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The [IN]sertion project consists of 7 principles 8.1 Imageability “The successful town is not the one that attracts outsiders; it’s the one that survives them with its character in tact”-David Rudlin Main Road: Whilst the aim is to integrate a new campus within the existing fabric, it is understood that the setting is not a tabula rasa. The function of the urban campus is to then improve and orientate through bringing prominence to Main Road as a Campus Street. This street is a sort of…

Downtown Worcester is comprised of office buildings, clothing stores, restaurants, small cafes, and governmental offices such as City hall and Worcester Federal building. The common oval serves as the center location for big events that takes place throughout the year. Few weeks ago, Worcester held their first Pow Wow event at the common oval, where artist from all over the world came to display their artwork. During our walk, we saw few of the murals on the street that was painted during the…

accurate to a large extent, upon further research I discovered that the area consisted of a far greater variety of elements. For instance, due to deindustrialization, the area is currently in a state of transformation from heavy industry, such as steel and gravel production, to advanced technology and green enterprise. In addition, the land use in the region is far more versatile than my first impression indicated, and the area does not only serve as a place of employment but it is also the a…

Today, over half of the world’s 7 billion population are living in urban environments with this number forecasted to increase to 2/3 by 2030 (UN 2004). The development of urban areas involves destruction of forests and other native bird habitats, which can lead to a loss of diversity and abundance of birds and native plants that can no longer survive in the new environment. This is troubling as birds perform certain ecosystem services, services humans can benefit from, such as pollination,…

The Government is divided into many layers, but is still a one big connected piece, just like a spider web. Without one of them, the Government would fall apart. Each layer plays a different role and supports a different system as far as the society is concerned. As each layer is peeled off, the governing system gets smaller and smaller. These layers escalate starting from the smallest governing body, Crestwood School District, up to city Government, County Government, State Government, and…

Driving is an activity that is common. Some areas have heavier congestion than others. Externalities are associated with various areas in the economy including congested roads. The answer to this question will focus on externalities associated with additional individual's driving on a congested road. This question will also give some ideas on how tolls may help alleviate this externality, where tolls are not helpful, and how they may be set. Externalities in the field of economics are either…

The Burnham Plan of Chicago, a bold plan for the Chicago metropolitan region, was established by Daniel Burnham, Edward Bennett and the Commercial Club of Chicago in 1909. Chicago was struggling with growing as a mature economy center in the United States with its old-fashioned and irrational city plan. Thanks to the Burnham Plan of 1909, one the most iconic city plan in the world, effectively improves the layout and the overall functions of Chicago. Not only benefited businesses, government,…

thus, many economic and social inequality issues have been emerged. In contrast to a compact city, which is highly dense and mixed-use, urban sprawl is explained as a low-density land development pattern that characterized by the separation of residential from commercial land uses (Dreier, Mollenkopf, & Swanstrom, 2014, p. 54). In this sense, Dreier, Mollenkopf and Swanstrom equalize the term “urban sprawl” with suburbanization. Even…

Introduction Today, urban centers around the world are driving forces for the vast majority of the global economy. With the opportunities these large urban areas offer, more and more people are moving into densely populated areas. In 2014, the United Nation’s reported that around 54% of the global population live in an urban area. In America, the urban population is over 80% of the total population, and is growing at the rate of 1% per year, which equates to over 3 million new urban Americans…

growth” in order to fix the issues of sprawl, which necessitates suburban communities converting the area in front of their homes to buildings for rent or for places of business, and the building of affordable town homes and apartments on desolate parking lots where underachieving stores are located (Brown & Burns, 2006). In principal, it appears that the only cure for sprawl is to keep residential homes, businesses, and shopping centers compact. By conforming to this compact way of living,…