Urban culture

Chapter IV. Urban Legends: The Evolution of Folklore Urban legends are stories that have the designation of being ?too strange to be true? but are based in reality. Despite these fables being a touch on the strange side most people that hear them understand them as being true. Through generations these tales seem to happen to our friends, family members, or even distant relatives. Unlike fairy tales which are meant to be cautionary yet fictional, urban legends represent some form of truth. Think…

establishment and growth in commonality of advocacy consulting firms, community groups, and university planning departments such as the advocacy firm Urban Planning Aid or the Pratt Institute’s Center for Community and Environmental Development . Overall, Jacobs’ influence in community advocacy “showed people around the country that they could fight the urban renewal bulldozer—and win” when empowered enough by the advocacy groups . Again, even though Jacobs did not touch on the topic of social…

free and creative in their clothing and the environments they provide in their stores. They own Free People, Anthropologie, BHLDN, Terrain, Urban Outfitters, and most recently they bought the Vetri Family. URBN is now worth over $1 billion. In 1993, URBN opened up to the public and sold shares at $18; now they are on NASDAQ selling $36.35 per share. The culture at their headquarters in Philadelphia is progressive and made to foster creativity. Within the budding and successful company, they set…

There are many aspects of geography, humans behavior and decisions are affected by physical features of Earth. Some of the things that geography affects are: Urbanization, cultural exchange, and trade. Geography has affected Urbanization in many different ways one of them is by the climate, because it affects where and how a city/country/town will develope. Also, there are geographic factors like demographics meaning how a city is growing. For example, if a city is growing because of…

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…

What are the goals of the “orthodox” urban planners (Garden Cities” theorists, Le Corbusier etc.) whom Jacob criticizes? Jane Jacobs throughout Chapter 1 of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” explains her philosophy regarding urban planning that is centered around using the successes and failures of existing cities as a paradigm for urban planning and design. Jacobs claims that cities “are an immense laboratory of trial and error” in which city planning should be based off of…

The urban culture of a city highly depends upon social interactions and useful spaces that encourage these interactions. Idealising a futuristic city is not out of the ordinary based off urban planning research done throughout the years. Planners are trying to invest time and resources into creating functional spaces for citizens, to minimize evident division and segregation within the city and create a fluid organic functional space that proves to be useful in many situations. Jane Jacobs, an…

The twentieth century was the century of urban revolution. The population of many cities has been growing exponentially, and cities are urbanising rapidly. Hence, many cities like Singapore, New York, and Tokyo are facing the issue of scarcity of land. One might say that many countries have abundant land in the form of forests and farms, which can be transformed into an urban land someday, but land is not created equal. Singapore and Hong Kong are of the most densely populated cities in the…

Delirious New York, he engages the readers through his review and criticism of modern urbanism and architecture. He explores the city of Manhattan as an urban experiment and a field for man made experiences and a platform to the modern life. He demonstrates the concept of “Manhattanism” as a manifestation of urbanism of hyper density created by the man made urban conditions. The first chapter of the book gives the…

status, crime in the urban environment they live in, the schools these children go to all play a major part in why they do not believe they have a chance in furthering their education compared to adolescents who are enrolled in rural or suburban schools. By using mindfulness as a way to understand why this is and how it effects these school aged children and can be used to overcome this major problem in ethnically diverse communities in urban cities. Mindfulness Effects on Urban…