Keith Urban

considered the “urban wilderness”, places of crime, danger, corruption and disorder (Boyce, 2004; Smith, 1996). The emergence of gentrification arose at a time when the imagery of cities transformed from anti-urbanization to a romanticized sentiment, saturated with language and ideas of the frontier. In the preface of “The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the revanchist city” by Neil Smith (1996), he describes how the influx of “urban pioneers” into cities can be considered the new urban…

thrive within the community. These services often provide jobs that do not require high education, generating employment opportunities for the lower income residents (Byrne 419). Research as shown that gentrification teaches mortgage lenders to trust urban homeowners. They tend to lend to those in profitable central cities (420). Once the affluent people renovate their homes or simply tidy up their property, the area becomes more attractive to other wealthier people. Therefore, the value of…

In the late 1880s, there was a growth of cities never experienced before in the Northeast and Midwest regions of America. This rapid urbanization was caused by a great amount of immigration to the United States, and by improvements in the farming industry. Even though immigration and inventions helped to increase the rate at which cities grew, rapid urbanization brought many problems having to do with housing, transportation, water distribution, crime, and fire. To counter these problems, city…

1 Introduction As Setha Low explains in “The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear“, a spatial analysis of the city prominently brings up separations and conflicts in both the center and the edge of the city (Low 2003, 387). Globally, cities are divided into different areas, segre-gated by cultural or racial differences and tensions. It is interesting to see how cities across the planet deal with issues that result from social pres-sures, cultural contexts and…

Asef Bayat in his article “City inside out” has proposed that cities like Cairo and Beirut are undergoing through a new form of urban public space, where, poor people tend to reappropriate the space from rich in Middle East region. Such urbanized public space’s new version, where, public-ness levels of the city consider is as “inside out” in literal meaning, where poor public is left with no option other than ensuring a heavy outdoor presence on city streets and where rich people’s response is…

housing estates for the rapid growth in population arosed. Other than that, the growing number of locals moved from rural areas to urban which led to rural-urban migration. The reason behind is that in rural areas, there are lack of community facilities and medical service which are the push factors. The developers, however, provide many attractions to attract people live in urban area. For example, Harbour One ,which is built by Emperor Ivestment Limited and located in Hong Kong Island West, is…

Since 1800, the world has experienced the process of migration from rural areas to cities. In 1800, only 3% of total population lived in the urban areas, but in the following two centuries, the population of cities has rapidly increased to over 50% (Godfrey and Julien, 2005). Because of the development of technology, farming has been becoming more effective than ever. The increasing number of farmer has been losing their jobs (Knoll, 2014). Therefore, in many developing countries, the better…

This can still be seen in urban cities today with the prevalence and importance of public locations for meeting instead of all interacting taking place in private settings such as a person’s home. The importance of the cafe in “The Eyes of the Poor” is one that can still be easily…

caught up with the demands of city life. Wirth also mentions how mankind has been removed from organic nature. There is no true definition of the word “urban” and no true definition of the process of urbanization. A city cannot be defined as urban based on its population because some characterize a community of 2,500 or less as rural and all others are urban. Yet, others may change the criteria to 4,000, 10,000, or 100,000 for population. Because of the rapid growth in population within a city,…

establishment and growth in commonality of advocacy consulting firms, community groups, and university planning departments such as the advocacy firm Urban Planning Aid or the Pratt Institute’s Center for Community and Environmental Development . Overall, Jacobs’ influence in community advocacy “showed people around the country that they could fight the urban renewal bulldozer—and win” when empowered enough by the advocacy groups . Again, even though Jacobs did not touch on the topic of social…