Urban areas

For centuries, urban planning has played a key role in developing human well-being as well as protecting the environment, public welfare and especially residents. Houses, schools, parks, buildings, surrounding environment including transportation, air, water and infrastructure affect people’s lives. Therefore, it is undeniable that prosperity and advancement in terms of security and healthcare are major requirements to many people living in cities. What comes after this is the question of what…

process of raising population growth in cities and rural, it also includes the rise of industrialization. The government, industry and business deal in urban areas are involved.The United States and Europe had started their urbanization since the 19th century. On the other hand, by the end of 2014, 54.7% of China’s total population live in the urban areas, which is a rate that rose from 26% in 1990. They are currently experiencing a rapid increase. Yet, urbanization has many benefits. For…

communities. For instance, in the period of 1961-1991 Mississauga experienced big changes related to transportation. Mississauga Data states that the constructions of the highway 401, lakeshore road, and GO train allowed the city to be more accessible. Areas like Brampton and Caledon,…

Societies around the globe are experiencing an overwhelming wave of urban growth; it is this urbanization that allows for the modern world to undergo such an extensive demographic transition as cities become the core of our future. In his best-selling novel, Planet of Slums, Mike Davis highlights one key obstacle of urban success: the uprise of the informal working class, more commonly known as the slums. Firstly, Davis analyzes how slums have caused four main macroscale shifts between societies…

school, was the geographical area. According to Anyon (1980), the two working-class schools as well as the middle class school all had the commonality of being located in an urban area. Presumably many of the parents…

farming 8,000 years back, we started to change the area. What 's more, with the mechanical upset, we started to influence our climate. The late increment on the planet 's populace has amplified the impacts of our horticultural and financial exercises. Be that as it may, the development in world populace has conceal what might be a considerably more essential human-ecological collaboration: While the world 's populace is multiplying, the world 's urban populace is tripling. Inside of the…

can bring about variations in the social and cultural construct of any location. Socio-cultural changes among urban communities inevitably lead to changes in attitude, worldview, and way of life of urban folks and this is something foreseeable (Ahmad, Z., Ahmad, N., & Abdullah, H., 2009). The characterization of urbanization in the minds of every individual might differ in certain areas but ultimately leads to an impression of positive changes in living conditions. With urbanization in mind,…

a working environment towards a more global and tourist attraction space. People began to commute from suburb to city (Hollow, 2011). The coming of the streetcar in 1888 changed the spatial configuration of many urban areas from that of a compact city to that of a star shaped urban area. This influx in traffic flow created havoc on the routes to and from the suburbs. Rush hour…

expansion of urban cities; however, there are certain consequences that arise from sprawl that indicate that it is actually quite detrimental to many aspects of everyday living. The result of sprawl and its creation of suburban communities have directly contributed to the constant congestion of automobiles on the road and to the ecological destruction of land. This destruction of land is as equally devastating as the social disengagement…

On December 23, 2016, This American Life originally aired Act One: Lopsided Tannenbaum, which was a piece of fiction read by the author, Maile Meloy. The story begins with a husband and wife, along with their four year-old daughter, Anne Marie, returning home from collecting a lopsided Christmas tree when they happen upon a couple stranded in the snow, one of which is holding a broken ski. Everett, the husband, stopped to assist the couple and see what they needed, Bonnie and Clyde. As Everett…