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make this industry possible. Minnesota had all of them. Rich, 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…

Relationship to place is intertwined to notions of job opportunity, shaping patterns of movement for individuals as mobility becomes a necessity to employment. The demands and expansion of the job market has forced educated individuals like UC Davis graduates out of their hometowns and instead into a flight of movement, seeking a new place to call home. However, within Northern California, soaring costs of living imposes expenses upon any standard of living. Affordability is drawn to mind,…

industry," (LATimes). Over the past couple of years Los Angeles has faced a big change in transportation available to the public. And companies like Lyft and Uber have been leading the charge to change the way the people of Los Angeles get around the city. Before the introduction of these companies if someone needed to get around LA they would take a cab, but now they have more options. But since the emergence of Uber and other companies that other the same services of taxis, the market has…

da Ashley Reflection #1 Portrayal of City through Film This course had four learning outcomes attached to the class. These outcomes included discussing the evolution of cities through film, having the ability to evaluate how filmmaking can convey messages about the past, present, and future urban space, identify key issues facing urban region, and lastly be able to communicate my analysis thru written medium. The first outcome was performed through discussion at the conclusion of each movie.…

happy ending. Lang had personal experience during the war and transcended into his film work and inspired his use of emotions. The cinematography is one of the ways Lang excels at sharing with the viewer the chaos and instability within the modern city. Lang’s camera movements are erratic and volatile; these are directly connected to Lang’s motivation to interact with the viewer. Lang uses his camera to give the viewer a disoriented feeling during certain scenes, in ways this allows the viewer…

land at cheaper prices and creating a different form of middle class rural lifestyle. Why rural gentrification? Rural Gentrification could perhaps be seen as a neglected topic, when we think of gentrification as a whole, the primary focus seems to fall on the metropolitan and their urbanised gentrification…

project a new beginning. The strategy of rebuilding has not been successful. Eliminating slums or halting the decaying of neighborhoods in cities has not been accomplished. This concept of salvaging continues the failing method in a never ending cycle. However, there are proper steps that can be taken to reverse the process for decay. The lack of involvement from city planners on the decaying issue has created what is known as “The Slums.” Jacobs’ solutions include development at…

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…

Angels is a realistic depiction of the life of street children in Brazil seen through the eyes of Alex, a street child of 13 in Brazil who has been kicked onto the city streets by his stepfather after his mother dies. He is alone and scared. Unfortunately, jobs that provide enough money for food and shelter are nonexistent. He eventually falls in with a surrogate family of street urchins who call themselves the Asphalt Angels, headed by two older teens, Roy and his girlfriend, Duda. They hang…

Instead, it is important to unveil how the city itself spatialized and constructed social and gender difference for the working class, while they, in a mutually constitutive manner shaped modes of sociability in the city. Analysis of the works by Faure, Ferguson, Haine, and Ross, makes clear that Shane Ewan’s three features of urban history are vital to a discussion of the working class. The use of interdisciplinarity, ‘history from below’ and the city-as-agent elucidate the hidden history of…