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William H. Whyte is best known for The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces a textbook study of behaviour in public space. Set mainly in 1970s Midtown Manhattan, the book and associated documentary concentrated on how people interacted with the physical design of modernist public space. His focus was on “exchange, the most vital measure of the city’s intensity”. Lesser known is Whyte’s commitment to theoretical framing for understanding this intensity and how his research into the behaviour of…

Built and designed by Alexendre-Gustave Eiffel in 1887 the Eiffel tower can be considered as one of the most incredible engineering feats ever created. However now project ever gets executed without complications and the Eiffel tower is a good example of this. This report will discuss several aspects of the engineering process of the Eiffel tower. The engineering problem statement of the Eiffel tower was to build a suitable monument for the Paris World’s fair which would commemorate the French…

The idea of maintaining an idealistic image of what a woman should be can be daunting for many women. In the novel written by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar is a feminist classic as it entails the struggle that the main character, Esther Greenwood, faces as she battles relationships, motherhood and the ideal image of women brought to her by the magazine internship she works at, all while slowly losing her sanity. Esther unravels and begins to show signs of her mental illness early on. High-class…

Alvin Ailey was an American choreographer who was born in Rodgers, Texas but made his way to New York City through the years of his life. Before beginning on his own company Ailey studied and observed many other choreographers. For example, he observed Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. He also was a student at Lester Horn’s dance school for many years. Ailey indulged very well in Horton’s style of dance and it displayed once Horton died. Alvin took lead as the company’s director. With the…

Charles Dickens’ Bleak House is considered to be “one of the most urban texts of the most urban novelists” (Griffith 248). Bleak House uses a variety of urban spaces to progress the plot and build relationships between characters who would otherwise have no reason to interact. The novel first establishes the reader in the panoramic view of London. In the early Victorian era, London was expanding and becoming more industrial. London was a mixture of slums and palaces, law courts and graveyards,…

I had a wonderful time in New York; it was fun from the beginning to the end. I first got ready to pack my clothes and everything that was need for the trip. I was so excited for this, I waited for this a long time and I was ready to go and have fun. We drove to the airport than we parked are car, than I grabbed two bags than my brother grabbed two and my sister grabbed two as well. Than we took a shuttle to the airport, finally there, the check-in line was long there were a lot of people. I was…

The Destination That We Journey In Driving towards the large concrete highway, up ahead was the large edifice of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. Notably famous for its modern exterior design, I felt the jittery feeling of excitement course through me. Getting down, I hurriedly placed my bag on the airport trolley my dad handed to me. Pushing the trolley towards the airport, my fingers were quivering from excitement. My mom had announced three months prior that we were…

The suburbs are envisioned to be spacious, uniform, and clean— epitomes of the American dream— while cities are often deemed crowded and dirty concrete jungles. However, the sight of busy streets filled with honking and yelling, a Walmart or McDonalds on every corner, and people rushing from home to work and work to home provides a sense of calmness that cannot be found in the suburbs. The city signifies people toiling to build and advance their careers, while the suburbs signify…

musical. They had the idea of writing a deep meaning musical which would show people what real life was all about. The original idea was for a Jewish girl and a Catholic boy to fall in love. This theme however changed when the Puerto Ricans moved into New York and the story line was altered to focus rather on an American-Puerto Rican love story. The two pieces “Maria” and “Tonight” are both spectacular works from “West Side Story”. “Maria” was the song that became the story’s focal point in the…

popular culture, and its music is considered to be one of the most popular and powerful genres. In it’s origins, It gave voices to the youth of the 70’s and 80s, and gave them relevance in a world that otherwise wouldn’t through their paintings on New York subways that went “all-city”. Youth and even other, older, individuals with voices that were unheard were eventually heard through all means of Hip-Hop as well. The Hip-Hop movement that started in the 1970’s and gained great popularity in the…