Urban planner

have our own views of them. But as civilians, we only see the what is attractive to us such as, building, parks, and the attractions of the city, but we never think deeply enough to see the reality. Richard Florida, the author of the book The New Urban Crisis, is a researcher and expert in cities. He identifies inequality, segregation, and high costs of living as challenges confronting today’s cities. Florida applies the sociological imagination to break down these factors. His purpose is to…

My response to Recovering Utopia by Nathanial Coleman from the Journal of Architectural Education. This article is an intellectual article that works towards defining utopia in regard to architecture and city planning. It includes explanations that make up the dangers and realistic ideals that come along with trying to create utopia in architecture or a utopian city. Coleman describes what makes up utopia in architecture which include as he describes four elements: “social and political content;…

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…

On December 23, 2016, This American Life originally aired Act One: Lopsided Tannenbaum, which was a piece of fiction read by the author, Maile Meloy. The story begins with a husband and wife, along with their four year-old daughter, Anne Marie, returning home from collecting a lopsided Christmas tree when they happen upon a couple stranded in the snow, one of which is holding a broken ski. Everett, the husband, stopped to assist the couple and see what they needed, Bonnie and Clyde. As Everett…

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…