Public space

groups of people and act as signifying objects that carry meaning with them. These spaces, as seen in (Fig. 2, 3, 4) are open and clear of any barriers making them ideal spots to carry out activities. Unlike many other parks in New York City, Union Square does not have many or any regulation at all in regards to what kind of activities…

Angelika Baez Summary & Reflection 1. Public Health Issue: Regis College There is an issue with insufficient parking spaces at Regis College. The lack of parking provokes individuals to park illegally. Parking illegal compromises the overall safety of emergency vehicles and pedestrians. Vehicles that are parked on cross-walks or double parked obstructs the path for emergency responders, which may possibly delay response time. The group presentation was informative. The group went deeper…

In Brent Staples essay Black Lives Matter is justified. People from all over the world have different opinions about The Black Lives Matter movement.Everybody is entitled to their own opinion but if you have an opinion about something this serious controversy breaks out. In this world we have many times where people are perceived wrongly and sometimes it ends up in tragedy. Brent Staples essay Black Men and Public Space is about black men being judged just by how they look and the color of their…

For this exercise, I stayed in the MD. Anderson Library in the UH main campus at 11:30. I sat down at the last computer, which is nearest the none-computer area and the windows. First, I had not decided to do this observation at that time, but a yelling voice of an African American guy made me feel curious. That led me open the Microsoft Word screen on computer and begin making my public space observation, an assignment in Sociology 1300 course. This was not the first time I feel curious to…

Barnet’s city buildings all have an integral relation with public space. His Australian Museum has the expanse of Hyde Park; the Colonial Secretary’s Office, the empty site of the first Government House across the street to the west; Customs House its square facing the quay; the Lands Department, the broad Macquarie Street and the General Post Office, Martin Place. This pairing is demonstrative of the contribution of Barnet’s architecture to civic order and indicates that perhaps Barnet’s civic…

What defines public space? There is no concrete answer to that question. Though many scholarly people have tried, it is very hard to limit it to one single definition. To give the reader an idea of what public space is, just think of almost anywhere besides the comfort of your own home. Comfort is something you do not find just anywhere. To feel more comfortable in public spaces, police officers and other law enforcement are used to give you a sense of security. As we all know this is not always…

OOL focussed in social participation in order to solve community problems, this assumption find support on the theory of “Public Space Appropriation”, if the citizens get involved in their community problems and start to get out in the streets and improve their public spaces the levels of crime, drug addiction and insecurity will decrease. A good example is the macro mural of Palmitas, Pachuca, Hidalgo on 2015. With the highest rate of violence on Hidalgo, Palmitas agree to host the project of…

three social disorders, graffiti, youth gangs and alcohol related street based violence. It is agreed among criminologists that the best response to youth deviance is to divert them away from the criminal justice system. Most of the debate surrounding social disorder involves public space. A limitation is that most solutions put forward by, including environmental crime prevention experts increase rather than decrease social exclusion. The best prevention in the crime prevention involves…

this ethical intentionality affected in Public Architecture, where the individual client is substituted by civil society? This research paper aims to investigate a theoretical supposition in the fields of architecture and its ethical ideologies. It pursues new prospects to advise design practitioners and professional institutes by reconsidering interdependence between theory and practice and the influence thereof in substantiating architecture itself as a form of ethical investigation. Within…

regulations, there will always be disagreement until they have proved their worth. As time goes by, the majority will started to support the decisions and take the benefits as granted. Take the history of government action on smoking for demonstration. Some of the actions taken by the government include forbidding advertisement on tobacco, restricting smokers in public space, increased taxes on tobacco, as well as restricting the access have undoubtedly reduce the consumption and exposure rates…