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St. Louis, Missouri Interagency Smart City Program Need & Readiness Assessment While the Department of Transportation provided explicit criteria for evaluating a city’s merit to receive support under its Smart City sharing economy program, Smart City programs being offered by other agencies did not. The following review of select programs within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Energy (DOE), and Department of Justice (DOJ) applies the…

The Impact of Gentrification in Major Urban Cities In Fortress Los Angeles Mike Davis discusses how corporations redevelopment of major urban cities has led to gentrification. Davis refers to the term gentrification as, "Extraordinary precautions … taken to ensure the physical separation of the different classes" (509). Gentrification zones through the city have widened the gap between the the socioeconomic classes that exist in society, resulting in a displacement of a large number of…

Sept. 3). Each individual store and business played a pivotal role in providing for the town. The image wanted to capture the essence of the town and it showed people that the town could provide for people’s needs. I think by showing that Dodge City had ammunition and firearm stores, it shows people that they could protect themselves, because during 1875 many people carried guns with them. Stores like the drugstore and grocery store let travelers, particularly men, know that they could bring…

Riverside, CA—General Plan Analysis and 30-Year Strategy Context Riverside City is located in Southern California. It was founded during the mission days under Spanish rule in the early 1800s, when ranchos (land grands) were offered to citizens of high standing. The downtown design was a grid iron pattern borrowed from the design of downtown Philadelphia . The city benefitted from the “second gold rush” of California; navel oranges were a cash crop in the area. The citrus industry assisted in…

Just south of his hometown of Los Angeles lies Culver City, which made its mark with its rapidly growing film industry, where Hollywood classics such as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were filmed. With such great successes came a drastic population growth rate of an incredible 1,011% in the 1920s (Mondkar), thus requiring thousands of new jobs and an expansion of the city; answering the problems introduced by this population growth is where Hayden Tract comes into play- enclosed by an…

In the “Riverbend City: Urban Health Issues Mission” several health care issues, related to urban areas are encountered. The issues presented in this mission display the common problems that urban areas may face with lack of access to preventive or basic health care. A homeless man is portrayed as a frequent visitor to the emergency room for treatments for minor health problems, and also suffers from alcoholism. He eventual visited the department with more severe symptoms, that needed closer…

(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…

FROM PLANNING THEORIES Howard’s idea to divide the “Garden city” into wards is considered to be one of the earliest notions of neighborhood in city planning. He visualized self-sustainable, compact neighborhoods with easy access to jobs, parks and shops for daily necessities. Howard clearly emphasized on efficient transportation network, combination of various social groups and integration of human and nature. Inspired by the “garden city”, Perry’s neighborhood units offer a more comprehensive…

Byron uses the image of the gondola as a synecdoche for the city of Venice. No other symbol fully encapsulates the fluidity and restlessness of the city, nor the pervasive intermixing of life and death that characterises Venice so fully. This is particularly true of Beppo, in which the gondola functions as a demonstration of the thin boundaries between the two seemingly antithetical states of life and death in Venice. The connection between the gondola and Venice is established in the opening…

from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. The world I've learned to know is the life in City Heights, though this is not the world I came from. The world I came from compared to the world I have now is a tremendous change. As people think about City Heights, they think about the good things, whether it's the beaches, the diversity, or the beautiful weather. Although if you think about the world my family was raised…