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Research Paper– GGB05 – Urban Geography Topic: Urban Dwellers

This paper is examining on urban dwellings that are in the city where they have all the necessary access to resources for the residents in the downtown region due to the location where central business areas that have opportunities. The paper will look at the benefits of living in the urban dwelling and disadvantage of living in urban dwellings. This paper will examine some of the aspect of other countries like India is city was undesirable place for the residents because it was overpopulated and has traffic but compare to another city’s like Toronto they used urban stagy to build tall condominiums and desirable malls and streets to attract the residents in the Toronto, also tall condominiums were to fit the overcrowded population.

I argue that the residents live in suburban areas will not have access to shopping center closer proximity of their dwellings and they have to use car to get to their destination this will cause pollution however the advantage of living in urban dwelling areas will be commute time to their job destination and closer proximity to shopping centers so they don’t need to use car. The urban dwellings will be expensive, and the housing would be smaller size contrasting to suburban dwellings because suburban dwelling will be cheaper and contain the same quality as urban dwellings.  The urban dwellers will have access to public transpiration that is easier and have bus stops that are more frequent than suburban routs.

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