Residential area

Seattle was first founded by the Denny Party in 1851, who were mapping the Western area of the United States. The group first settled and established a town, which they called New York-Alki. A little while later, the party moved a short distance across Elliott Bay, where they founded the town of Seattle. The town was named after a Duwamish Indian leader named Sealth that the Denny Party had befriended. The town of Seattle would soon grow into the major city that it is today. The current dynamic…

In their general plan, the city of Tempe has included a table which shows there existing residential density as of December of 2003. The city also provided projected numbers for the city’s density in 2030. The basic trend of the projected density table is to move away from the single family residential homes. These low density homes have one to three dwelling units per acre. As of December of 2003, the city of Tempe had 63,375 dwelling units with…

of time, Toronto CMA seems that will continue to spread out over suburban areas bringing challenges to the city specifically in terms of transportation. Behan states that transportation has encouraged imbalance in sprawl of housing and jobs which result in long commutes, increase of fuel energy and therefore air contamination. In addition, private transportation has become an essential good for residents in suburban areas due to long travels. As people have the needed of using cars, public…

clarity about what counts when considering density, and about how to measure it. This design brief outlines a number of general considerations in measuring density and then proposes twenty measures that quantify different aspects of place such as residential population and dwelling density, and the intensity of building on a site. Some of the measures are easy to use in practice,…

reinforce the positive characteristics of important places, enhance access, strengthen connections, and create a setting for new investment. While many areas of downtown are now experiencing significant reinvestment and new vibrancy, barriers and holes in the fabric separate these pockets into isolated areas of activity surrounded by large areas of surface parking and vacant lots. Opportunities: The Queen City Hub established an action plan for downtown by identifying for new growth and…

streetcar enabled mobilization so people had more choices about where to live which triggered growth outside of the city. Jackson further illustrates this point stating, “the tracks radiated out from the center like spokes on a wheel, tying residential areas far distant to the…

emerging growth centre anticipating dense residential and mixed-use development. Surrounding the site include: an office building; the Scarborough Centre Rapid Transit Station; the Scarborough Town Centre Shopping Mall with 120,000 m2 (1,291,670 sq. ft.) of retail space; the Scarborough Civic Centre; and a major civic square - Albert Campbell Square. The broader Scarborough Centre area is also home to a variety of other retail, commercial and residential uses, parks,…

The medieval city of Tehran was prototypical of most Iranian-Islamic cities. It had a bazaar, a citadel for political matters, a Friday mosque and residential neighborhoods (Sintusingha and Mirgholami 2013, 122-132). Cul-de-sacs were used to separate family from public spaces. Tehran was not blessed with great open spaces and had no overall plan compared to Isfahan being known for its urban developments…

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 rapid globalization. For Low, gated communi-ties and other forms of residential development behind walls are a spatial form that offers an escape for some of the citizens. Analyzing why…

its high population density and continuously rising cost of living stemming from a high demand for housing, goods, and services. Immigrants and people moving from rural areas will opt to relocate to the suburbs where housing, goods, and services are more affordable [8]. Businesses, realizing the potential for growth in these areas, may choose to relocate to or expand in the suburbs. In Vaughan for example, the services being provided cater to the needs of the family-oriented community as well as…