Urban culture

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…

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…

setting is not a tabula rasa. The function of the urban campus is to then improve and orientate through bringing prominence to Main Road as a Campus Street. This street is a sort of promenade made to be recognisable as distinct, grabbing attention and creating a lasting impression. -Main Road is walkable -Street furniture, lighting and landscaping are used to create a distinct quality of urban environment -Built form is sensitive to local culture although robust…

Research has shown that for more 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…

living for urban poor, has been a failure. Due to the decline of the city at the time public housing arose, racism, and the failure of the federal…

Nowadays, the average age to get married 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…

is a connector for all humans, not just artists and their world. Whether the audience realizes it or not, local art is a force that often brings people of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles together. Cities as diverse as New York City benefit from the constant stimuli of art. Art takes multiple forms in urban spaces, including graffiti, murals, art museums, and commemorative statues. Within the article Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation, author…

For Prakash, the modern city is a “landscape of modernity”, or a setting where local and transnational actors can meet and interact, as well as transcend boundaries of race, culture and identity. De Certeau’s vision of the city is intrinsically bound up, with the history of a city’s inhabitants and their interactions, past and present, with the city’s buildings, streets and public settings. The “memories” of a “bakery” or the…

factors affecting urban morphology, and then focus on social factors, from the micro and macro perspectives to explore the impact of social factors on the city. Taking China's siheyuan as an example, the essay will analyze how the urban architectural form is affected by the social factors in detail. Finally, draw conclusions and explore how contemporary architectural design can draw on the above experience. Background Natural factors are one of the main factors influencing the urban…

Tactics Through the use of photo ethnography observational research was found to provide insight. Positive and negative attributes were found through this process. This research focused on the Suburban areas of Oakville and Windsor, in comparison to the urban regions of Montreal and Toronto. In both Instances, places like libraries, coffee shops and community…