles on: urban homeless

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    China
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...has been increased movement to urban areas since the late 1970s...people and leaving millions homeless. In May, 1999, during the...of more than 9% and a major urban building boom, resulting in...the disparity between richer urban and poorer rural China, which...
     
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    India
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...population live below the poverty line; and urban India, one of the most heavily industrialized...highly sophisticated culture, its chief urban centers being Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa...and hundreds of thousands were made homeless. By Apr., 2005, relations with Pakistan...
     
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    Earthquake
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...fewer effects. The worst damage occurs in densely populated urban areas where structures are not built to withstand intense shaking...major damage to the citys infrastructure and left thousands homeless. Bibliography See C. H. Scholz, The Mechanics of Earthquakes...
     
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    Chicago , City, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Jane Addams . In 1961 the Hull House location, part of an urban renewal project, was selected as the site of the Chicago campus...which killed several hundred people, rendered 90,000 homeless, and destroyed some $200 million worth of property. Chicago...
     
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    Lobbying
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...National Rifle Association, and the National Coalition for the Homeless maintain permanent lobbies in Washington and in state capitals...Scott et al., Congress and Lobbies (1966); S. Farkas, Urban Lobbying (1971); G. Wooton, Interest Groups (1971...
     

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