The role of city planning should be targeted and revolved around the city’s residents and not based around the business aspect. The residents of the city are a huge factor on the cities stability and protraction. Without the specific individuals playing their part in the city, the whole system will fall apart. The well being and mood of the resident have a huge impact on the city’s productivity. The factors that need to go into the city planning would have to be limiting gentrification and taking consideration of the individuals in the city.
The city needs to accumulate set revenue in order to maintain stability. Other than taxes, cities develop their infrastructures for new or incoming residents in order to increase wealth. City officials …show more content…
Earni Young talks about the issue with gentrification in his article, How Gentrification is Changing Philly. Young states that “in neighborhoods all around the city, longtime residents express fear of being forced out of their homes as waves of wealthier residents move in and spur property values to rise dramatically — a process known as gentrification” (Young). This correlates perfectly with Zukin and Lyle. By pushing the people out, the city is losing its infrastructure, you have less tenants and a smaller population in general. This in turn is hurting the city economically because you are spending money to draw few wealthier individuals, but you are loosing a lot of long-term residents. In order to prevent this issue from continuing, cities need to provide affordable housing for people of all classes so they are not losing the long term resident and new incoming …show more content…
Housing and public locations both need safety so people can feel comfortable in the city. In Jacobs’, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she makes the argument that people should feel more comfortable among one another, even if they’re strangers. She makes a point in her work, “Sidewalks, their bordering uses, and their users are active participants in the drama of civilization versus barbarism in cities”(Jacobs 1961). By this she is saying that busy foot-traffic and eyes on the streets are what keep a street safe. The idea of safety need to be included in the system of city planning to insure individuals that they can be safe in the city. By having this sense of community and safety present in the city, tourists are drawn more to the city. Specifically, Philadelphia’s natural museum and Rittenhouse square both have what Jacobs speaks of. They both the active members of the community that look after one another and they are always populated, discouraging
The city needs to accumulate set revenue in order to maintain stability. Other than taxes, cities develop their infrastructures for new or incoming residents in order to increase wealth. City officials …show more content…
Earni Young talks about the issue with gentrification in his article, How Gentrification is Changing Philly. Young states that “in neighborhoods all around the city, longtime residents express fear of being forced out of their homes as waves of wealthier residents move in and spur property values to rise dramatically — a process known as gentrification” (Young). This correlates perfectly with Zukin and Lyle. By pushing the people out, the city is losing its infrastructure, you have less tenants and a smaller population in general. This in turn is hurting the city economically because you are spending money to draw few wealthier individuals, but you are loosing a lot of long-term residents. In order to prevent this issue from continuing, cities need to provide affordable housing for people of all classes so they are not losing the long term resident and new incoming …show more content…
Housing and public locations both need safety so people can feel comfortable in the city. In Jacobs’, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she makes the argument that people should feel more comfortable among one another, even if they’re strangers. She makes a point in her work, “Sidewalks, their bordering uses, and their users are active participants in the drama of civilization versus barbarism in cities”(Jacobs 1961). By this she is saying that busy foot-traffic and eyes on the streets are what keep a street safe. The idea of safety need to be included in the system of city planning to insure individuals that they can be safe in the city. By having this sense of community and safety present in the city, tourists are drawn more to the city. Specifically, Philadelphia’s natural museum and Rittenhouse square both have what Jacobs speaks of. They both the active members of the community that look after one another and they are always populated, discouraging