that urban and suburban sprawl is the same thing as urban sprawl is people leaving the cities for housing options that allow them to spread out more but still close enough to the city to work. This is exactly was suburban sprawl is. However, suburban areas encourage more commuting as it takes longer to get from place to place, which increases gas emissions, and using farmlands as land for new housing developments which cuts down on land for crops to be grown. In earlier decades poor planning…
Urbanisation takes place when people travel from rural areas to a more urbanized area in hopes of finding a better lifestyle. Urbanisation can also take place in a rural areas due to an economical and financial development. Urbanisation itself involves many life changes when people decide to move from rural areas to urbanized areas. People experience differences in their lifestyles and go through major changes in areas of their lives such as their jobs, education, and living condition. All of…
Urban cities are now being followed by negative consequences of unstructured urbanization. Rising levels of population have dramatically caused huge alarming stages of pollution. Densely populated areas are harming the planet’s environment. Public transports are failing because people are choosing private luxurious cars that add to emission of toxic fumes. More over, huge cities release enormous amounts of waste that are mostly non-biodegradable that…
Nowadays it is difficult to live in big cities without using the transport. It is well-known fact that in metropolises the transportation system is developed well. In almost every big city there are a buses, metro, taxes and great number of personal cars. The fast enlargement of citizens leads to increasing number of cars. Thus, statistic, provided The World Bank, says that the number of motor vehicles per 1000 people in 2011 in the USA was 786, whereas the year earlier it was 782. In…
religious factors and economic factors. There are many ways in which social factors influence the shape of a city. macroscopic-ally, the overall planning of cities often receives the direct influence of social factors. For example, some centralized civilizations and urban planning are directly controlled by the government and the gird line were used widely. As another example, economically developed and sparsely populated cities tend to be well-defined and far-flung for the functional areas,…
Sometimes our personal legend is only fulfilled where it all started. And sometimes, the journey to achieving it is much more than the achievement itself. In The Alchemist, Santiago starts off as a shepherd traveling southern Spain alongside his sheep. While sleeping under a sycamore, Santiago has a dream that he feels is his destiny to follow. After meeting various characters like the King of Salem, the crystal merchant, and the Alchemist, Santiago makes his way to the Great Pyramids. All…
There is too much people trying to move into urbanized places at once, this is causing or has caused lots of problems towards the environment, two main issues is air and water problem. The population of the world is getting larger, there has to be more food and supplies available to maintain all the people. When this occurs people will start fighting over supplies to live. In order to be able to live, they will have to earn money and buy the things they need, they can’t earn a lot of money if…
communicable diseases. Some of these diseases are easily transmitted to people through the movement of urbanization. Urbanization is the movement of people from an area with little development, like villages to small or big cities with good development. This movement of people could lead to several communicable diseases especially in areas of large population. In this assignment, I am discussing the impacts of urbanization on communicable diseases. Urbanization can facilitate the spread of…
Reflection essay Habraken – SAR method of analysis Strengths This method of urban analysis looks at the tissue or an urban fabric in two major components, namely buildings and spaces. So a complex tissue is analyzed by looking at it in terms of buildings and spaces. These buildings and spaces are further seen as either thematic or non thematic. When spaces or buildings follow certain rules which repeats itself to form a tissue, then those buildings and space are termed as thematic spaces. Those…
meant to present and preserve the history of New York and it’s people. The exhibit “Future of City Lab” explores five central challenges that New York will face in coming generations. The challenges are making a living: what can we do to provide economic opportunities for the next generation, Living together: How can we foster a more inclusive city, housing a growing population: How can we meet the housing needs of New Yorkers? Living with Nature: How can New York City enhance it’s natural…