Urban areas

for criminals to engage the “shady life.” Nowadays, stated by the UN, 54 percent of people live in metropolitan areas, where it is bustling with strangers. Interestingly, urbanites try to maximize…

What did you find compelling, interesting, valuable in Mumford’s approach? What would you disagree with? Most importantly, were you convinced by his vision of the good city and his prescriptions for urban design? In the chapter about the myth of Megapolis, Mumford provides his insights about some negative trends that many cities were expereicning during his time period such as city sprawls and giantism, and power centralization. These ideas are still effective after several decades that they…

Kenneth Jackson contends in Crabgrass Frontier, that the development of the skyscraper with the telephone and elevator emphasized the vigor of the American city in the 19th century, “but the extraordinary prosperity and vitality of most urban cores between 1890 and 1950 cannot be understood without reference to the streetcar systems.” Unlike cable cars or the railroad, streetcars highlighted the business district and connected the people to the heart of the city. The streetcar enabled…

Balzac and the Little Seamstress follows two boys that have to be re-educated during the Maoist Revolution up in a small village. They meet a Seamstress and find banned books with Western ideas to read to each other. Grass on the Rooftop is a story of a boy that is being re-educated that is believed to have saved a picture of Mao and becomes famous and travels around. Both stories have to do with re-education and how people from this time feel and background information to Maoism and China at…

According to the lecture from week ten, the definition of urban area is the field where it is surrounding a city and it has a high population density. Most of the urban areas are well-developed meaning there is a condensed collection of human structures, such as buildings, public infrastructure, real estate, labour markets, sites of production and consumption. In the book The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, it shows the book occurs in the future and it has negative affects about the…

In 2012, when the Premier of the State Council, Li Keqiang, said to the People’s Daily that, “Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of the cities. More importantly it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment, and social security” (Bloomberg). A Streetcar Named Desire is a play centered in New Orleans surrounding the struggles between the Kowalski family and Blanche.…

is 25 years+, increasing the number of older women having children with less of a range of child bearing years. The 1950s had the healthiest generation to date that far in American history. Throughout this time, urban downtown areas began declining due to the large move to suburban areas, they wanted to restrict access in these suburban…

the peripheral regions, respectively. No economically progressing country has ever been able to avert its occurrence, which is inevitable and challenging. The daunting task of intelligently designing and confirming sanity and sustainability for an urban canvas is a multidimensional and multi / cross disciplinary endeavour. This demands retrospective understanding of the place and its people; anticipatory sense to forecast and strategize; and awareness about the practices worldwide and…

The Lancaster – Kiest Corridor, the major arterial spine running through the area, is anchored by two major developments, the Lancaster- Kiest Shopping Center and the Dallas VA Medical Center. Lancaster Road is edged with small format commercial uses along its entire length, such as fast food restaurants, auto repair shops, banking…

proglottids are ingested. Once the eggs are hatched, they become an onchospheres that penetrates the intestinal wall allowing the cysticercus to form in different organs throughout the body. Cysticercosis is primarily found in low-social economic areas in Latin America, Asia, and Africa within insalubrious…