Urban planner

For centuries, urban planning has played a key role in developing human well-being as well as protecting the environment, public welfare and especially residents. Houses, schools, parks, buildings, surrounding environment including transportation, air, water and infrastructure affect people’s lives. Therefore, it is undeniable that prosperity and advancement in terms of security and healthcare are major requirements to many people living in cities. What comes after this is the question of what…

arrangements for the people that worked in the factories and city centers. Urban areas designed to accommodate large numbers of families began to spring up around these factories and city centers. Fast forward to today and we have 78% of the population in North America living in urban areas (Boston University College of Arts & Science, 2012). This figure represents a rapid urban expansion that does not seem to be slowing. Urban expansion isn’t the problem.…

Including redesigning a good amount of urban commercial colossus where two millions of people called home, the scale of this project is huge. Burnham held more than a hundred of meetings with his team and confronted countless critic from the public. The Burnham Document captured Burnham's almost…

the arrival of a new reality, the urban, the end of the industrial city and its fragmentation in the outskirts and suburbs. This article shows the extensions and modernity of Lefebvre's theses: his notions have been widely taken up, both nationally and internationally, by urban political practitioners and urban sociologists. This book, by its approach, has also promoted a progression in the appropriation of the city and it leaves tracks helping to understand the urban today. The place of this…

The biggest challenge facing urban planners, especially in California, is recovering from the elimination of redevelopment in 2012. Redevelopment agencies (RDAs) were originally put in place to revitalize rundown properties and turn them into physical attractions and economic machines. The land that was eventually developed would then later be sold at a fair market value to developers who thought big on what projects to construct that were also consistent with a city’s development goals and…

Merriam Webster Dictionary defines sprawl as “to spread or develop irregularly or without restraint” . This describes the problematic and reckless nature of urban sprawl. Uncontrolled urban growth increases pollution on the environment for a number of reasons. Due to a greater percentage of the workforce commuting from the outskirts of an urban center to their work, there is an increase in the volume of vehicles on the road, resulting in greater air pollution. Also, the amount of asphalt being…

housing. Urban housing, especially for the urban poor will become a major challenge in the future. If we do not plan for the future challenges right now, we will be faced with the ticking time bomb. We will have an overflowing population without access to the basic public services that they need. In…

The implementation of the bus network with exclusive lanes recommended in the plan was enhanced by transportation planners by introducing features from the international experience, especially Curitiba in Brazil. The organization of public transport services by introducing the BRT system has had a positive impact on road safety indicators due to improvements in the operational…

William H. Whyte is best known for The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces a textbook study of behaviour in public space. Set mainly in 1970s Midtown Manhattan, the book and associated documentary concentrated on how people interacted with the physical design of modernist public space. His focus was on “exchange, the most vital measure of the city’s intensity”. Lesser known is Whyte’s commitment to theoretical framing for understanding this intensity and how his research into the behaviour of…

about several urban problems – for instance, severe traffic congestion due to the growing distance between jobs and housing, inefficient energy consumption due to the increased commuting distance, air pollution due to the increased vehicle use, and a decline in the overall regional economies due to the decline of the central business district. In order to mitigate such problems, there have been a variety of efforts…