Urban decay

In the movie “the exiles”, Kent Mackenzie illustrates the urban life of a group of young American Indians living in Los Angeles after urban relocation. They struggle to overcome many obstacles and try to survive in the city, yet they all hold their own visions for their city life. Many American Indians left the reserve, hoping to find a good job, a nice home and education for their children (Rocky Mountain PBS). However, when they arrived at the city, they found that everything they knew was…

Though American progressives of the early 20th century were dedicated to issues regarding networked technologies, those efforts were actually based on an interest in cities and urban development. As increasing amounts of the population moved from the countryside into urban areas, cities represented economic, social, and cultural opportunities. They also exposed stark realities that would need to be addressed in order for people to live and work there without hazardous threats. As the…

school 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…

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…

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…

After the loss of the demilitarized zone in 2002 by a Colombian military aided by the United States, the FARC threatened and later shifted violence from the rural regions to urban cities. The FARC started a campaign of assassinations, bombings, and kidnappings of officials in order to grow their terror fueled sphere of influence. The transition from a Marxist insurgency to a drug cartel and indiscriminate attacks on civilians…

Miyoshi city must secure a stable influx of working population, which is feasible by promoting enterprises to launch satellite offices, and start-up companies to base in city. An analysis of economic history of Miyoshi city, evaluation of impacts of urban agglomeration to companies, and a scrutiny of the city’s living condition, will support the validity of this claim. The foremost cause of Miyoshi city’s depopulation crisis lies in rapid deterioration of its industry and agriculture, and…

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…

classified as a town with fewer than 1,000 people per 2.6 square kilometers, and surrounding areas with fewer than 500 people per 2.6 square kilometers (“Rural Area”). This means that rural areas have people and buildings that are few and far between. An urban area, on the other hand, has homes and businesses located very close to one another in a small area (“Rural Area”). Cities are filled with more job opportunities, filled with more exciting entertainment, and filled with more medical…

1. Discuss Activities 1.1(2), 1.2(1), 1.3, 1.4 Activity 1.1: Do you think it would be possible to make a perfect map of a city? What would such a map have to look like? How useful would it be? Making a perfect map of a city wouldn't be possible because it is impossible to make a perfect detailed replica of what a city looks like while also scaling it down. For the map of a city to be absolutely perfect it would also have to be the exact size of the city and then it would be rendered obsolete…