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Land reclamation refers to the process of recovering land that is damaged and abandoned and making it usable again. There is a need for land reclamation owing to the burgeoning population, inexorably giving rise to the country to provide space for industrial growth, recreation and transport. Spatial constraints are overcome by land reclamation which is key to providing space for the expansion of industries and commercial buildings, recreational facilities as well as houses. The three methods of…

position which create and expand inequalities in availability and accessibility and outcomes of city resources and amenities including public and private health facilities. The present study therefore looks into the nature and extent of health inequities within cities of India. It investigate whether these inequalities are systematic and socially produced and factors that proliferates these inequalities among city dwellers. It attempts to explore the ways and means to reduce these inequalities…

Have you ever imagined your life as perceived in the eyes of others? Do the lives of those who live in major cities tend to move faster, like the hustle and bustle of traffic? What about country folks, do their lives move like a tractor on an old back road? When most people see this house comment on the huge front porch or how massive and exquisite it appears. For me, home is the first thing that rushes to my mind. To countless people this is just an image of a house, but to me there are…

development, and Zebracki examines the perception of the public with reference to several specific public art installments. Public art integrates the location into the art and allows the piece to become a part of the city. Barcelona is a city where public art has become an integral part of the cities culture. Zebraki’s study was an innovative way to explore the impact of public art on members of the public, and to discover how public art has impacted the people. Moments of freedom and Carmela,…

density, is one of the city that have adopted the concept of TOD. Hong Kong has developed its efficient mass transit system compromising the Mass Transit Railway (MTR), franchised buses, minibuses, taxi and ferries, integrated…

There are two different types of communities one being Gemeinschaft, and the other Gesellschaft. These two are completely different and end up on the opposite ends of the continuum. Gemeinschaft means the community that is older and more rural. The other Gesellschaft is a modern community with a lot of people and a lot of different culture. These two are different especially in the movie The Village this is best shown when the blind girl jumps the fence and she is wearing clothing that looks…

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…

is true that for the economic growth, you have to give up somethings such as traffic, sky high housing market, and the pollutions. However, put local residents’ life and properties in the risk should not be an option. Although the HB40 prohibit the city government to regulate oil and gas companies’ activities since the damage of earthquake is small, the public still have a chance to correct it by legislate a new regulation on the state level. For example, if hydraulic fracturing cause more…

redistributing his city with an emphasis on the center of the city and on the complete other end of the spectrum Frank Lloyd Wright was eliminating the city center completely. Broadacre City was detailed in Wright’s 1932 book The Disappearing City. The book was called the disappearing city because Wright believed he was living in a time when the great urban centers ceased to exist anymore (Fishman 122). Broadacre City is an expansive city with no core, an endless suburbia. It is a new kind of…

the way cities were constructed in both physical and social aspects of their environments. For the first time in American history, a fresh and innovative, at the time radical, movement sprung up due to the observations and claims that Jacobs proposed in her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. During the 1950’s, modernism had already become an established (and universally accepted) ethos in American city planning. Jane Jacobs witnessed the shortcomings of the modernist city…