City councils

compared to the Cities on the Indus. Cities on the Indus was the most advanced compared to Mesopotamia, China, and Pyramids on the Nile. They had advanced grid systems, their own form of plumbing and, they thrived in trading. For example, they used grid systems for traveling, they used plumbing and sewage systems in their homes, and they traded goods such as cotton. One of the most remarkable achievements of the Indus Valley people was their sophisticated city planning. The cities of the…

represents America in a way nothing else in the USA does. Literally traveling down this ancient highway is like traveling back in time in the twentieth century ; literally all you see down this blue highway is family owned stores and rural towns or cities what you wouldn't get driving down the interstate. This road represents the 1920's…

OOL focussed in social participation in order to solve community problems, this assumption find support on the theory of “Public Space Appropriation”, if the citizens get involved in their community problems and start to get out in the streets and improve their public spaces the levels of crime, drug addiction and insecurity will decrease. A good example is the macro mural of Palmitas, Pachuca, Hidalgo on 2015. With the highest rate of violence on Hidalgo, Palmitas agree to host the project of…

day and night. Small towns are way better and safer than big towns. Small towns are quieter, have less crime and have clearer and prettier skies. Small towns are better than big cities because there is less noise. In big towns it is often hard to fall asleep because of the terrible noise outside. In the poem “Big City Noise” it states “People do not seem to hear the noise during the day. But at night, the noise makes it hard to sleep.”…

commerce because the sand is traveling to the other half of the hourglass. Next, I have represented medieval time period for the broken down village because the medieval time period was the dark age of Europe. After that, I represented Renaissance for the city with the most houses and the field because the Renaissance was the blossoming…

Moving from the suburbs into the city is a big change. Less traffic, better parking, and more space are just a few of the things that draw people away from the bustle of urban life to the burbs. However, moving into the city opens up a wealth of opportunities for employment and adventures of all sorts. If you’re planning a move to the city, here are a few things to keep in mind. Downsize In most circumstances, moving into the city means moving into a place with less square footage, making…

Main Street America states that, “parking is cited as the number one problem among cities and towns throughout the nation.” In the article, Solving the Parking Puzzle, Main Street America discusses the various ways in which towns can effectively implement parking polices and designs that will maximize the efficiency of the parking systems, as well as, customer convenience (National Main Street Center, 2013). First, is it important to conduct a parking survey. By understanding the actual parking…

For this paper I attended two events, one large scale and one small-scale. For the large-scale event I attended Mahler’s Symphony no. 6 in A minor and for the small-scale event I attended Seraphic Fire- Mozart: Requiem. I attended Mahler’s Symphony no. 6 in A minor first. For this event there were not any issues with this venue. The only drawbacks to this event were that the tickets were pretty pricy and for this reason I had to attend this event alone. For me to get a pair of seats together the…

The city of St. Louis has had a number of problems throughout the years; however the issues were balanced with prosperity. Nevertheless, there was a calling to fix the issues the city was dealing with and in 1917 the city of St. Louis called upon Harland Bartholomew to help analyze their problems. While the 1947 city plan was created thirty years after Bartholomew’s original plan, a number of the same ideas were being discussed. The 1917 and 1947 plan has a large number of similarities, and a…

are saddened with loving the nature part of Bend, but not having the big city feel they want. There is no clear way to make everyone happy, but, if you could make parts of Bend feel like a big city, while make others have a smaller town, and keep other parts of the town the same. Then that might just be the best way to make everyone happy. If we could find a way to make different parts of Bend feel like a small town, big city, and a medium size town, the family that moved all the way from…