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  • Pope Urban VIII (April 1568 – July 29, 1644), born Maffeo Barberini ... As a nepotist and spendthrift, Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet ...
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  • 1864 – February 7, 1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the founders ... amp; A. Morris. 1996. The Reportage of Urban Culture: Robert Park and the ...
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  • remembered for his vision of contemporary urban life and its accompanying ... Later his signature works would become more urban in subject. His ...
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  • . Koreans view a common language and culture as important elements in ... South Korea's urban areas experienced rapid growth as farmers ...
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  • the truest representatives of Fulani culture. ==History== ... people to be identified as a settled, urban–based community, as opposed ...
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  • along basically racial lines. These include Urban Gospel (sometimes referred ... of Gospel music varies according to culture and social context. It is ...
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  • with a deep understanding of Western culture. He was also a consistent ... After receiving a B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton ...
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  • Ukiyo-e could be mass-produced and were intended for the urban middle ... " refers to the lively and colorful culture that bloomed in the urban ...
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  • states in India's northeast, has a culture that is quite distinct from ... faith has transformed Nagaland's culture in a unique way compared ...
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  • The Accra Metropolitan Area has an urban population of over 2 million ... sectors. This contributed to high rural-urban migration to the city, and ...
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  • A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and its follow-up ... A Study in Contemporary American Culture was published in 1929 and ...
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  • brought turbulence to Russia's urban centers, and the Narodnik ... in addressing Russian peasants and their culture. They spent much time learning ...
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  • functional buildings. With this rise in urban artistic expression comes ... Urbanization is the growing number of people in a society living in ...
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  • numbers and threatened the loss of their culture. Those who have been assimilated ... century furthered the decline in Nenets culture, with the creation of collective ...
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  • oversight, young children's street culture often struggles to fully ... Playgrounds were an integral part of urban culture in the USSR. In the 1970s ...
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  • believed to have been created by the Nasca culture between 200 B.C.E. and 700 ... design and construction by the ancient culture, and in efforts to decipher ...
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  • shorthand form Tana until 1977. The larger urban area surrounding the city ... to the south and west. The area of the urban municipality is 30.4 square ...
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  • #039;s leader in politics, education, culture, and intellectual thought ... African immigrants have many strongholds in urban areas. ...
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  • emerged from a deep Victorian concern with urban poverty which gave rise to ... initiatives directed toward assuaging urban poverty and increasing education ...
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  • The urban area of Papeete had a total population of 127,635 inhabitants ... in Papeete, celebrating indigenous culture, and the commemoration of ...
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  • Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... expresses the traditions of a particular culture. There is no clear-cut definition ...
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  • groom at the time of marriage. The same culture may simultaneously practice ... In Chinese culture, an auspicious date is selected to Ti Qin (literally ...
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  • into the region became crystallized in the urban centers of Oboda, Mamphis ... represents a very different kind of culture than the original Bedouins ...
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  • [[Image:Melbourne docklands urban renewal.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Melbourne ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...
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  • social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. of people. He established the Ethical Culture Society which initiated ...
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  • on the banks of Indus River. The Indus culture blossomed over the centuries ... from noise, odors, and thieves. That urban plan included the world& ...
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  • has deep historical roots to Russian culture as a whole. The oldest city ... The preeminence of Veliky Novgorod in Russian culture is represented ...
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  • arises, in part, from Korea's conservative culture that discouraged many Korean women from attending co-ed universities. Ewha's new motto ...
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  • and mobilized thousands of students and urban youth to spearhead the attack ... West, or represented traditional Chinese culture or religion. Hundreds of ...
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  • Ethical Culture is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...
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  • and refugees from neighboring Liberia, and urban migration. Burglaries commonly ... Abidjan) and the SOTU (Society of Urban Transportation) ensure regular ...
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  • and hallmarks which included permanent or urban settlements, agriculture ... the earliest people were of the Clovis culture, with sites dating from ...
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  • genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who ... music and all aspects of African American culture are celebrated during Black ...
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  • |right|250px|The Indus Valley Civilization had an advanced urban culture ... A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture is evident ...
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  • * The prize for the second best production achievement by an urban ... * The second prize for production achievement in Urban Transport during ...
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  • most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States ... of wholesale ghettos, decay, middle-class urban flight, and blight. Beginning ...
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  • The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ... The urban area of Tianjin is found in the south-central part of the ...
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  • of many to preserve the Catholic faith and culture in an environment of Protestantism ... to maintain the Catholic faith and culture, combating the perceived ...
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  • B.C.E., making it one of the earliest known urban centers. It has yielded a ... cities of Ur and Eridu as a cradle of urban culture. Its prehistory reaches ...
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  • material from which to study their culture. Little has been found from ... for the Incas, were absorbed into their culture. The city was then renamed ...
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  • *urban/collegiate folk groups *singer-songwriters *the revival of North ... of the 1930s and 1940s. The first of the urban folk vocal groups was the ...
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  • shortages. As food became more scarce for urban workers, some migrated from ... While almost all the fighting in the Civil War occurred outside urban ...
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  • their tricks down stair sets and on other urban obstacles–they were no ... Skateboarding was, at first, tied to the culture of surfing. As skateboarding ...
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  • identified with the Bronze Age Andronovo culture at the Caspian Sea. Their ... The Indo-Aryan migration dates from before the Mature Harappan culture ...
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  • the center of a major civilization or culture which also bears its name ... the Teotihuacáno view of the universe. Its urban grid is aligned to precisely ...
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  • exist between men and women, between urban and rural areas, and between ... == Culture == Jilin's culture is part of a culture of Northeast ...
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  • Zealand, the country's second largest urban area and the most populous ... Like many cities, Wellington's urban area extends well beyond ...
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  • Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ... Urban planning involves not just the science of designing efficient ...
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  • noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad ... spaces. Mumford wrote critically of urban culture believing the city to ...
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  • Although urban settlements in the Dhaka area date back to the seventh ... == Urban layout == Dhaka With an area of 4.2|km2|sqmi|1 ...
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