City-state

In northeast Finney County, 27 miles from Garden City, sits a house with wooden siding and a stone shed with a metal roof. To those that passing by it is a common scene in western Kansas. Though the house is fairly new, this shed is nearly one hundred and thirty years old. Though now it is used as a place for storing and repairing farm equipment, it was once a schoolhouse for the town of Eminence. Not only is the town of Eminence gone but also is the county it was a part of. Both are now…

project a new beginning. The strategy of rebuilding has not been successful. Eliminating slums or halting the decaying of neighborhoods in cities has not been accomplished. This concept of salvaging continues the failing method in a never ending cycle. However, there are proper steps that can be taken to reverse the process for decay. The lack of involvement from city planners on the decaying issue has created what is known as “The Slums.” Jacobs’ solutions include development at…

(Here I am exploring sustainability in a different way, one I do not usually advocate for) With more than half of the world's population now living in cities we need to let go of the conventional inferences we make about sustainability. Instead of the common beliefs which claim sustainability comes at the cost of absolute reduction and diminishment of our current ways of life as we know them, we instead need to accept a more modern take on what is more sustainable practice as a species. The pros…

Why are there slums, and what can we do about it? Slums are a worldwide phenomenon being present virtually in every region of the world, and having an immense diversity among them. Mike Davis and Robert Sampson are two authors who approached this issue on their own respective books, from a rather different perspective, but maintaining the topic of urban poverty as the overarching object of analysis. Davis directly addresses the slums as a global issue, giving different characteristics that are…

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…

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…

grown by about 440 million to 622 million in 2009” (p.1). In the rapid-growing urban population, more than half of the migrants are from rural areas, some of whom obtained the urban household registration, but the vast majority of people still in the state of the floating population. In general, these migrants have to give up the right to use…

and spread their traditions in the form of recipes and shopping accessories. Enoteca Regionale Palatium, Colline Emiliane, etc are famous restaurants in Tridente. 4. Colosseum to Capitol Hill Colosseum is an amphitheatre built at the centre of the city of Rome. Needless to say it is the most popular of the Roman monuments and most people around the world know about it to a certain extent. Annually millions of visitors come to watch this monument which justifies its construction and effort. The…

How could you expect anything to happen in a city that is considered lifeless? In Algeria, there is a city called Oran that is soulless due to the ordinariness of the people and their lifestyle. The city, itself, lacks in anything interesting or pleasing to the eye. In the story, the town is even described as ugly. Everything soon changes when the city gets struck with the plague. In the beginning in Part One, it begins to depict how the rats started to captivate the lives of the people living…

Romanticism was an extreme response to the speedy change of Industrialization. A time where people were moving away from the beautiful country side to the city to keep up with the growing economy. It was a change for the worst to a lot of people. The quick change made it hard for people to adapt. Due to the change of population distribution social changes happened, disease became rampant and people were put under pressure they’ve never experienced. This is bound to make people irritate people…