The middle -class’s flight from the cities has created de facto segregation between the impoverished and the financially comfortable. Lawmakers find that running on the platform of “fixing poverty” is not appealing to the majority of their middle-class constituents. The media turns a blind eye to America’s poverty epidemic because poverty does not excite viewers or garner favorable ratings. Cities are now bastions of poverty, the concentration of the impoverished in cities began to skyrocket in the years following World War Two. The sharp increase of poor families living in cities is directly correlated to the middle class moving out of cities and into the suburbs.
Readers have shifted their attention to online media sources, causing a decrease in print circulation and advertising revenue. Though there has been a rise in online advertising, the revenue is not increasing fast enough to fill the gap left by decreased print revenue (Economist). The shift towards digital media has raised other concerns that may impact the profitability of news corporations. Journalists and news organizations rely on credibility for readership and business. However, there is a general lack of trust in information obtained from the Internet (Credibility).
In 1994 more people made the trip to a casino then to a ball park (Popkin). The casinos are attracting so much of American's dollars that they spent less on books, music albums and attractions (Reed). The people are spending less money outside of the casino. Which is not helping the vast majority of local businesses. This is what is most often overlooked by the city.
Of the year the number of vehicles is increasing. In urban communities prefer to use private vehicles to travel than by public transport. This is then further aggravate congestion in urban areas. Seventh attitude less disciplined and less responsible than the users of the road. For example, road users who break through signs traffic signs and public transport drivers were lower and raise the passengers own wishes.
City decline is a viscous cycle: people and businesses leave (in our case due to deindustrialization), this causes a decrease in tax revenue and the quality of the environment, this leads to tax increases and service cuts which results in even more people and businesses leaving. The decline of cities cannot be narrowed down to one factor, but we can find the main influences. Decline is the combination of many different economic and social factors that can transform a once vibrant metropolis into a desolate dangerous wasteland. Pennsylvania was where this country began, the place where the founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence and years later the Constitution. Pennsylvania’s biggest cities are Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
[and] technological changes” also heavily contributed to the fiscal crisis during the 1970s (Tabb 324). The exodus of jobs and higher skilled workers coupled with the presence of a large unemployed population in New York City created a declining tax base. Additionally, the general devolution of the federal government interest in local politics and the general shift in considering the urban fiscal crisis as more an individual problem rather than a systemic problem, also mean less funding from the federal government to help balance the city’s budget. During this process, however, the degradation of power and authority was relayed from the federal to state. Cities still remained responsible for the balancing their budget without having much authority (Eisinger 309).
The more densely populated and more heterogeneous a community is, the more accentuated characteristics can be associated with urbanism. Urbanism causes decrease in per capita, and promotes urban violence, political instability, crime and aggressive behavior. Rapid population growth in urban areas also perpetuates poverty. Another major issue being created by this social problem is the breaking of the traditional family structure. Our cities are not working well!
SYMPTOMS Symptoms that show downtown London is in need of revitalization include; A general migration out of the downtown core to the suburbs. Large companies moved out of London to larger urban centres that could provide.... The publics view of downtown was dirty, their philosophy was downtown was "dirty with nothing going on. PROBLEM Creation of highway networks outside the city and subsequent growth of suburban communities transformed the way citizens worked lived and spent their leisure time. Downtown businesses closed or moved to malls inducing a reduction in downtown shopping and overall downtown commercial traffic.
Sprawl is even less attractive to urban residents who are left behind and involuntarily subsidize the outward migration through their taxes. The sprawl debate has opened social fault lines across the nation. Developers and environmentalists spar over sprawl in court. Suburban leaders guard their bounty of businesses and jobs while city leaders clamor for a share. Inner-ring suburbanites hunker down to preserve their American dream while outer-ring suburbanites demand their slice of the good life.
According to Building Self Control, ego-depletions effect on consumers is seen in the strength model, which “assumes that a consumer’s ability to control urges to engage in impulsive buying can become temporarily depleted as a result of pr... ... middle of paper ... ...ower prices bringing down the value of homes. Consequently, less money is spent to purchases the houses, which stops new investments in the construction of homes. The lack of new investments brings unemployment for workers in the construction field, thus leaving them with less money to spend on other businesses. This begins a cycle in which everyone has less money to spend, creating an economic crisis. This is exactly what occurred in the economic crisis of 2008.