The City

planners that influenced the city planning profession from 1914 to present day. Bartholomew’s influence and notability in city planning has three distinct areas (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas include the education of planning professionals, civil service at both the city and national level, and his private practice and advancement of a systematic comprehensive plan (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas tell a story of an individual that had a profound impact on the city planning profession…

flower to the lack of nature of New York City. New York City sometimes referred to as the capital of the world. The city has a low concentration of nature. Nature can only be found in places such as Central Park or Battery park, but even there you can see the lack of nature considering everything is so organized and nicely placed, a clear evidence of human touch. New York City should have more nature around and in it. More nature around would give the city life, natural life. The graffiti I…

Jacob is thinking that if neighborhoods and planning is a successful process the city life is not as bad a people think. She thinks in a way that if a system works, don’t ruin it. She is big into thinking that if residents take responsibility of the pros and cons in the city then things can go smoothly with improving and planning new things. I think the perspective was old when Jacobs was writing this because housing projects were still prominent back then and now they are not as big. The…

New York City by implementing the different incentive schemes aimed at curbing the development of high density communities, provision of adequate public facilities, reducing public budgets by shifting maintenance costs to developers and creation of a vibrant urban center well connected by plazas, pedestrian walks and such. However, such schemes need to be readjusted to avoid unwanted results such as oversupply and high vacancy rates. Due to its success in achieving these objectives 17.2% of…

the way cities were constructed in both physical and social aspects of their environments. For the first time in American history, a fresh and innovative, at the time radical, movement sprung up due to the observations and claims that Jacobs proposed in her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. During the 1950’s, modernism had already become an established (and universally accepted) ethos in American city planning. Jane Jacobs witnessed the shortcomings of the modernist city…

With rising land prices there are less green spaces in the city even with restrictive laws in place. Tehran was once filled with gardens, but urbanization destroyed them. Courtyards used to employ most of the green space in the city. However, when the new apartments were being constructed they were not designed to have any green spaces. Urban sprawl breaks up the relationship between humans and the environment. Sprawl causes an increase in city commuting time. In 1980 Tehran’s government was…

Designing a More Inclusive City The article by Allison Arief on the need to build an inclusive city that accommodates the needs of the people gives us a good example to demonstrate the presence of the argumentative aspects in logic. To understand her arguments well, we must delve into the deeper meaning of the article. The first logical fallacy that is articulated in the article is that people tend to sit where there are places to sit. The author goes on to support this claim by citing…

I am going to focus on the issue of growth in cities and what I found interesting in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. According to the reading on The City as a Growth Machine by Logan Molotch, “one issue consistently generates consensus among local elite groups and separates them from people who use the city principally as a place to live and work: the issue of growth.” Meaning that the local elites in these cities are divided from those who are not considered…

Mengdi Ec330 6.4.2016 How Cities Make People Richer Glaesar introduces his book by explaining that cities are made of flesh, rather than concrete. The city has triumphed in economic and technological ways through the provision of opportunities that lead to a further increase in opportunities. It is a foundation that Glaesar bases his arguments, especially in the aspect of how cities have made people richer by the minute. Being an elaborate and renowned economist, Glaesar centers his arguments on…

migrate to cities? Well there is an array of answers which will be covered in this essay. The number of people internally migrating, moving to cities from rural areas within a country is growing, also known as urbanisation (Procupez, 2015). The sovereign state of the United Kingdom (UK) I will use as a case study due to the rapid rate of urbanisation that has occurred up until present. The main points covered will be, what is believed to be the main reason which caused people to move to cities…