Bullhead City

The Tenderloin. Not the type of meat, but the neighborhood that I call home. Tenderloin, San Francisco. The so called “hood,” the place with the highest crime rates and homelessness within the city. From robbery to aggravated assault, it all existed. I grew up in this environment and yet I embraced every bit of it. Yes, I eventually realized that I lived in this neighborhood because of my family’s financial status, but because of my status I had been inspired to go to school and further engage…

New urbanism is increasingly applied to revitalize diverse urban neighborhoods. It seeks to foster place identity, sense of community and environmental sustainability. New urbanist’s urban projects involve a mix of single-family and multi-family housing, a streetscape that encourages pedestrian use, and some form of public space. It supports creating a provision of range of housing prices and housing types in each community which will “bring people of diverse ages, race, and incomes into daily…

The love and fascination for street photography stems from the veracity of the genre. Street photography is romanticized as a photographer who roams the cities and takes snapshots of the everyday interactions and situations. The result of this quest, is a compilation of honest documents that hold growing importance over time. This adventure however, no longer fully captures the sole expression of street photography. As the medium of photography shifted from document to the fine art, the genre of…

other which may include race, gender or religion, for example. The total population for Green Bay is 104,057. There is a lot of cultural diversity in the city of Green Bay, with a mixture of all races varying in amounts throughout the city. These people vary from caucasian, black, asian and hispanic with all of them contributing to the city to make it unique and full of diverse cultures. suburbanstats.org/population/wisconsin/how-many-people-live-in-green-bay as of early 2015. . Green Bay's…

of a city neighborhood. Although this process takes decades to change the demographics of the urban development, it changes neighborhood travel characteristics and transportation planning/infrastructure requirements. Should transportation engineers care about gentrification while designing roads, bridges, highways, freeways? If we (transportation engineers) build it would they have to leave? Are transportation engineers creating the cycle of gentrification by developing master plan of a city?…

employing Blacks in the Inner city. According to Caroline May an author of Brett Bart newsletter stated “While the economy added jobs and the national unemployment rate was relatively unchanged, the African American unemployment rate remained more than twice as high as the white unemployment rate and nearly double the national unemployment rate, according to Labor Department data released Friday”. (May, 2016) When it comes to blacks being unemployed in the Inner City, theory guides the…

Urbanization is the increase of population living in cities. “Cities developed in areas where resources such as coal, iron, water and rail roads were available for manufacturing. The more factories that developed in favourable locations, the larger cities would grow.” (Armstrong, Monty, David Daniel, Abby Kanarek, and Alexandra Freer. Cracking the AP World History Exam. N.P.: N.P., n.d. Print.) The reason…

Disorganization Theory of Criminology The Prevalence of Crime I urban areas as compared to Rural areas 1. Introduction When it comes to the social disorganization theory, it focuses more about the influence of the society and the environment to the increase in the criminal activity. In that case, an individuals ' neighborhood is a prime factor towards shaping that person to get involved in illegal activities (Borski & Harold, 1995). The immediate environment may but pose an immediate danger…

The definition of a city may seem like it would be simple and to the point. The work of several demographers, archaeologists, and philosophers proves that the understanding of a city requires a thorough analysis. E.B. White, Kingsley Davis, Gordon Childe, Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Jackson and Robert Bruegman have their own understandings of what a city is. White has a thought-provoking idea of a city, especially in the way he describes his visit to New York City. He feels that New York is not…

statistics are not only outrageous, but also unacceptable. Even in the early twentieth century people had begun to figure out what was necessary in order to increase the efficiency of traffic flow throughout large cities, such as New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, which were the main cities first exposed to the Jitney Bus. The first “Jitney”, created by L.P. Draper in Los Angeles, was at first a simple offer from one man to another for a five cent ride to go a short distance. In less than a…