Global city

Cities Make Us Smarter Triumph of the City, written by Edward Glaeser, dives into the topic of cities and how they have transformed and shaped our lives. Plastered across the cover reads, “How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier”. Glaeser provides fantastic insights into each of these adjectives, but one stands apart from the rest. Cities make us smarter. Glaeser makes this clear when he states in the introduction, “Cities, the dense agglomerations…

third world. As well as the ideas of thinkers like Hernando de Soto and what Davis sees as his mistaken ideas. Mike Davis offers a comprehensive study of the present urban life and shows that slums have become the essential feature of the global crisis of urban overpopulation and underemployment. According to the United Nations, "More than…

ways to organize and shape a city. Others built the cities in the way they felt would best suit the needs of it’s people. All over the globe men and women debated in both literature and city planning what the best way was to plan human society. The likes of Thomas Moore wrote through their books that the best way to achieve a Utopia like state was to create a city in which humans were equal in labor skill, pay and recreational activity. Others, especially the likes of city planners found that…

important and luxury resorts (8.4km), Borg El-Arab City A new community in the Alexandria Governorate (18.5km). 5-3-1 The first level of design: cityscape scale: According to the stadium location; its main approach is the journey from Alexandria City; Cairo is too far, Northern Coast equipped only in the summer, Borg El-Arab City is new residential with small population “108.000 inhabitants ("Borg El Arab", 2013).” A- Stadium as an icon refers to city identity: The eighteen concrete lotus…

Urban Resilience Resilience in the city, entitled “urban resilience”, is defined as the capacity of cities to continue their activity under extreme pressure regardless of the type of shock or stress they face, so that the people who live and work within the cities, especially the poor and the vulnerable, can survive and grow steadily (The Rockefeller Foundation, 2014). In recent researches, the latest definition of urban resilience refers to the ability of a city system and all of its…

so that they can be rented to migrants and used by extended families (Genemo, 2012). Over the years, urban sprawl has directly contributed to the degradation and decline of natural environment resources. It also reduces farm land and productivity in city leading to social loss and open spaces (Haregewin, 2005). In addition, urban sprawl leads to regional imbalance, such as pulling jobs and people further away from poor communities, increasing in equality. Recently, the problem of urban sprawl…

majority of the global economy. With the opportunities these large urban areas offer, more and more people are moving into densely populated areas. In 2014, the United Nation’s reported that around 54% of the global population live in an urban area. In America, the urban population is over 80% of the total population, and is growing at the rate of 1% per year, which equates to over 3 million new urban Americans annually. This large population growth is putting a major strain on large cities due…

The world is urbanising rapidly. In 2008, the number of people living in cities exceeded those in the country side. Urbanisation per se is often a positive development, as urban areas tend to be more productive than rural areas…yet rapid urbanisation can outreach the capacities of cities to absorb and cater for an ever growing number of inhabitants (Matuschke 2009). India is not an exception to the general urban scenario in the world. It is becoming more urban albeit regional variations across…

How the city has changed from its original purpose As a result of the growth of suburbia the city has changed course from its original purpose. It has not died but merely changed its form. In order to deal with the migration of people away from the city it has created a horizontal conglomeration of single-family homes, office parks and shopping malls. The original purpose of the city was to keep work, living and leisure all in one place. The westernized City of the 19th century was compact, had…

adding with the low consumption and a very robust investment in the country. Recently, the rising number of forces against the central government is intriguing as the more educated generation of people, who have better knowledge of how to local and global economy process, are trying to fight back so that they and their children will not get exploited in the future. Nevertheless, since it is very hard to migrate out of China, especially if the income is medium or low, it seems that…