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	Urban revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In anthropology and archaeology, the urban revolution is the process by which small, kin-based, nonliterate agricultural villages are transformed into large, socially complex, civilized urban centres.
		The term "urban revolution" was introduced by V.
		Within the Urban revolution brought human achievements such as the pyramids, organized religion, calendars, and mathematics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urban_Revolution (95 words)

	Urban Anthropology
		Urban anthropologists are therefore required to extend their scope, develop new skills, and to take written materials, surveys, historical studies, novels and other sources into account.
		Urban anthropologists themselves rarely address one critical point: Although the initial goal of urban anthropology was to counter the dichotomy between "primitive" and "complex" societies within the disciplines of anthropology and sociology, the validity of this oppositional concept in the real world has never been seriously questioned.
		Whereas urban anthropology in the 1960s and 70s focused on particular issues such as migration, kinship, and poverty, derived from (or in contrast to) traditional-based fieldwork, urban anthropologists had, by the 1980s, expanded their interests to any aspect of urban life.
	www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/URBAN.htm (3479 words)

	Urbanization and Climate Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The increased urban pollution and the effects of the urban heat islands such as high thermal capacity and low heat diffusion have led to an increase in both average temperature and average precipitation.
		The urban atmosphere is mostly comprised of ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide (Barry, 333).
		Urban structures affect the movement of air by producing turbulence as a result of their surface roughness and by the channeling effect of the urban canyons.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/d/j/djy119/urbanclimatechange.html (4029 words)

	The Urban Demographic Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Growth rates of megacities — urban agglomerations of 10 million or more residents — have declined sharply, but this is misleading because these cities still have to absorb enormous population increments in the next 20 years; they face daunting challenges of management and governance to sustain health, well-being, and the environment.
		Modern urban systems require large amounts of energy, and consequent emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides from fossil fuel combustion trap excess heat and lead to climate change, rising sea levels, and changes in vegetation.
		Anthropologists have shown that the urban poor living in slums, shantytowns, and urban fringe areas of megacities are not marginal residents suffering social malaise, but industrious and resourceful people attempting to better their lives.
	www.prb.org /Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3195 (909 words)

	Cultural Revolution - Britannica Concise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mao feared urban social stratification in a society as traditionally elitist as China and also believed that programs instituted to correct for the failed Great Leap Forward showed that his colleagues lacked commitment to the revolution.
		revolution - in social and political science, a major, sudden, and hence typically violent alteration in government and in related associations and structures.
		urban revolution - in anthropology and archaeology, the process by which small, kin-based, nonliterate agricultural villages are transformed into large, socially complex, civilized urban centres.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9362007 (654 words)

	The Peasantry and the Urban Underground In the Cuban
		Revolution The idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a "peasant" revolution or had a "peasant" character is a widely held misconception, one which has been propagated by the rebels' post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic scholarship which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda.
		To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular "nature" is a drastic oversimplification and confounds the multitude of factors which led to the revolution and its victory.
		Being the protagonists in the insurrection, the revolutionaries themselves understood very clearly that their revolution was not the result of merely the peasants' support, so they must have had particular reasons for reconstructing the revolution in the manner they did.
	www.studyworld.com /newsite/ReportEssay/History/American/The_Peasantry_and_the_Urban_Underground_In_the_Cuban-322057.htm (3058 words)

	The Urban Revolution
		Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment.
		Lefebvre begins with the premise that the total urbanization of society is an inevitable process that demands of its critics new interpretive and perceptual approaches that recognize the urban as a complex field of inquiry.
		The first English translation of Henri Lefebvre’s critique of urban life simmers with the student revolts of 1968 Paris and with the genuine conviction that the forces behind that unrest could still change cities as we now them.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/L/lefebvre_urban.html (429 words)

	New Village Journal: Urban Agriculture- Join the Revolution!
		It is a revolution that is providing poor people with an important safety net where they can grow some nourishment and income for themselves and their families.
		Urban agriculture has so many beneficial social and environmental impacts there can be no doubt about its value as a community-building tool and desirable end in itself.
		The CFSC dedicated its Fall 1999/Winter 2000 newsletter to the subject of urban agriculture and is preparing a policy paper on urban agriculture, directed toward federal agencies that are in a position to support city farming (such as HUD, USDA, and EPA).
	www.newvillage.net /Journal/Issue2/2urbanagriculture.html (2423 words)

	Introduction to Urban History
		Urban buildings, streets and open areas provide for a variety of types and intensity of land uses and possess different degrees of permanence.
		Urban planning may be defined as: “The deliberate application of principles relating to the desirable form and nature of urban settlements.
		As a distinctive component of the overall process of urban development, it is typically achieved through the use of regulatory policies and coordinating institutions.” [The Dictionary of Art] “The principles guiding urban planning are grounded in cultural values, in power and the structure of authority, in economic and social interests, and in dominant technologies.
	www.uncp.edu /home/rwb/eur_city.htm (1446 words)

	Community Food Security Coalition - Urban Agriculture Report
		Economic development and community revitalization are also achieved through urban farming when neighborhoods take new pride in a community garden, when inner-city residents gain the ability to grow and market their own food, when inner-city farmers’ markets provide new opportunities for entrepreneurs and commercial farmers.
		Urban commercial gardens using raised beds, soil amendments, and “season extenders” such as row cover and greenhouses produce yields that are generally 13 times more per acre than those of rural farms.
		The growing urban market is also created by the greater ethnic mix of city populations, the increasing abandonment of inner-city areas by large supermarket chains, the phenomenon of urban sprawl, and the fact that Americans are eating much more in restaurants.
	www.foodsecurity.org /urbanag.html (8153 words)

	New Village Journal: The Urban Revolution
		In less than a year, at the dawn of the new millennium, an urban revolution is set to take place: for the first time in human history, one half of the world’s population will be urban.
		At least 600 million urban residents in developing countries — and the numbers are growing — already live in housing of such poor quality and with such inadequate provision of water, sanitation and drainage, that their lives and health are under continuous threat.
		This modern tale of two cities within one city is one of the greatest failures of the urban revolution, as it alienates and marginalizes one part of the urban population from the other.
	www.newvillage.net /Journal/Issue1/1urbanrev.html (945 words)

	Global Exchange : Venezuela's Quiet Housing Revolution: Urban Land Reform
		The urban land reform is functioning as a catalyst for the mobilization of Venezuela's barrios, following the fizzling out of the Bolivarian Circles and the Electoral Battle Units (UBEs).
		The main mechanism for acquiring title to the land, which some have occupied for decades, are the land committees, where 100 to 200 families that live in a contiguous area elect about seven individuals to represent their community (the average size is 147 families).
		The urban land reform process is perhaps the single most important manifestation of participatory democracy in Venezuela today.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/venezuela/3475.html (2002 words)

	Revolutions of 1848: Popular Politics and the Revolutions of 1848
		However, the revolution is usually considered to have started with the February days in Paris.
		This is a fairly rough classification as revolutions are fluid and rapidly developing events in which these different things overlap and interact with each other, but we have to break the subject down into manageable elements.
		In most countries affected by revolution the speed with which revolution was ended meant that these elections did not form the start of a new type of political experience which could give rise to more clearly defined party programmes and constituencies of support.
	www.gla.ac.uk /centres/tltphistory/hcc/1848/coredocs/coredoc2.htm (4018 words)

	RevolutionaryLeft.com -> Where to start the revolution.
		Although, in Nepal, their revolution is under the communist flag, but is being led by peasants in absence of the proletariat.
		Also with urban revolution you get the factor of chaos on your side, if we struck in an urban area their would be widespread panic which if we used correctly could work out in our favor.
		The revolution in the third world would quickly spill out across borders into imperialist countries and then we could rely on the urban proletarian and rural poor to assist in the revolution in the imperialist world.
	www.revolutionaryleft.com /index.php?showtopic=35874 (3309 words)

	Urban Agriculture in Havana Cuba
		While Havana's urban agriculture has taken on many forms, ranging from private gardens (huertos privados) to state-owned research gardens (organicponicos), Havana's popular gardens (huertos populares) are the most widespread and accessible to the general public.
		As the title implies, the Special Period is not perceived as a normal state of affairs, but rather an interval between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the lifting of the US embargo.
		As an extensionist explained: "It is important to create a culture to sustain the movement; horticultural clubs and other community efforts do this." Such efforts at the community level are important in that development solutions are typically more sustainable when they involve and empower the local people.
	www.cityfarmer.org /cuba.html (1408 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Regeneration \| Cities to lead quiet revolution
		A national centre dedicated to building sustainable communities is part of a government scheme to modernise urban planning.
		Places that were once the engine room of the industrial revolution, employing millions in mills, factories, ports and shipyards, are learning new ways to create wealth in the global economy where brain has replaced brawn."
		An urban renaissance was gathering pace, and civic confidence was rising.
	society.guardian.co.uk /regeneration/story/0,7940,1195733,00.html?=rss (616 words)

	Urban Revolution - Implications of the Urban Task Force Report
		We welcome the urban white paper and government commitment to see changes in the way we develop the urban environment.
		Because an urban lifestyle is unknown to many people it is not often requested in conventional public consultation
		Availability of good value urban living space, speciality shops and independently run café/restaurants in mixed use schemes funded by the private sector all demand on subsidies or planning obligations.
	www.urbaneye.co.uk /indexa.htm (894 words)

	urban revolution -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The term urban revolution was introduced by V. Gordon Childe, an Australian archaeologist.
		During the Industrial Revolution old cities in Great Britain and new ones in North America mushroomed rapidly in size and became congested and slum-ridden.
		Urban development grew rapidly during the Roman period.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074446 (865 words)

	Photos of Cuban Urban Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		What follows are some of the highlights of the urban farms we visited.
		I have not gone into the history of urban agriculture here as that is adequately covered by other articles on our site.
		Norma is one of nine staff horticulturists; most other urban farms have one or two.
	www.cityfarmer.org /CubaSpringPhotos.html (1174 words)

	Organic Farming and Urban Garden Revolution in Cuba.
		Organic Farming and Urban Garden Revolution in Cuba.
		One of Cuba's responses to the shock was to develop "urban agriculture,"
		Urban agriculture is now a "major element of the Havana cityscape," the Food
	www.purefood.org /Organic/cubagarden.cfm (750 words)

	THE URBAN REVOLUTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		What is the difference between an urban center and a village, other than an obvious difference in the size of their populations?
		This is an attractive approach, but suffers from the fact that it does not explain why some people, such as the Sumerians, responded to their challenge and many others living under similar conditions did not.
		It may be simpler to regard the Urban Revolution as simply a continuation of processes underway in the villages of late neolithic times.
	www.ku.edu /kansas/medieval/100/sections/04urban.html (1410 words)

	Game Revolution Review Page - Game Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At first glance, Urban Chaos seems to be an interesting mixture of Fighting Force and Syndicate Wars; take a beat-'em-up engine and mix with a story of gangs uniting and taking over the city.
		Urban Chaos starts off with a killer intro movie, bringing you right up to speed with the story.
		It's New Years Eve, turn of the millennium, but that doesn't stop the street gang known as the Wildcats from wreaking havoc and generally making things a little uncomfortable for the citizens of Union City.
	www.gamerevolution.com /oldsite/games/sony/action/urban_chaos.htm (785 words)

	From revolution to urban revitalization \| Summer 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Haven then had to suffer through the disastrous urban renewal plan initiated by eight-term Democratic mayor Richard C. Lee.
		Neighborhoods were razed to build the six-lane Oak Street Connector—6,500 housing units were torn down, and only 951 were built in their place.
		The uneasy coexistence of sensitive, localized urban revitalization and a renewed emphasis on mass-produced consumerism has placed the future of the Elm City back in flux.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/frosh/2000/city/p15newhaven.html (1247 words)

	Revolution Manufacturing's Urban Lab hosts the "Sweaty Crack Handrail Games"
		The action begins at 7pm at Revolution Manufacturing - 1185 North 1200 West Orem, Utah — along side 1-15.
		Before a packed crowd of crazed, over-heated fans boarders will be judged on difficulty, creativity, fluidity, aggression, style and control.
		Revolution Manufacturing's "Sweaty Crack Handrail Games" is an open event and free of charge, capped at 50 entries.
	www.snowboardermag.com /news/swtcrk (261 words)

	The Urban Green Revolution(Features) Leif Utne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In June, mayors from around the world gathered in San Francisco to draw up an ambitious blueprint for the green city of tomorrow.
		They also compared notes on new experiments in mass transit, energy use, and other aspects of urban life that will need to be transformed if cities are to lower their impact on climate change and environmental decline.
		Associate editor Leif Utne attended the event, which he calls the moment when a quietly growing green-cities movement revealed itself to be a global phenomenon.
	www.utne.com /pub/2005_131/features/11764-1.html (98 words)

	Urban Presence: Revolution & Renewal
		Tony was - as usual - in turn inspiring, provocative, hilarious, challenging and outrageous, and left us all buzzing with ideas and fresh vision.
		His two talks were relevant not just to those in urban ministry, but to anyone who wants to see the Church being Good News in local communities and in our society.
		Tony is an outspoken advocate for justice and equality, especially for children who are "at risk" in cities, and has helped establish schools and universities in several developing countries.
	www.urbanpresence.org.uk /pages/revren.html (407 words)

	Venezuela’s Quiet Housing Revolution: Urban Land Reform
		Urban Land Committee delegates from nearly all Venezuelan states met on August 30th for the first time in Caracas to receive land titles and project funds.
		An Urban Land Committee representative presents her group's project to President Chavez.
		Statement in Support of the Documentary Film “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1551 (2439 words)

	Bogotá's Urban Revolution
		The once polluted and congested city, where many people were unable to reach vital destinations, now has one of the world's most efficient and accessible transportation networks.
		The International Seminar will include elected officials, technical advisors, academics, representatives from international institutions, urban planners, transportation specialists, environmental experts, and representatives from civic groups.
		Many of the world's leading experts in transportation planning and urban design will give presentations on international efforts to improve public transportation, provide bicycle and pedestrian facilities, promote better use of public space and reduce automobile dependence.
	www.itdp.org /PR/bogota_rev.html (555 words)

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