Street furniture

It was a nice warm day on the beach in Southern California, where there was an egg. “What do I hear? Is that a voice? Let’s listen to hear what is being said.” “Hello! Hello, it’s dark in here. I have been in the dark for a long time, if I can only find a door.” Timmy started beating on the sides of the shell with his flipper, all of a sudden; he had made a crack in it. “What’s this, I see, light?” Timmy hit the crack over and over again. The more he hit the crack the…

When I saw a homeless person on the streets in Las Vegas, I sat next to him and initiated a conversation. Imagine having nothing to work with. No home, no food, no education. Most of you reading this essay, have never experienced this. I myself have never experienced it either but what I do know is that everybody likes to be recognized in their own way. Some people want to be the center of everything. They want the spotlight in the world, and some people just want to be noticed.…

block were filled with toppling houses, construction rubbish and abandoned furniture. Artists chose to paint on the abandoned buildings as the council showed not much care nor restrictions for this strict. Most artwork here was done in almost exquisite styles and were likely from the hands of local Shanghai elites who bear a complicated feeling towards this fast developing city and their childhood memories. Unlike the street artists in Melbourne, the local artists knew well of the destined…

When I think of my Italian heritage, the first place that comes to mind is the Ninth Street Italian Market in Philadelphia. I think of all the different family owned butcher shops, bakeries, specialty cheese shops, restaurants and more that have been in business longer than I have been alive. At one time, this outdoor market was an urban enclave in which mainly Italian and Jewish immigrants worked, lived and raised their families. Today, while this outdoor market has become diversified with…

Sharon Zukin’s “A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook” explores upon the impact of consumer culture on the two types of globalization: street food vendors and IKEA in Red Hook to explain the diverse and complicated concept of authenticity and the circumstances revolving around the authentic urban experience. For the most part, Zukin concentrates on the changes of consumer culture and trends and how they affect the physical layout of the urban space (e.g., restaurants, markets, and…

designing and selling ready-to-assemble furniture, appliances and home accessories. “In 1943, Ingvar Kamprad founded the company in Sweden.”(IKEA 2015) The company's name is an acronym that contains the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the name of the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (the name of Ingvar’s hometown in Småland, south Sweden). “Ikea was founded as a mostly mail-order sales business, which has been developed by its owner to vend furniture five years later on. In 1958,…

conditions there is a need for organisation to: create, oversee, execute and screen an arrangement of very much characterized strategies for the management of supply chain. Brief on IKEA: IKEA is a global organization which outlines and offers furniture and home items. The IKEA idea was established in 1943 by a Swedish business visionary Ingvar Kamprad who was just 17 years of age. The name IKEA originates from Ingvar Kamprad and Elmtaryd Agunnaryd which are the names of the homestead and the…

art. She encourages readers to look into the deeper meanings of public art. Once a reader is looking past the obvious function of art, they can begin to appreciate the multiple uses that monuments have. “Functioning variously as photo op, street furniture, playground, kiosk, or meeting place; understood in terms of the already familiar or linked to known references from visual culture, public art is reframed by its immediate audience to fit the parameters of everyday life” (197). While her…

The decades following the Civil War were a time of explosive growth for the United States, by the end of the Nineteenth century American economic wealth dwarfed that of its former colonial overseers. With this growth came challenges, the growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor led to deplorable and unsafe working conditions as the demand for production and more wealth for business owners became a more powerful motivator than human life and safety. This increase in economic success had…

Poverty in Homelife, Work, and Social life; the Effect it has on Women in Guilded Age New York City and it 's Correlation to Maggie by Stephen Crane The Guilded Age was the time period from around 1890 to 1920. It was a time period of massive immigration to American cities, urbanization, and industrialization. There were large changes to the economy around the country but the places affected the most were the larger cities, for example, New York City. With an influx of population in these…