Inner city

the way that urban planning happens now. Urban planning, also known as city planning, is the process of planning for designs and regulations of land usage, with the focus on physical aspects, economical factors including advantages and potential disadvantages, and the impact on urban environments. Urban planning is a step by step process, which typically starts with a vision leading to the actual development. The growth of cities depends on this process because it factors in sustainable…

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…

minister in the inner city of Steubenville, Ohio. Righteous B grew up in a suburb outside of Philadelphia, and went to Franciscan…

opportunities to facilitate or hinder Auckland being a child-friendlier city. These areas are crucial to the health and well-being of children (Witten, Kearns & Carroll, 2015). Negative aspects of the urban environment such as high traffic levels, spatial segregation and safety concerns as well as parental entrapment and the exclusion of children needs in urban planning decision-making represent barriers to Auckland being a child-friendlier city. Conversely, the inclusion of child perceptions,…

A Case of Gentrification The reduction of black housing in the inner city of New Orleans is in a staggering position for a city having, record-setting economic growth post Hurricane Katrina. The longtime historically African-American lower to middle class warded off territories of New Orleans’ inner city, whether it may be uptown, downtown or in between are increasingly being overrun by a younger, more affluent race of white upper and middle class investors, eager with thoughts of redevelopment…

of improving the urban environment and the living condition. Urbanization leads to the emergence of commercial and industrial activities within the area but the historic city areas, having failed to keep pace with the requirements of the modern economy, start to deteriorate. While historic cities area indentitarian, core to the city both historically and geographically, they are also central to many…

The word gentrification was first coined by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 when she observed certain alterations in the social structure and housing markets in certain areas of inner London (Mitchell, 2012). She noticed that it begins in a small district and rapidly proceeds until all or almost all of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed (Mitchell, 2012). Because gentrification is such a widespread, international phenomenon…

Compact cities can prevent many problems that urban sprawl brings to cities. The United States, unlike the UK or Japan, has encouraged urban sprawl with its policies based on the free market capitalism. As a result, in American cities, as suburbanization accerelates, economic segregation has also been expanded and thus, many economic and social inequality issues have been emerged. In contrast to a compact city, which is highly dense and mixed-use, urban sprawl is explained as a low-density land…

social equality (Oldenburg, p. 163). In the middle of the city of Jönköping between Södra Strandgatan and Smedjegatan, lies the inner garden of Borgmästargränd 5, a third place. The aim of this essay is to describe and analyze the inner garden based on the American urban sociologist Ray Oldensburg´s The character of third places, in order to show that this place brings vitality by acting as a social fabric for the community life. The inner garden can be considered a third place, because of three…

Over the past few decades, racial residential segregation has had a major influence on many American cities. Many American cites experienced white individuals moving away from the inner city to the suburb, this is also known as “white flight. This particular movement has played a major role in shaping the American city today. The purpose of this study is to address the effects of white flight, mainly focusing on its influence on income and crime. There has been a great deal of research that…