Crystal City

Compact cities can prevent many problems that urban sprawl brings to cities. The United States, unlike the UK or Japan, has encouraged urban sprawl with its policies based on the free market capitalism. As a result, in American cities, as suburbanization accerelates, economic segregation has also been expanded and thus, many economic and social inequality issues have been emerged. In contrast to a compact city, which is highly dense and mixed-use, urban sprawl is explained as a low-density land…

improve the building, but if the neighborhood wasn’t gentrified the build would stay the same and not change. That could be bad or good because it depends on whether the building is a new or old. According to the text “Bring on the hipsters”, “In many cities, zoning laws force developers to build subsidized housing for the poor as well as pricey pads for well-off newcomers, which means that rising house prices can help to create more subsidized housing, not less.” This goes back to my point that…

deep, soil was great for farmers to plant wheat, the best crop for making flour. Minnesota also had lots of rivers. St. Anthony Falls was a great river to power large mills. There were also lots of settlers. Minnesota had a large population in the cities during the industry. This meant for the flour mills that they could get people to work for the industry. Some jobs paid much better than others. If workers wanted to get a better paying jobs, the had to increase their human capital. All of these…

Another way low income families are hurt by failures of city planning and protection is through today’s gentrification. Residential segregation have only changed forms as the decades went on. Gentrification is when business owners renovate and improve buildings and districts to appeal to a higher-class demographic. The common effect is that property taxes skyrocket, low-income families get displaced by rising prices, and that culture gets diluted () . Positive effects like more school funding…

“A City Ready to Burn” By:Talyn Houghton On October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois was a city ready to burn. In the book The Great Fire, the author Jim Murphy gave enough evidence to show that Chicago was a city ready to burn into a mountain of flames in 1871. At the onset, the city was a windy city anyway but tonight it was just so out of hand that (60 miles per hour)when the fire started in the O’leary’s barn they said that the cow kicked the lamp over when she was milking it, the wind it…

Not only that it has benefited patients living in the cities, it also has a no arguable impression on those who live in rural communities. Many of these benefit receivers appear to be senior citizens. However, with the lack of technology skills, most of the patients are not able to effectively utilize these…

One of the cities I believe millennials love the most is Austin, Tx. That might sound weird considering the stereotypical millennial and the stereotypes surrounding Texas. Millennials are more liberal, artsy, young, hipster, nonreligious, and open to change, whereas Texas is stereotyped as old, southern, conservative, dogmatic, traditionalist, and pious protestant christian. So, why would a millennial think anything remotely related to Texas, let alone a Texas city, would be cool? Well, Austin,…

In the essay, “The World of Doublespeak” by William Lutz, Lutz introduces the readers to a language called doublespeak. According to Lutz doublespeak is, “the language that makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, the unpleasant appear attractive or at least seem tolerable” (Lutz, 337). The language of doublespeak is intended to deceive the truth and to miscommunicate. Lutz describes to the readers four types of doublespeak, which include, euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook and…

done in hopes of providing a better life for their children. By getting them away from the dangers of the inner city life style. In their minds they are leaving behind street gangs, a run-down school system, and drugs. There has always been a certain set of higher expectations of the suburbs. When I was growing up I lived in both environment. As a child that lived for the most part in the city of Chicago. I attended was Portage Park Elementary, a school that is rated 6 out of 10. When I moved to…

sustainable city. Turning over cities to a sustainable cities, is a long-term investment, for example the built environment, as well as enhancing a stable infrastructure for a long term environmental achievement. If we talk about the Utopia and the definition, Utopia means a better life, and it came since 1516 from Thomas more. Let’s picture…