rural areas to cities is causing the cities to become congested and polluted. The rapidly expanding population and overcrowded slum have hasten the urban development where old buildings are demolished and deforestation is carried out to provide more space for development to cater the needs of increasing population. As a result of urbanization, congestion, pollutions, climate change and emissions inevitably beset every city and historic cities are of no exception. Many historical urban areas…
opportunity, prosperity and other factors are the main reason why people start to move to Cities. Nowadays, a half of the world population is already residing in urban areas. By 2050, two-third of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. Urbanization is a word for becoming a city. It also means people shifting from rural to urban areas. Urbanization happens in all over places in the world, and it brings both positive and negative effects to societies. Urbanization has become a…
For example, in New York City, Dallas and other major metropolitan areas, you can simply dial "311" to file a grievance. The city of Boston takes its consumer-cabbie relations so seriously, your complaint is actually handled by the police department. Cabs are, in fact, such an important aspect of a city 's reputation…
Then we can use this to look into alternate modes of transportation. Transportation investments can also shape areas. Investments are usually a political matter. They can have a huge impact of the different neighborhoods, the way areas are laid out, and land values. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) is of much importance to planners because its purpose was to create improved organization between…
Throughout history, there has been a great amount of development with cities. With what started out as small pockets of communities now stands as enormous developments, shown through amazing technological advancements and the brilliant minds of urban planners, architects, engineers and more. An excellent example of a majorly developed city is Chicago, Illinois. Rent Café had published an article about the changes Chicago has gone through in a series of photos, illustrating in an excellent way…
temperate climate and natural beauty, Vancouver is considering one of the friendliest cities with citizens taking great pride in keeping the region clean and safe. It is the westernmost of Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories with Vancouver’s metro area consisting of 21 municipals. Modern west coast city rich in culture with energetic nightlife and restaurant scene, Vancouver is becoming one of America’s premier travel destinations. This paper will discuss the regions demographics and…
Contextual Architecture In 2003 my family moved to a house in a newly built part of town in the neighborhood of Lamplight Village. Based on the Lamplight Village painting by Thomas Kinkade, it was beautiful. Not what you would expect from a Las Vegas home, but beautiful nonetheless. The facade of the two story home was light brown horizontal wood siding with big chocolate colored shutters, only for show of course. It had a spacious covered porch, a picturesque window seat and large leafy trees…
established urban areas at specific topographical locales where ecological conditions (water and atmosphere) were ideal and where financial variables would guarantee a measure of success. Other human needs political, religious, instructive, and financial assumed a parts in finding urban communities also. Spatial area of urban areas likewise comes about because of their distinctive sorts intersection focuses, break-of-mass focuses and enhancement, legislative, or religious substances. Mechanical…
The last century has seen the rapid growth of the urban areas which is likely to be one of the milestones in the current ages. Also known as the urbanization process, this situation is defined by the unprecedented rural population shift to the cities which stems from the Modern period as a result of the Industrial Revolution. However, the key aspect is the universal nature of the issue which has effect on an exceptional transformation in a global scale but on a drastically impact in the social,…
Analysis on Dos Lagos Areas The development of human history is always filled with fundamental and unexpected transformations. The rise of suburbs is just a case in point. Before the 18th century, the word suburb mainly represented a “subordinate and inferior part of the city where odious activities and marginal people congregated” (Fishman, 2006). At that time, the suburbs were usually subordinate to the central city and inhabited by the poor. In some places, suburbs were swallowed as the main…