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Learn About Urban Life Life in a Commercial City Trudee Romanek Company www.crabtreebooks.com

Author: Trudee Romanek Editor-in-Chief: Lionel Bender Editors: Simon Adams and Molly Aloian Proofreader: Adrianna Morganelli Project coordinator: Kathy Middleton Photo research: Ben White Designer and makeup: Ben White Production coordinator: Amy Salter Production: Kim Richardson Prepress technician: Amy Salter Consultant: Amy Caldera, M.Sc., Elementary School Publishing Consultant, Writer, and Former Teacher Main cover photo: Residents mix with tourists in the famous commercial district Times Square in mid-town Manhattan. Inset cover photo: A boy gets help with his homework on the balcony of the family's apartment in the city. This book was produced for Company by Bender Richardson White. Photographs and reproductions: Bigstockphoto.com: pages 1 (C. Penler), 4 (GreenstockCreative), 13 (J. Group), 28 (Gary718 H.Shi), 29 (Barsik) Dreamstime: cover main image (Gary718); cover inset (Orangeline) Getty Images: pages 16, 18 (Jon Riley), 19 (AFP), 20, 26 istockphoto.com: Headline image (Natalie Helbert), pages 5 (Heng Kong Chen), 8 (David Liu), 12 (Wolfgang Amri), 27 (Scott Lomenzo) Topfoto: page 14 (Ullsteinbild) www.shutterstock.com: pages 6 (Jeremy Richards), 7 (Ykm 2008), 9 (Sergio Z), 10 (Gary Blakeley), 11 (Amy Nichole Harris), 15 (Andrew F. Kazmierski), 17 (Tomasz Szymanski), 21 (Philip Lange), 22 (Beee), 23 (Kenneth Summers), 24 (Steve Broer), 25 (Andrew F. Kazmeirski) Acknowledgments: Special thanks to Peter Kszan, resident of New York City, for verifying information about his city. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Romanek, Trudee Life in a commercial city / Trudee Romanek. (Learn about urban life) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7787-7391-7 (bound).--isbn 978-0-7787-7401-3 (pbk.) 1. City and town life--juvenile literature. 2. Central business districts--juvenile literature. 3. New York (N.Y.)-- Juvenile literature. I. Title. II. Series: Learn about urban life HT152.R64 2010 j307.76 C2009-906246-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Romanek, Trudee. Life in a commercial city / Trudee Romanek. p. cm. -- (Learn about urban life) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7787-7401-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7787-7391-7 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper) 1. City and town life--juvenile literature. 2. City and town life-- New York--New York--Juvenile literature. 3. Central business districts--juvenile literature. 4. New York (N.Y.)--Juvenile literature. I. Title. II. Series. HT152.R66 2010 307.76--dc22 2009042421 Company Printed in the USA/122009/BG20091103 www.crabtreebooks.com 1-800-387-7650 Copyright 2010 CRABTREE PUBLISHING COMPANY. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or be transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Company. In Canada: We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities. Published in Canada 616 Welland Ave. St. Catharines, Ontario L2M 5V6 Published in the United States PMB 59051 350 Fifth Avenue, 59 th Floor New York, New York 10118 Published in the United Kingdom Maritime House Basin Road North, Hove BN41 1WR Published in Australia 386 Mt. Alexander Rd. Ascot Vale (Melbourne) VIC 3032

Contents Urban Areas 4 Everyday Needs 6 Being Big 8 Districts and Zones 10 Welcome to New York 12 Manhattan 14 Doing Business 16 In the Office 18 Getting Around 20 Running the City 22 Through the Year 24 Changing Lifestyle 26 Commerce Around the World 28 Facts and Figures 30 Glossary 31 Further Information and Index 32

Urban Areas Do you live in a rural area or an urban area? Rural areas are places such as a small town, where few people live. A small town may have just a store, a church, some houses, and farmers fields. Urban areas are places where many people live. Cities and large towns are urban areas. They have more buildings than rural areas. Those buildings are often tall and close together. 4 Vancouver is one of Canada s largest urban areas. It lies on the west coast of the country. It has many tall buildings in its city center.

Life in urban communities, as in Chicago or Dallas in the United States, is fast and noisy. People fill shopping malls like this one and cars rush through the streets. Urban areas are busy places made up of many communities. A community is a group of people that live, work, and play together. Each urban community has a center with stores, businesses, and schools. Houses and apartments surround that center. Beyond these are the suburbs the outer areas of cities. Suburbs are mostly filled with houses. 5

Everyday Needs People everywhere need some basic items in order to live. They require food, clean water, and shelter. They need energy to heat their homes and cook their meals. These things are resources. In rural communities, most resources are close by. Some families have their own well for water. Nearby farms provide meat, vegetables, milk, and eggs for the town. 6 A crowded street in Delhi, India. It can sometimes be difficult to provide food, water, and shelter for millions of people living in large cities.