Inner city

Even in areas of the country where low income areas may not be a city environment the lack of income affects the style of home or apartment families can afford to live in (Jacob, 2007). Not only are there differences in living arrangements, but there is also a difference in the street traffic in neighborhoods. Many low income families choose to live in the inner-city or urban areas because of the convenience of public transportation as a means of traveling to and…

While there are many subsets of urban agriculture, one of the most popular methods is known as Hydroponics. Hydroponics is a method of growing a variety of fruits and vegetables without the use of soil and is becoming quite common in major urban cities all over the world. As with everything else today, not everyone agrees on the benefits of producing food in this manner. One specific opposition to the sprawl of urban farming comes from Richard Longworth who expressed his viewpoint in an article…

By way of contrast, in postmodernism a lot of aspects of life are shown as constructs of society. Manzanar for example, relied on highways and heavy traffic from the inner city to help him “conduct” the congested streets of Los Angeles (53). The novel also included a map of the city, which also created a feeling of uncertainty since the maps were destined to change; unexpected, sudden changes that often times lead you to a dead-end-road. What is more important, is that the maps also had “layers”…

1. Area: The community in which I live is an urban setting located in Central New York. The City of Utica is located in Oneida County. 2. Demographics: With an estimated 61,332 people in the City of Utica according to the U.S Census Bureau, the city has seen a decrease in residency since the formal census conducted in 2010 (Census Bureau). Even with the estimated decrease in population, the city is home to a multitude of races and ethnicities immigrating to the U.S from various countries…

evidence base for 'positive gentrification’. She believes that although the new middle classes' desire for diversity and difference, they tend to self-segregate. “Gentrification is part of an aggressive, revanchist ideology designed to retake the inner city for the middle classes” (Lee, p.1, 2008). Lee highlights a major critic of gentrification, the displacement of the lower-class. Although this displacement may be true, with the closure of the General Motors the previous basis of Elizabeth’s…

If you like the look of Victorian-era houses, you’ll love the architecture Redfern offers. This inner-city suburb is one of Sydney’s oldest and is less than three kilometres from the central business district of Sydney, making it close to the airport, public transportation, and the best beaches in New South Wales. Its residents consider it a perfectly positioned suburb. Lifestyle This popular Sydney suburb neighbours the popular area of Surry Hills and it is home to a diverse Australian…

I am going to focus on the issue of growth in cities and what I found interesting in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. According to the reading on The City as a Growth Machine by Logan Molotch, “one issue consistently generates consensus among local elite groups and separates them from people who use the city principally as a place to live and work: the issue of growth.” Meaning that the local elites in these cities are divided from those who are not considered…

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…

Jennifer Light’s From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America traces the transfer of military techniques, technologies, and experts to city management and organization during the early Cold War. Defense intellectuals approached urban problems using techniques developed during the Second World War; systems analysis, aerial surveillance, and computer simulation Coincidentally enough, From Warfare to Welfare itself originated in the defense establishment.…

Life”, is about the way the big city affects people and people’s psyche. Simmel has a negative view on how the city changes people and it is a horrible place to live in. The city makes people unconsciously change their way of thinking and their perspective on each other. City dwellers become more reserved as in they are not open to relationships as small town folk are. So city people do not build any emotions or sentimental attachments towards others and the city. People have little to no time…