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structures. Daniel typified the new kind of architect and planner who felt that large scale and rational planning initiatives were need of the hour. Under the McMillan Plan that was unveiled in 1902 Daniel was hired to make a fresh plan for the mall area in Washington D.C., which he got demolished to create the “Federal Triangle” of the day. The success was allowed to repeat itself and Cleveland, Ohio was the next to get a makeover under ‘City Beautiful Movement’, where Daniel Burnham, Arnold…

2.2.4 Definitions of Self Help Groups Following are the definitions of Self Help Groups 1. Rao (1994) defined SHGs as a means of raising the claim and making capacity of the rural poor for reaching out to such agencies as they are willing to work with and which can provided them with additional production resources. It also implies the development of their bargaining power to an extent that such agencies cannot culturally impose their conditions and regulations upon the rural poor as…

local, regional and national government and relevant stakeholders manage, plan and finance urban environment (Devas et al., 2004). Cote (2014) argued that urban governance is responsible for 1. Developing the spatial and social character of urban areas, 2. Providing and ensuring equal distribution of public services 3. Allocation of resources and environmental monitoring 4. Promoting public in decision-making. Such responsibilities are especially imperative at contemporary times as many…

rural to urban areas for the facilities they can get there and because of the industrialization in Oman. Rural urban transformation and urban growth is also mentioned in this assignment. I have briefly discussed urban growth and its affect on the country’s economy and development. I got all the information from Google and from the case study which was on Muscat. The goal of this assignment was to understand what actually urbanization is and why people migrate from rural to urban areas as well as…

communicable diseases. Some of these diseases are easily transmitted to people through the movement of urbanization. Urbanization is the movement of people from an area with little development, like villages to small or big cities with good development. This movement of people could lead to several communicable diseases especially in areas of large population. In this assignment, I am discussing the impacts of urbanization on communicable diseases. Urbanization can facilitate the spread of…

Reflection essay Habraken – SAR method of analysis Strengths This method of urban analysis looks at the tissue or an urban fabric in two major components, namely buildings and spaces. So a complex tissue is analyzed by looking at it in terms of buildings and spaces. These buildings and spaces are further seen as either thematic or non thematic. When spaces or buildings follow certain rules which repeats itself to form a tissue, then those buildings and space are termed as thematic spaces. Those…

rudimental understanding of the phenomena “population”. What is population? Population is the whole number of people inhabiting a city, country or area. Population in my opinion is likened to an engine in a car in such a way that as a car can’t work without its engine, that’s the same way a country can’t function without its population. Nigeria, officially known as the Federal Republic of Nigeria, located on the western coast of Africa has a population estimated at 169.2 million as of the…

4. The goal of affordable housing is a major issue in NYC. Choose a specific site of affordable housing, as mentioned in Lassner-Bloom text. Visit it and discuss its origin and development. New York city certainly has an affordable housing crisis. Mayor De Blasio has made affordable housing a top priority of his administration. He has tried to combat the problem by renovating run down buildings that would otherwise have been torn down. As a result, the efforts have created hundreds of…

impractical. For example, at discharge times from offices, railways underground stations, airport terminals, theatres, shopping malls and departmental stores. The escalator's primary attribute is its ability to move large numbers of people at once from one area to another. People can move both upward as well as downward when a pair of escalators are typically deployed next to each other. Escalators are effective when used as a means of guidance and circulation. In a complex transport situation,…

The design elements in the three scenes by Serlio, tragic, comic and satiric that are relevant to contemporary street design in Western Canada would be its neighbourhoods and central business district. The neighbourhoods would relate to the comic stage, which involves private houses and apartments that occupy citizens such as average families, storeowners, professionals and others similar individuals in their homes and on their streets. The comic street view is lined with mixed-use buildings…