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I was born in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania. This would definitely fall under the umbrella of "small town" as it's reported population during the 2010 census was 1,700. I was never an observant child, as I was always playing video games, reading books, or doing some grade school homework. I remember only knowing a small handful of people, namely just those who lived in our little trailer park at the time. Everyone had that small town eccentricity we so often see romanticized. Next door was Mr. Mahan…

Community-based activism was the driving force behind the fight against development and gentrification in the SOMA and Tenderloin neighborhoods, and even across the bay in Oakland. In the video, “Oakland: Our City” the narrator describes the benefits of urban renewal on blighted neighborhoods, but never addresses the impact it may have on the people who live in these areas. Revitalization of the city’s life and value is a key motivating force to development. Another motivating force is high-rise…

While there are many subsets of urban agriculture, one of the most popular methods is known as Hydroponics. Hydroponics is a method of growing a variety of fruits and vegetables without the use of soil and is becoming quite common in major urban cities all over the world. As with everything else today, not everyone agrees on the benefits of producing food in this manner. One specific opposition to the sprawl of urban farming comes from Richard Longworth who expressed his viewpoint in an article…

Canadian cities can evoke different feelings in different people. This is evident in Canadian poetry. “Urban Spell” by Tihanya is a positive view of the urban community. “Urban Renewal” by McAdam conveys life in the city negatively. The poems “Urban Spell” and “Urban Renewal” both discuss life in the city, but it is obvious the moods of the poems differ drastically. “Urban Spell” evokes a positive mood through content and word choice. The content of the poem is a busy, bustling city, which…

kick personal cars out of the city center. On Spanish radio network Cadena Ser, she confirmed that Madrid's main avenue, the Gran Vía, will only allow access to bikes, buses, and taxis before she leaves office in May 2019. It's part of a larger effort to ban all diesel cars in Madrid by 2025. But the Spanish city is not the only one getting ready to take the car-free plunge. Urban planners and policy makers around the world have started to brainstorm ways that cities can create more space for…

In The Image of the City, Lynch discusses the meaning of “image” and how its interpreted as a cognitive map. He defines it as graphic snapshot of an urban structure. Lynch explains, the premise for reshaping what surrounds us is visual education in the image development process. This is the main condition for which an audience can be made, and in turn, for which an urban system can be manipulated, developed and analyzed. Lynch expands by saying that having the ability to visualize a clear mental…

The housing we live today, the city environment we live today, the transportation we take today and even the public services we take as granted today were all developed when time goes by with adequate urban planning. In module 1-4, the course director Lewis Code showed us the historical growth and development of urban places so we can better understand the reason behind of all these changes around the cities over years. For the rest of this essay, I will analyze the four important concepts I…

Mid-Sized Cities (MSC) are having an increasing impact on the economy although they have formally been unaccounted for. Through analytical examination of four articles, one specifically on two MSC, two concerning England and in respect to France, the varying ideologies about MCS are apparent. For instance the numerous definitions of MSC depending on the region, weaknesses and strengths of MSC, and finally, social and economic attributes connected to policies influenced by the ideas of a…

On the topic of Jacob’s ideas to discourage criminal behavior, she is an open critic of the common theory of improving cities’ vibrancies by making room for more green space before considering whether the new parks would be properly integrated . If a park is located in “a low-traffic area such as the residential edge of a neighborhood, ” misallocated green space can become “havens for transient populations or criminal activity ,” and become the type of place where teenagers go to abuse drugs or…

People have turned into an undeniably capable ecological power in the course of the most recent 10,000 years. With the approach of farming 8,000 years back, we started to change the area. What 's more, with the mechanical upset, we started to influence our climate. The late increment on the planet 's populace has amplified the impacts of our horticultural and financial exercises. Be that as it may, the development in world populace has conceal what might be a considerably more essential…