Urban fiction

It seems to be the case that after reading both the passages from Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, that planning a city layout is a concept that requires strategic thinking in regard to a specific arrangement that represent something beyond itself. It is essentially a game plan with various aspects that come into play. In other words, more goes into the planning of a city then just the basis of drawing line representing streets and squares representing buildings.…

shares her insights into urban planning which is explained in her video Urban Wisdom. She presented that the notions motivating city development in the beginning six decades within the twentieth century were largely confusing, theoretical images of the city, unconnected from any full understanding of what truly makes cities work, when they do so. Jane Jacobs was a keen observer of modern city life, highly alert to the concrete circumstances that tend to create a modern urban life that might…

How Communities’ Identities Change Over Time What is the generalized other? Well it is the set of beliefs, roles, and norms followed by different cultures and this generalized other changes continuously in many cities around America and the world. For example, London is very modern, so it has a generalized other that is very progressive compared to what it was a few decades ago . Community identity is a very complex force that feeds on cultural changes and people’s ideas and rules and because…

from a working environment towards a more global and tourist attraction space. People began to commute from suburb to city (Hollow, 2011). The coming of the streetcar in 1888 changed the spatial configuration of many urban areas from that of a compact city to that of a star shaped urban area. This influx in traffic flow created havoc on the routes to and from the suburbs. Rush hour…

There are many topics in criminal justice that I could write great research papers on but the topic that interests me the most is youth gang members. I want to know do children who live in the inner city have a higher chance of joining a gang then children who live in suburban towns. I have a high interest in our youth because they are the future. As our generation continues to grow old we need younger, brighter, and more intelligent members of our community to stand up for what's right. The…

Throughout the changes given in the period of 1961-2011, Suburbanization is considered the main reason for the expansion of Toronto. Firstly, changes in transportation played a vital role for the expansion and creation of the majority of cities. Behan states that new technology for transportation was a key factor to suburb sprawl. In addition, Fyfe argues that the increment of vehicles and the development of highways allow variations in the distributions of communities. For instance, in the…

specialising in urban geography and development, to assist the development of Casavela, a fictional urban slum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I have been appointed four million US dollars to spend over the period of two years to improve the social and environmental issues the community faces. I must make educated decisions, prioritising problems based on need and necessity within the community, in order to improve the quality of life of Casavela’s residents. Context/Background on Urban Slums An urban…

the best environment to find and investigate what is within us and outside of us. Portland was able to protect its parks by making a development limit law. In 1973, a bill was made that ensured Portland's common assets from urban sprawl. The law states that there is to be urban reserve land. This implies that rural areas are protected from advancement for at least fifty years. Farmland and forest area is additionally piece of the development limit. Meaning they are protected from being developed…

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…

With reference to Harvey, David. 2000. "The Spaces of Utopia," Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds, Part II (Twynstra: Amersfoort, Netherlands), 53-81. The history and the diversity of the megacities has come since the eighteenth century, and it became more complicated with current technology and innovations, in every decade different thoughts and concepts have been raised with the definition of the sustainable city. Turning over cities to a sustainable cities, is a long-term investment,…