Urban fiction

2.3 Modernization With the development of modernization, more and more rural people began to migrate to the city. And using dialect frequently is not conducive to promote the process of urbanization. In order to seek better work and learning opportunities, many users of Nvshu give up the inheritance of Nvshu, and tend to use more and more official language and official words. That is really a big problem in the inter-generational inheritance of Nvshu. 2.4 The Policy Reason Like many other…

process of raising population growth in cities and rural, it also includes the rise of industrialization. The government, industry and business deal in urban areas are involved.The United States and Europe had started their urbanization since the 19th century. On the other hand, by the end of 2014, 54.7% of China’s total population live in the urban areas, which is a rate that rose from 26% in 1990. They are currently experiencing a rapid increase. Yet, urbanization has many benefits. For…

Oldenburg, American urban sociologist, places can be divided on three categories. The first one is the home, the second one is the workplace, and the third is a place which exists on neutral ground and aims towards social equality (Oldenburg, p. 163). In the middle of the city of Jönköping between Södra Strandgatan and Smedjegatan, lies the inner garden of Borgmästargränd 5, a third place. The aim of this essay is to describe and analyze the inner garden based on the American urban sociologist…

Urbanism in the United States was impossible to avoid for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons was the new opportunities the city had to offer many individuals because of the growing development of the city. Urbanism for instance, brought many new opportunities from employment, lifestyle, and changes to the city. A new experience many people had never seen before or had access to. Urbanism aside from all the different opportunities it brought to the city with the new developments created a…

Kenneth Jackson contends in Crabgrass Frontier, that the development of the skyscraper with the telephone and elevator emphasized the vigor of the American city in the 19th century, “but the extraordinary prosperity and vitality of most urban cores between 1890 and 1950 cannot be understood without reference to the streetcar systems.” Unlike cable cars or the railroad, streetcars highlighted the business district and connected the people to the heart of the city. The streetcar enabled…

What did you find compelling, interesting, valuable in Mumford’s approach? What would you disagree with? Most importantly, were you convinced by his vision of the good city and his prescriptions for urban design? In the chapter about the myth of Megapolis, Mumford provides his insights about some negative trends that many cities were expereicning during his time period such as city sprawls and giantism, and power centralization. These ideas are still effective after several decades that they…

urbanism (Smith 2002) produces spatial inequality, displacement, homelessness and racial containment in an urban area. Certain urban spaces become more attractive to investment and to the job seekers, others lose their economic base, and population. The urban units often show increased or decreased economic growth individually and nor as a unit of the larger city. This disconnection of urban units further encourages social and ethnic segregation. On a positive note, recent decades saw Atlanta…

“Urbanisation is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities.” – Li Keqiang, Premier of People’s Republic of China (Independent, 2012) In nineteenth century, England has faced an enormous and rapid growth of urban population. In-migrants, people from rural areas of England and Wales, were moving to larger, industrial cities, such as London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester. In one century, the population of London, for example, increased from…

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…

since before the creation of America as an independent country. But does this particular sentiment serve the American public? Jefferson himself claimed that living in rural areas granted Americans, “health, virtue, and freedom.” This form of anti-urban bias transformed into the preference of owning one 's own land and eventually the single family home ideal. Single family homes are the number one priority in the United States, a position that is not echoed by any other country. Housing ideals…