City-state

1.4 Activity 1.1: Do you think it would be possible to make a perfect map of a city? What would such a map have to look like? How useful would it be? Making a perfect map of a city wouldn't be possible because it is impossible to make a perfect detailed replica of what a city looks like while also scaling it down. For the map of a city to be absolutely perfect it would also have to be the exact size of the city and then it would be rendered obsolete and impractical. It would not to be very…

Farm City Connecting to Themes in 13 Ways of Seeing Nature in LA “Farm City” is a personal narrative written by Novella Carpenter chronicling her experience as an urban farmer in a run-down, impoverished neighborhood in Oakland. She relates her experience with farming and interacting with the people in the neighborhood, as well as the ways in which her farm, her neighbors and her neighborhood interact. Carpenter effectively uses narrative to display some of the main concepts relating to urban…

establish more “enduring” roots and “settle down.” City, rural, suburban or wherever??? In what way if any have ideas discussed in this class affected your thoughts about alternative directions in your personal life and the type of environment you would prefer to live? Although suburban and rural areas offers a completely different experience not found in urbanized areas. My personal preference would be to settle down in an urban city area. The city provides a diversity of different…

surround it. Scottsdale’s community values include the preservation of its uniqueness and heritage, the connectivity to surrounding neighborhoods, having efficient transportation options, and the social, environmental and economical sustainability of the city as a whole. It strives to be a community that has high standards of appearance and aesthetics while also encouraging human connection and interaction among the open space throughout. The vision of Scottsdale is to provide the community with…

Jacobs understood the importance of this and knew how cities could maintain this safety, but warned of what would become of them if they did not stray away from the current city styles. More modern planners, such as Joel Kotkin argue that Jacobs’s lesson is no longer applicable to modern cities because they have different functions than those of the past. This argument is valid in the sense that city…

principle, and abandoned practicality. In order to form utopian cities, the planners of urban areas like Brasília and Delhi proposed detailed urban plans that have mostly ignored market factors in favor of heightened urban regulations. In the case of Brasília, these regulations, designed to further the city’s utopian conception, have actually had the opposite effect. Brasília’s regulations have drawn population centers away from the center city toward outlying areas. (Bertaud 8). Furthermore, in…

Massimo Vignelli: New York Subway Diagram. Communication is an essential part of graphic design. Public signs, utility signs, and road signs are examples of how a design communicate the information with the use of graphical elemtns. As up in coming graphic designers, it is important for us to understand how we should approach informative design; creating something that is just aesthetically pleasing won’t be an effective tool for the public to utilize in everyday life. A perfect example of how…

growing close to a community that loves and cares about each other. Grover’s Corner resembles Colby in a number of ways. Where the two towns differ, results from the century long gap between the societies and their geographic region in the United States. Grover’s Corner and Colby compare to one another in daily life, love, and fragility of life but they also show some distinct differences. A typical day of a Grover’s Corner or Colby citizen might look very much the same. The day would begin…

surroundings. As far as /Sir-up/, /Seer-up/, /Sih-rip/ I thought I would find that those currently in rural areas would say /Sir-up/, those in city would say /Seer-up/. I was not sure where to place /Sih-rip/, so on that end I thought it must be a suburban or city term. In WV those who live in more rural areas tend to say /Sir-up/, those in the city pronounce /Seer-up/, and I have never encountered anyone who used the pronunciation /Sih-rip/. This hypothesis comes from the premise that…

Jane Addams, Daniel Burnham, and Richard J. Daley all had been affected by the city of Chicago. Jane Addams was more focused on individual neighborhoods, while Burnham and Daley were focused on the city as a whole. However, both Burnham and Daley seemed to compromise and favor certain areas of the city. For Burnham, the downtown area and lake front is where he focused his designs, and Daley always favored his home, Bridgeport. Jane Addams focused more on the individual neighborhoods,…