Urban fiction

It’s potential has helped it grow as a suburb. The renewal of Pyrmont can be seen in; parks, public areas, harbour views, transport, affordable housing and wharf 7. Primary and secondary research can be used to describe and analyse the impact of urban growth and decline in Pyrmont. Primary data such as pictures taken on sight, field sketches, transects and surveys taken by Ravenswood students. Secondary research can consist of websites, photos taken off of google and census…

Urban renewal transformed urban landscapes across America during the mid-twentieth century. New York City did not depart from this trend, and the impacts are prevalent today. The practice of slum clearance displaced entire communities, and perpetuated the very idea it sought to resolve. From this, the anti-urban movement sprang forward. This grassroots effort made progress through white middle-class residents as it concentrated on a community’s culture rather than redevelopment. This approach…

Tactics Through the use of photo ethnography observational research was found to provide insight. Positive and negative attributes were found through this process. This research focused on the Suburban areas of Oakville and Windsor, in comparison to the urban regions of Montreal and Toronto. In both Instances, places like libraries, coffee shops and community…

Staring at the sidewalk Pulled from the highly informational novel The Death and the Life of American Cities written by Jane Jacobs, lies an augment about the roles citizens as well as strangers play in the safety of their city streets. This argument is placed in chapter two of the book with the heading of “The uses of sidewalk: safety.” Jane writes clearly and explicitly of her research as well as her opinion on the topic. To analyze the text further I did my own observations of LOVE Park,…

Resilience Thinking in Urbanism Researches as Urban Resilience Resilience in the city, entitled “urban resilience”, is defined as the capacity of cities to continue their activity under extreme pressure regardless of the type of shock or stress they face, so that the people who live and work within the cities, especially the poor and the vulnerable, can survive and grow steadily (The Rockefeller Foundation, 2014). In recent researches, the latest definition of urban resilience refers to the…

effects. Beyond these three two other important elements have to be considered the reliability and efficiency of the system along with the adaptability and flexibility of the whole system. From the combination of these various factors the idea of urban resilience sprouts and is the complex management and implementation of these ideas. It is based on this concept of resilience that the author delves into a case study of New York City, specifically the downtown Manhattan…

of the downtown area and Fort Wayne as a whole. Over the years, Fort Wayne has seen many stages of urbanization and urban sprawl and currently, Fort Wayne is having an issue with urban sprawl. As the children of Fort Wayne grow up and go to college, they are finding other cities that are more enjoyable to live in and live there. A redesign of Fort Wayne will have a huge impact urban growth because it will fix many problems with the structure of the city and it will focus on the guided principles…

gathered and processed your information. The main aim of the investigation was to learn the responsibility of the state in finding solutions to the urban growth and decline issues in Pyrmont-Ultimo. The information was collected by observing the phenomena, changes, and developments in inner-city areas in order to ascertain some facts related to urban growth and decline in Pyrmont-Ultimo. During the investigation, the group verified the validity of current information but were not documented in…

Alex Marshall states throughout the book “How Cities Work” that in order for any city to be a healthy it is crucial to have the three legged stool. The three legged stool is composed of politics, economics and transportation. In transportation it gives us the most visual and dynamic in the way a place is shaped. That’s why places such as Silicon Valley, Jackson Heights and John Jay community all differ from each other. Adding on to this, the way our transportation systems are built and the…

Is gentrification beneficial to regeneration? Gentrification is a controversial topic within regeneration, defined by a variety of urban planners and architects alike. Smith and Williams (1986, p.3) describe the process of gentrification as dynamic, which cannot be constrained to a simple definition. ‘Gentrification of the City’ (Smith and Williams, 1986) explores the idea of gentrification as made up of several layers and developments that can only be understood if the links between one…