Eastern Suburbs

The rapid industrial and suburban growth that Chicago exhibit during the turn of the century can easily be seen from its skyscrapers and gridded roads to its booming economy and population. However, beneath the surface lurks a problem that hints at just how far the windy city still must go through to achieve its grand status as one of the world’s great cities. Much like Chicago, across the pond Manchester experienced a lot of the same issues. Plagued with problems Chicago and Manchester had…

Within cities are many neighborhoods. These neighborhoods can range from being very prosperous to less fortunate. Many various factors play a role in how a city or neighborhoods either grows or decays. Throughout the city of what we call Pittsburgh, there are many neighborhoods that are fast to develop, but there are also many that are decaying. One neighborhood that is fast growing is Cranberry Township. Cranberry started as a marsh land that settlers drained. The land serves as a good…

Consumer preference for low-density urban development has taken a toll on the quintessential American city. In a “Decomposing urban sprawl,” Peiser identifies “…that consumer preference and technological innovations help explain suburbanization and decentralization.” By the same report, these factors are further augmented by …”market failures caused by all manners of subsidies…and that public goods such as open space tend to be under-supplied by the private market” (Peiser, 2001). This…

Waterloo is Sydney’s mixed media inner city suburb because this is where industry and artsy and creative design elements merge into one fantastic space. Where it was once an overcrowded industrial suburb, the transition to creative art spaces has prompted a buzz all about Sydney and the neighbouring suburbs. Waterloo is a tech-savvy suburb that embraces creativity and diversity in a friendly, community-centric way. Most people find Waterloo to be wildly appealing, and here is why. Danks Street…

introduction of houses made from prefabricated parts allowed for entire new neighborhoods to be built in a short amount of time. Along with all these advances came a shift of the population out of downtown areas and into the surrounding areas in the suburbs, where the land was cheap and the taxes were low. Parkways and highways connected these different parts of the cities, increasing…

Problems With Anderson My problem with Anderson is the potholes and road conditions , many people dislike them . They mess up peoples tires and alignments . City of Anderson needs to raise taxes to fix them. They need to do right the first time so know one has anything negative to say. People complain about the roads , that should persuade the city fix it . The city worries about other things like new cop cars , new stop lights & water pipes. But not fixing the terrible roads . Poor…

Suburbs are associated with higher levels of driving, which led to larger quantities of air pollution due to increased volume of cars. This pollution leads to environmentally caused illness, and potentially death. This means that the amount of air pollution…

According to the lecture from week ten, the definition of urban area is the field where it is surrounding a city and it has a high population density. Most of the urban areas are well-developed meaning there is a condensed collection of human structures, such as buildings, public infrastructure, real estate, labour markets, sites of production and consumption. In the book The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, it shows the book occurs in the future and it has negative affects about the…

Summary: Open Space and Urban Sprawl Salman Khan 59574103 Introduction Rapid urbanization triggers the introduction of policies designed to preserve open spaces in an area. However the same policies designed for this purpose may actually contribute to expansion of the urban fringe and “leapfrog development”. The major conflict unveiled by the results is the controversy over preserving open space within private lots or at the urban fringe (accessible to public) problems associated with…

Urban renewal transformed urban landscapes across America during the mid-twentieth century. New York City did not depart from this trend, and the impacts are prevalent today. The practice of slum clearance displaced entire communities, and perpetuated the very idea it sought to resolve. From this, the anti-urban movement sprang forward. This grassroots effort made progress through white middle-class residents as it concentrated on a community’s culture rather than redevelopment. This approach…