Urban decay

There is a major competition between the inner city and suburban life, though I am of the belief that urban development should take a page from suburban developers because they should look at their communities from the outside in. The author believes this because the greatest disadvantage of the city is not its own problems, but the extreme competence and…

By Mia Knudsen, 10.i What is urbanisation? Urbanisation is the process of increase of population in urban areas. As a country develops urbanisation increases due to people being attracted to the benefits of living in an urban area. These benefits include job opportunities, better standards of living, better healthcare, and better schools. 90% of the UKs population is currently living in urban areas like towns or cities. (BBC Bitesize, 2014) Along with the benefits, urbanisation has several…

The Impact of Gentrification in Major Urban Cities In Fortress Los Angeles Mike Davis discusses how corporations redevelopment of major urban cities has led to gentrification. Davis refers to the term gentrification as, "Extraordinary precautions … taken to ensure the physical separation of the different classes" (509). Gentrification zones through the city have widened the gap between the the socioeconomic classes that exist in society, resulting in a displacement of a large number of…

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…

The Effects of Growth Management on Housing Affordability Urban planners have theorized and advocated for the practice of various growth management techniques in order to employ smart growth and curb urban sprawl. Growth management frameworks include urban containment methods that restrict where development may occur, impact fees which require developers to cover environmental and infrastructural costs, and design guidelines that promote higher densities and more diverse development types and…

William H. Whyte is best known for The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces a textbook study of behaviour in public space. Set mainly in 1970s Midtown Manhattan, the book and associated documentary concentrated on how people interacted with the physical design of modernist public space. His focus was on “exchange, the most vital measure of the city’s intensity”. Lesser known is Whyte’s commitment to theoretical framing for understanding this intensity and how his research into the behaviour of…

and/or water body & its importance in Urban areas. An urban area is characterized by high human population density and vast human-built features. Thus rises the need of relief spaces in the dense urban matrix. They can be any kind of open spaces or water body, green belts-manmade or natural. Urban Morphology of cities show the gradual decrease and decease of open spaces with the process of urbanization. Open spaces are mandatory for the sustenance of an urban area. They provide recreational and…

housing. Urban housing, especially for the urban poor will become a major challenge in the future. If we do not plan for the future challenges right now, we will be faced with the ticking time bomb. We will have an overflowing population without access to the basic public services that they need. In…

The biggest challenge facing urban planners, especially in California, is recovering from the elimination of redevelopment in 2012. Redevelopment agencies (RDAs) were originally put in place to revitalize rundown properties and turn them into physical attractions and economic machines. The land that was eventually developed would then later be sold at a fair market value to developers who thought big on what projects to construct that were also consistent with a city’s development goals and…

phenomon of sprawl in the United States. Urban sprawl existed long before this time but the U.S. took this idea and ran with it. Social needs and economic policies ramped up the spread of domestic sprawl. There are volumes of research that link urban sprawl with increased vehicle travel, material use, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. Although there is a considerable amount of empirical data that coorelates these increases from an urban sprawl lifestyle with negative…