Detroit, the motor city, used to be the pinnacle of the American manufacturing industry.
The 1950’s and 1960’s was the root of our modern day cities. This period of urban planning in America was one of idealized visions of vast cities and great public works projects. The urban planning practices of this period were consistent with “segregated and dispersed” development throughout the city generating an unsustainable urban sprawl and socio-economic concentration into the suburbs. Over 60 years of this form of urban planning and development has resulted in a deteriorating American urban structure in which citizens are detached from the city, area inequality is present, and the vast urban sprawl is becoming too massive and disorderly for local …show more content…
A man in Rotterdam, Netherlands is the head of a small digital entrepreneurship company made up of data scientists and product designers. With the city’s recently released open data platform the small company is able to boost their business. The company recently built an app that aims to help small cafés and restaurants estimate their busy periods which would allow them to optimize stock and staff levels, as well as cut costs. The team uses data released from the weather institute, air traffic, and and port traffic to create a summary representation of the density and movements of the city populations. All of this information allows the company to produce an algorithm that can predict footfall in local areas within the …show more content…
The participation of the next generation of urban citizens could be the groundstone for the amelioration of the decaying institutions and urban sprawl plaguing cities today. At the turn of the 20th century, urban thinker Patrick Geddes proposed that the only way to solve urban problems then caused by mass urbanization was through a bottom-up approach, one based on full citizen participation. He believed that if we were to come to understand our urban structure as a complex system, individuals would realize the ways in which they could contribute to its rejuvenation. Evidence of this realization is quite prevalent today in the youth generation of urbanites. There is a great deal of evidence in American cities today that indicate much of the youth generation is rejecting the usage of cars and the suburban sprawl, instead adopting smartphone-based, public transit urban
The 1950’s and 1960’s was the root of our modern day cities. This period of urban planning in America was one of idealized visions of vast cities and great public works projects. The urban planning practices of this period were consistent with “segregated and dispersed” development throughout the city generating an unsustainable urban sprawl and socio-economic concentration into the suburbs. Over 60 years of this form of urban planning and development has resulted in a deteriorating American urban structure in which citizens are detached from the city, area inequality is present, and the vast urban sprawl is becoming too massive and disorderly for local …show more content…
A man in Rotterdam, Netherlands is the head of a small digital entrepreneurship company made up of data scientists and product designers. With the city’s recently released open data platform the small company is able to boost their business. The company recently built an app that aims to help small cafés and restaurants estimate their busy periods which would allow them to optimize stock and staff levels, as well as cut costs. The team uses data released from the weather institute, air traffic, and and port traffic to create a summary representation of the density and movements of the city populations. All of this information allows the company to produce an algorithm that can predict footfall in local areas within the …show more content…
The participation of the next generation of urban citizens could be the groundstone for the amelioration of the decaying institutions and urban sprawl plaguing cities today. At the turn of the 20th century, urban thinker Patrick Geddes proposed that the only way to solve urban problems then caused by mass urbanization was through a bottom-up approach, one based on full citizen participation. He believed that if we were to come to understand our urban structure as a complex system, individuals would realize the ways in which they could contribute to its rejuvenation. Evidence of this realization is quite prevalent today in the youth generation of urbanites. There is a great deal of evidence in American cities today that indicate much of the youth generation is rejecting the usage of cars and the suburban sprawl, instead adopting smartphone-based, public transit urban