Urban design

true public parks. After the parks construction the people started to shape and build the park into what it is today. Central Park began as a commission project in which Vaux convinced the officials to hold a competition for its design because he really did not like the design by the Chief Engineer for the park, Egbert L. Viele. Vaux was native to England, the birthplace…

a. The Schuylkill Center allows visitors to experience nature spiritually. It was first built with the vision of providing children living in an urban area, a place to learn and experience nature. The land the Center owns is protected by the Nature Land Trust, allowing nature to be conserved. The trails near the Center are full of wildlife and where people can escape and find their spirituality. b. The Magic Gardens is a work of art, spanning a few blocks in Philadelphia. The artist used…

Iris Young, a 20th century political theorist, believes that “the powerless have little or no autonomy, exercise little creativity or judgement,..have no..authority, express themselves awkwardly, especially in public, and do not command respect.” After reading Marguerite Bouvards "Taking Space: Women and Political Power," I have come to conclude that this is not the case, and believe that civil disobedience holds a very important role in social change, location can have a direct impact on the…

favor Kotkin’s argument of how Jacobs’s is out of her time in the advice she is giving, but these methods of social interaction are not only important in city life but are important in any life. The only reason that suburban life is preferable to urban life is because the types of connections that used to be made in cities can now easily be made in a more rural area. If a community is not able to make the connections that Jacobs has suggested, it will fail in providing safety for it’s…

As my selection for an urban park, I chose Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works – a uniquely “urban” ecosystem located in the city’s core. Formerly Toronto’s chief brick manufacturing facility, Brick Works has since been converted into a wholly committed city park, devoted to the preservation of greenspace, integration of natural ecosystems into the urban environment and educational facilitation. Among the ecosystem services, Brickworks largely focuses on supporting and cultural values in its…

Plus with urban system getting bigger and more integrated, demands for natural resources have dramatically increased and will surely continue to increase. Human released the importance of landscape design which is promoting several new paradigm shifts on the modern landscape design to interact with natural resources and teach human how to use the resources…

significant value in the study of design history. Unfortunately, at a time when incredible value is placed on novelty and individual creativity, the narratives of the past often fall on deaf ears, written off as mere nostalgia (Hunt 2014, 1). Focusing on landscape architecture, this essay will defend the presence of history in contemporary thought and promote an active and critical engagement with the antecedents of design. It will be argued that the study of design history provides valuable…

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…

affect that urban design has on society. Jane Jacob’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” is a non-architect’s perspective on what makes neighborhoods and cities great and her analysis of streets and public spaces instigated me to observe the effects of design and urban planning. The design of the “void”, exterior space is just as significant as the building “figure” space and should function as such in the transition from public to private…

Aims and objectives of studio Method of studio Role in studio This report will discover how the studio Rituals of Resistance led by Tom Rivard investigates processes of city-making and urban design in the contrary to rising tides of neoliberal regulation and environmental transformation, searching for genuine urban resilience. I. Aims and objectives This studio will confront the underpinned stories of city-making: the myth of economic progress, the myth of cultural centrality and the myth of…