City and town halls

Leeds is a city of contradictions. It juxtaposes modernity with a rich industrial history, the rich with the poor, and the natives with the immigrants. These contradictions can be seen in the different architectural styles around city, in the distribution of different groups of people within the city, and in the different purposes various buildings serve. There was a great diversity in the types of places I observed in Leeds, to the extent that areas like Hyde Park and areas like the city…

The Forgotten Town: Skamokawa After a busy week at work, a person would be more than willing to take a break from the hectic city life and go enjoy a weekend with their family somewhere quiet, but where could they go on such short notice and that wouldn't be too expensive for them? The perfect answer would be Skamokawa, WA. Even though not a lot of people heard about this town, it is still a great place to visit with ones family because Skamokawa seems like it is frozen in time with great…

Alien Attack! It was a typical day in Calm City, USA. A city where nothing unusual or important ever happens. Until one day, two telephone calls were made. The first call was from Andy, the local astronomer, who studied the stars because there was nothing else to do in Calm City. He called General Hardcore Hanley, “General!” he excitedly screamed. “I have just spotted bright lights dancing back and forth across the night sky,” Andy went on. “The brilliant blueish brownish lights…

t 's been a few years since I 've been to Clementon, so having the day off last Wednesday I took a ride up to see the town. In the 1970s I lived in an apartment on Blackwood-Clementon Road in Lindenwold and had a friend who lived on top of the Park Grill. The town had a distinct look, with its older buildings, pool hall, and feed store – something you don 't usually see at the mall. Most of my time there was spent drinking beer in the Park Grill or drinking beer and eating seafood at the Palm…

a small town, Mackay Idaho, with only five hundred people to a city with thousands of people was a completely different adventure. The transition was a huge experience for me because of the change in the environment, people, and school. I had much more experiences to see and do. When I arrived at Pocatello the environment changed completely from when I left my home town and arrived at college. Coming from a small town with only one store to get groceries, and school supplies, to a city where…

One of the cities I believe millennials love the most is Austin, Tx. That might sound weird considering the stereotypical millennial and the stereotypes surrounding Texas. Millennials are more liberal, artsy, young, hipster, nonreligious, and open to change, whereas Texas is stereotyped as old, southern, conservative, dogmatic, traditionalist, and pious protestant christian. So, why would a millennial think anything remotely related to Texas, let alone a Texas city, would be cool? Well, Austin,…

related to buildings or a city. One of the examples that can be considered as key embodiment of such empathy is in downtown Los Angeles architected by Frank O. Gehry, i.e., the Walt Disney Concert Hall. An intelligent strategy of inclusiveness and hybridization is led by the micro and macro design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. With its skyscrapers stretching to the side and with the central business district, on the edge of the ridge on Bunker Hill, the Walt Disney Concert Hall is perched in…

Individuals were trying to create a business for themselves in the town by divulging in the idea of a “self-made” man (Man, Lecture Sept. 3). Each individual store and business played a pivotal role in providing for the town. The image wanted to capture the essence of the town and it showed people that the town could provide for people’s needs. I think by showing that Dodge City had ammunition and firearm stores, it shows people that they could protect themselves, because during 1875 many…

Cities had a growing demand of industrial labour power. With the decline of the rural economy, factories had the labour they needed. Many people moved away from the countryside and “impoverished” rural town into cities which were “rapidly growing industrial centres” (Bonnell 2005). Most of the people who did move from the countryside and rural communities tended to be farmers, agricultural workers, and craftsmen. They left their homes in search of a better life. This rural town were plagued…

wiped out by it. Thriving worse in the cities and market places where there was the most human interactions take place and where most jobs were held, and even spreading to farmlands where human interaction was limited. The plague caused a major downfall in Europe’s society, killing off half of Europe’s population, killing farm animals and crops, and turning cities into ghost towns. Furthermore the plague ripped through villages and cities turning them to ghost towns, killing off entire…