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is characterized by high human population density and vast human-built features. Thus rises the need of relief spaces in the dense urban matrix. They can be any kind of open spaces or water body, green belts-manmade or natural. Urban Morphology of cities show the gradual decrease and decease of open spaces with the process of urbanization. Open spaces are mandatory for the sustenance of an urban area. They provide recreational and relaxation spaces, platform for social interactions and cultural…

1 Background Over the years, the pursuit for good living by many underprivileged Ghanaian youth in our societies has resulted in an increasing menace of street hawking. Street hawking is the act of selling retail goods directly on busy streets in a city/town, and is a major phenomenon in developing countries around the world. According to the Oxford dictionary, a hawker is a person who travels about selling goods, typically advertising them by shouting. Street hawking, also known as street…

that you can do something about it now. The discipline of planning and architecture is a very important discipline given the context of our present capital of J&K State, Srinagar. The city is rapidly urbanizing, people are leaving their villages and migrating to cities in large numbers. When they migrate to cities, one of the common problems they face is of housing. Urban housing, especially for the urban poor will become a major challenge in the future. If we do not plan for the future…

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…

Solution to overpopulation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Resettling migrants in suburban areas Imagine yourself together with three other people suffocating in one meter of land . That will be the first step for you to imagine how stifling it would be for the people who are living in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. From a promising land that has high potential for full development, this metropolis has become overpopulated due to the “high level of unregistered rural migration” as well as “ the spread…

transport system based on buses that is one of the many initiatives adopted to improve the quality of life in the city. There has been a rapid economic and demographic growth in the last few decades which has transformed the city into an important industrial and commercial center and a center for transporting and processing agricultural goods. It is one of the fastest growing cities of Brazil. Curitiba’s public transport system has developed over the span of 20 years. During the peak of…

attached. Monorails are classified into large, medium, and compact systems, depending on the size of the cars and the overall system scale. In order to meet the demands for cheap, extremely versatile urban transit system particularly common in regional cities around the world, the compact monorail system was developed as a simplified version of its larger counterpart, with a big reduction in size and weight of not only the rail cars, but also ground facilities, such as tracks, columns, and…

consideration the message they wanted to send across symbolically and physically. For example, O'Connell Street has probably the most public monuments situated on it, compared to the rest of Dublin or even Ireland, this was done purposely due to the fact that city planners were aware of the volume of public that would pass through that particular street in a day as it still does up to this date. It is also very important to state that the…

Rural The United States Census Bureau defines rural by first identifying two types of urban areas. Those areas are urbanized areas (UAs) with a population of 50,000 or more people, and urban clusters (UCs) with a population of at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people. Therefore, rural consists of all populations, housing, and territory that do not fall into the category of an urbanized area or an urban cluster (Geography, 2015). In the fact sheet titled Strengthening the Rural Economy - The…

and Sparta are both well-known cities that associated themselves with the Greeks and Greece. To this day most people can tell you at least were Sparta and Athens was located. The issue was that these two cities were major rivals and quite different. Sparta was very militaristic city that focused heavily on gaining more land and power for their city and for Greece. They required that all men join the military and help during wars. Sparta was known more as a laid back city that did worried about…