City Life Essay

One of the subjects we discussed in class that we really caught my attention is the difficulties people from Sub Sahara Africa and other third world countries have when it comes to compete with the products from the developed countries. I think this is a problem that affects not only the agriculture of the country, but it also affects the economy, and indirectly politic. Because of the low price of the imported products, it becomes more and more difficult for the farmer to provide for his family…

From afar, the city of San Ramon appears to be a quaint, suburban California city. However, the term “quaint” is not totally accurate. There are a multitude of beautiful homes, apartments, and schools being constructed, and have been for the last 2 decades, and there are plenty of lovely parks for people of all ages to enjoy as well. This is the community that I have spent all the years of my life; this is my hometown of San Ramon. East of the infamous metropolis of San Francisco, sits San Ramon…

result, more and more people move out of cities and live in suburban area. These suburban communities are called suburban sprawl. As most people live in the suburbia, merchants relocate themselves with their customers. Office and jobs stayed in the cities in the beginning. Gradually, offices moved out too because it is cheap for them to set up office at suburbia where closer to their workers and targeted clients. After families and jobs moving out, cities became empty and the population…

Jacklin Jones Urban Society Book Report Fall ‘15 Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City History is always changing and repeating itself. According to the Housing Act of 1954, it changed urban “redevelopment” into urban “renewal” and “conservation”. Therefore, this had shifted the focus to areas that is threatened by diseases and enlarged the constructions of the federal government to support beyond residential (Pattillo, 310). During several class discussions, we…

Carolina, in Florence County. I was raised in the small town of Lake City, South Carolina, which was established in the year of 1750. This town came into existence due to the fact it was on a road that ran between Kingstree to the south and Cheraw to the north. Later, there was a road placed between Georgetown and Camden adding to the cross of the older road, forming a crossroads. I have lived in Lake City, for majority of my life and as many others, wondered how the town ended up with such a…

conceived that lead us to better living. Modernist and Modern Architects were concerned with creating a Utopian City, and therefore a Utopian society. The idea they used to create a utopian city is not completely impossible. Along with advances in technology and while the technique was possible, they will maybe realize the utopian idea in the far future. The idea and concept of creating a utopian city from that Modernist and Modern Architects is a big influenced nowadays architect. In the 1516,…

In the nineteenth century, Paris became the epitome of the modern city, at least in the eyes of its upper class bourgeois elite and the tourists who visited the modern marvel. This “modern vision” of Paris was developed by people willing to look at and into their surroundings and themselves critically. In fact, it is those people looking at themselves and others in a critical sense and being conscious of the effect their way of seeing the world can have on others that drove who Parisian…

there tends to be no fluctuation in their average earnings. The article starts out by giving the reader insight into Stacey Calvin’s daily life as she resides in Atlanta. She often spends as much time commuting to her job as she works. Geography plays a major role in metropolitan areas because lower income households have difficulty overcoming the lay of the city, namely the extensive traffic and…

Urban Community and Lifestyle Urban communities are well developed areas where there is a large density of people living. Often an urban area is the region around a city and primarily consists of commercial buildings, houses, motorways, bridges, and railroads. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2010 there was 249,253,271 people living in urban areas, which is eighty-one percent of the U.S. population (2010 Census Urban and Rural Classification and Urban Area Criteria, n.d.). To gain…

It is true that for the economic growth, you have to give up somethings such as traffic, sky high housing market, and the pollutions. However, put local residents’ life and properties in the risk should not be an option. Although the HB40 prohibit the city government to regulate oil and gas companies’ activities since the damage of earthquake is small, the public still have a chance to correct it by legislate a new regulation on the state level. For example…