Urban decay

that may result. ‘Urban sprawl’ is such an issue, defined as the ‘expanding of a population from an urban community towards rural areas surrounding the community.’ This expansion is driven by the need to accommodate a city’s growing population and also for financial gains. The issue of urban sprawl has various detrimental impacts that has affected us in environmental, economical, and even health-related ways. How does urban sprawl affect Canada as a whole in the future? First, urban sprawl…

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…

Harland Bartholomew is one of the original municipal planners that influenced the city planning profession from 1914 to present day. Bartholomew’s influence and notability in city planning has three distinct areas (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas include the education of planning professionals, civil service at both the city and national level, and his private practice and advancement of a systematic comprehensive plan (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas tell a story of an individual that had…

Urban sociology studies the life and human interactions in the city. The social life in the twenty first century consists of both the traditional and familiar trends as well as the new developing trends (Sassen, 2006). Hence, living in the cities is always exciting as well as complicated. Dhaka is a city which has a history of more than 400 years. In 1610, Dhaka was named as Jahangirnagar by subedar Islam Khan Chishti. Many of the famous infrastructures were built during the British and Mughal…

1. Introduction Urban greenery is usually being refer as parks or green space but others also claimed that it include rooftop, household garden and streetscape. In this millennium, the cities all over the world are increasingly urbanized. An in burst of immigrants from rural areas to cities is causing the cities to become congested and polluted. The rapidly expanding population and overcrowded slum have hasten the urban development where old buildings are demolished and deforestation is carried…

states that some companies would like to make the urban as their headquarters in today’s world. Moreover, Mara specifically describes that the drawbacks and benefit for the tech companies built headquarters in urban areas. According to Mara, there are some negative impact if the headquarter of a company was built in the city. Firstly, there are serious burden on public transport when more and more company built their headquarters in the center of urban areas. Moreover, Mara explain this by…

Density is a controversial term. Increased density is feared by those who imagine ugly buildings, overshadowed open space, parking problems, and irresponsible residents. It is promoted by those who value urbane streetscapes, efficient infrastructure supply, walkable neighborhoods, and increased housing options. However, within these debates is a surprising lack of clarity about what counts when considering density, and about how to measure it. This design brief outlines a number of general…

Compact cities can prevent many problems that urban sprawl brings to cities. The United States, unlike the UK or Japan, has encouraged urban sprawl with its policies based on the free market capitalism. As a result, in American cities, as suburbanization accerelates, economic segregation has also been expanded and thus, many economic and social inequality issues have been emerged. In contrast to a compact city, which is highly dense and mixed-use, urban sprawl is explained as a low-density land…

the development of specific proposals (Macdonald, 2008). This system allowed the firm to apply Bartholomew’s science to each community (Lovelace, 1993). Eldridge Lovelace, employee and author of Harland Bartholomew: His Contributions to American Urban Planning, believed that it was this systematic approach that established Bartholomew as an authority in the planning profession. Lovelace states that: “The application of an orderly and logical system or science to the preparation of the…

She seemed excited to have a visitor who was interested in the town 's history. I asked her about the urban renewal project that modernized the town 36 years ago. She brought out some documents, but I didn 't have the time to plow through them. I just wanted to know why they bulldozed the downtown and replaced it with strip malls instead of trying to preserve…