Elizabeth City

A bustling modern city seems to be the most exciting place to be. Or so it seems. While the city itself seems colorful and vibrant, these modern industrial cities tend to be devoid of “humans.” Surely, humans do exist and they constitute the city population, but city-dwellers are often stuck in the mundane, boxed life of an urban city, deprived of their individuality. Shanghai, a city where “One Evening in the Rainy Season” and “Sealed Off” are set, is no exception. To Shanghai residents,…

Accroding to the definition of Madanipour, (1996), urban design can be defined as the interact between architecture, town planning, and other related professions; the three dimensional design of spaces which are serving people and their subsequent care and management. The design of the external spaces including the following elements: buildings arrangements with their different uses, the associated movement networks, and the spaces and the urban landscape of spaces between them. It is to be…

The lead sociologists involved with the University included Robert Park, Ernest Burgess and Louis Wirth. They explored two key themes of sociology; urban ecology and urbanism as a way of life. These concepts greatly enhanced our understanding of cities and urban life. Their studies revolved around urban land-use and its effect on society, resulting in an impersonal way of life due to the separation of the affluent from the working class and the lack of community in urban neighborhoods. Their…

Gallery in Bangalore? The fast growing city of Bangalore has a whole lot of problems; the roads (or lack off), the chaotic and undermanaged development of the city, the poor sanitation, dying lakes (and dying fish- another story) and in the last few weeks, even the weather; the one truly attractive character of Bangalore has turned ugly with the city sweltering with temperatures of 37 degree centigrade! But something else has also been raising hackles in the city in the last few weeks. A little…

4.1 CITY LEVEL INITIATIVES: 4.1.1 Chandigarh: Chandigarh has more than 35% of its geographical area under forests, parks and trees covers making it one of the greenest cities of the country. It is one of the modern planned cities of India. Chandigarh has a geographical area of about 140 sq,km, has a population of about 10,54,686 according to 2011 census and density around 7912 persons/ sq.km. The per capita availability of green space is around 55 sq.m and the number of green spaces in terms of…

The Tenderloin. Not the type of meat, but the neighborhood that I call home. Tenderloin, San Francisco. The so called “hood,” the place with the highest crime rates and homelessness within the city. From robbery to aggravated assault, it all existed. I grew up in this environment and yet I embraced every bit of it. Yes, I eventually realized that I lived in this neighborhood because of my family’s financial status, but because of my status I had been inspired to go to school and further engage…

traditional American town, what is important is not what buildings are used for but the buildings' size and disposition toward the street. Buildings of similar size and characteristics tend to be compatible regardless of their use [Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, 1992]. With the growing number of people moving into suburbs and the increase in services and facilities, we need to reverse the formula of having buildings of varying sizes, but ensuring homogenous uses can be a challenge.…

The love and fascination for street photography stems from the veracity of the genre. Street photography is romanticized as a photographer who roams the cities and takes snapshots of the everyday interactions and situations. The result of this quest, is a compilation of honest documents that hold growing importance over time. This adventure however, no longer fully captures the sole expression of street photography. As the medium of photography shifted from document to the fine art, the genre of…

other which may include race, gender or religion, for example. The total population for Green Bay is 104,057. There is a lot of cultural diversity in the city of Green Bay, with a mixture of all races varying in amounts throughout the city. These people vary from caucasian, black, asian and hispanic with all of them contributing to the city to make it unique and full of diverse cultures. suburbanstats.org/population/wisconsin/how-many-people-live-in-green-bay as of early 2015. . Green Bay's…

of a city neighborhood. Although this process takes decades to change the demographics of the urban development, it changes neighborhood travel characteristics and transportation planning/infrastructure requirements. Should transportation engineers care about gentrification while designing roads, bridges, highways, freeways? If we (transportation engineers) build it would they have to leave? Are transportation engineers creating the cycle of gentrification by developing master plan of a city?…