Urban areas

most needed occurred when people changed their thinking. Known as the paradigm shift of understanding, it was when rational thinking occurred and industry, the nation state and rights of an individual were considered and adopted (Reeves, Introduction Urban Planning: UPLAN 100G/101, 2015). Advancements in transport, building material, science and more meant planners could extent the limits of their design and scale of their plans. Therefore planning is heavily influenced by technology and…

in large urban areas. The jobs in these cities are in a large abundance in most cases that is. The schooling in large cities is much better when it comes to the focus on academics. When you look at small towns in the U.S. the schools focus a lot on sports like football. Where large…

Late eighteenth and early nineteenth century marked a time of great urbanization in America. Between 1860 and 1910, the population of cities increased from six million to forty-four million. Two factors had contributed to such growth: industrialization and immigration. Industrialization yielded new technologies that performed farm work at a more efficient rate than what was possible before with only humans and animals. This, therefore, reduced the amount of laborers required. Unable to compete…

authoritarian system. At this era, the administrative system was set into a hierarchical system; from the higher level to the lowest level namely central government, provinces, cities (kota) and rural regencies (kabupaten), districts (kecamatan), and urban neighborhoods (kelurahan) and villages (desa); with a large number of military officer designated in many administrative positions. Yet, the central government was implemented a tight control of administration on the lower level of government…

The rapid growth of urban areas in developing countries is causing a large debate on whether it is overall beneficial or harmful to the countries and societies that they are located in. In 2000 two billion people in the developing world lived in cities, by 2030 it is expected to be around five billion. The cities that are growing the fastest are located in Asia and Africa. The question of whether this is a positive impact is rooted in how it will affect the poverty level. There is mass poverty…

As crime rates continue to grow, there is one crime many parents fear. Their child being kidnapped and never found. Kidnaped is someone taking you away by force. The chances of you being kidnapped is higher in a populated urban area than in a countryside. For example, in today’s culture, movies and television series displays many kidnaping. The most famous kidnaping movie is titled “Taken”. In Taken, the daughter of Bryan Mills was abducted from a hotel in later found in London. Bryan Mills had…

A community environment serves an important function in shaping our personal development and belief system. The community an individual grows up in says a lot about that individual as a person. With strengths, comes weaknesses and every community differs in many ways. The community I grew up in may differ from the community others lived in, and that’s what makes us all unique and different from one another. No matter if you live on Grand View Drive or you live on the south side of Chicago each…

‘London is being made over by an urban centred middle class’ • Briefly explain the points you’re going to address in the essay. Impacts: Positive (700 words approx.): • Renewal of a rundown area - The previously deprived area is rejuvenated, creating a nicer place to live for the local residents. • Increased property prices - Rejuvenation makes the area more desirable and therefore property value and rental prices increase. This is a positive thing for home owners in the area. Also boosts city…

than 50 years now, a drastic change in the population transitioning from cities to the suburbs has been occurring. After 1950, this movement originally gained momentum and become the leading demographic style for nearly all-crucial U.S. metropolitan areas. This migration has pushed many more Americans to live in the suburbs now than any other location in the states. Today, a good amount of middle-class African Americans have moved out to the suburbs but the most common people who branch out…

As society develops and changes with modernity so to does the flow of the city, residential and rural areas. Due to the rise in suburbia and the bourgeois commuter there has been altered movements within the city changing the original purpose of the city and promoting collective groups of communities that exist on the edge of a larger city. Suburbanization grew in the times of the Depression and WWII as well as the developments of technology. Automobiles became available which allowed people to…