Skyscraper

With this prosperity and possibility came jobs. Still largely a rural society, Americans increasingly moved to the city looking for work, armed with a belief in the possibilities and a strong work ethic. Alongside them came nearly a half-million immigrants in 1900, also seeking a better life. America's Industrial Revolution produced much prosperity and leisure, but also much poverty and disillusionment. Tycoons such as J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie amassed fortunes greater than many European…

got up to hug me. My mom was upset because she wanted to pick my sister and I up from school but the school wouldn’t allow parents to pick up their children. I didn’t know much about what was going on, I just kept seeing pictures and videos of skyscrapers with black smoke pouring out of them. I didn’t fully realize the implications of what had happened until later in my life. The image of my mom quietly…

economic deprived still take to the favelas outskirts. The city is not chock-a-block exhibiting striking must-sees with, myriad museums and ever-changing art exhibitions. Lovely parklands are also interspersed between countless shops, malls and skyscrapers. There are more pizzerias in the town than any Italian city, with diverse national cuisines and loads of restaurants, Sao Paulo is never short of culinary choices. The staple food may be rice, beans and pork. A number of immigrant recipes…

recreation. This park also does not try to block out the city but takes advantage of the beautiful skyline that surrounds it. It also creates the illusion that Chicago is a city in a garden from some angles, especially when it appears that there are skyscrapers rising up behind trees and grass. One addition that would be helpful and take advantage of the skyline would be to add more hills. While it would not give the same sensation of escape, it would still be as peaceful as the other parks to…

They called it the Magic City, the Gateway to Latin America or the Cocaine Capital but to me it is the city of opposites. From the Downtown's skyscrapers' vertigo to be insecure in Overtown or Little Haiti, from being treated like a royalty in its exquisite restaurants to food truck weddings, from brilliant pastel Art Deco buildings to powerful red, blue or black grafitti walls, Miami transforms everything and everybody in matter of seconds. There is a piece of the city for everyone: the sports…

society as a whole (Hobson, 1999). Gottdiener and Budd (2005) explain these principles as, ‘encouraging the zoning of like functions in to segregated districts’ as well as placing ‘an emphasis on transport corridors, and a preference for high rise skyscraper buildings surrounded by open space’ which is evident in many modern cities such as Melbourne. Post-modernity opposes the homogenous functional zoning and the sharp edges…

Catch Of My Life Over my shoulder, the ball was spinning through the air, ripping through the wind, and the crowd goes completely silent. As I feel the defender breathing down my back the pressure on me to make this catch intensifies knowing that this touchdown will help the team, and hopefully win this game. My mouth is dry, legs are feeling like lead, will I have enough power to leap and cross the goal line. The blood is rushing through my veins, my heart is pumping faster, and faster.…

As grandiose as the production design was for its time Metropolis, set designer huge sets to show the hellish factories of the subterranean world. The models of the city's towering skyscrapers are also surprisingly convincing for a 1920s film. Even beyond the expansive production design and (for the time) special effects, Lang's visuals are all consistently inventive. The robot Maria provides some of the movie's most iconic images, including her transformation into a human being. In a later…

The two cities both have beautiful buildings and artwork. The cities have uniquely designed buildings like the vintage Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the towering skyscrapers in Chicago. They pay attention to details, from wood carvings on the cathedral in Paris, to the steel framework on the towers in Chicago. Paris and Chicago also offer art museums that have famous works of art ranging from Vincent Van Gogh to Leonardo…

Early in the nineteenth century, Andrew Carnegie was considered a captain of industry for his vast empire of steel. Carnegie would build his empire from the ground up, literally, by investing in skyscrapers, railroads, and steel. Andrew would become one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time when he sold his Carnegie Steel corporation to J.P. Morgan. As America grew in industry, it needed an increase in steel. Carnegie realized this need and acted upon it making America a world of…