Urban planner

nowadays, urbanization was and still remains a trend which has influenced people worldwide. “Urbanization occurs when people move from rural to urban areas, so that the proportion of people living in cities increases while the proportion of people living in rural areas diminishes” (Boundless, par.1). Lately, the world is experiencing the largest wave of urban growth in history, and more than half of the world’s population nowadays is living in towns and cities. It is believed that by 2030, the…

Abdullahi A Methods in Urban Planning Research and Analysis (MPUP 520-01) Fall 2015 Research Assignment #3: Literature Review Due: December 17, 2015 Introduction: This literature review research paper will investigate various issues regarding walkability in neighborhoods and communities, for my Georgetown neighborhood project. In doing so, I have reviewed a number of researches and articles on the topic of walkability, to provide an answer to weather walkable communities promotes a positive…

One of my greatest influences for pursuing an accounting major was the wide variety of career opportunities it could provide in the future. During my first two years of undergraduate studies I had absolutely no idea where I would fit in the business world or if I actually wanted to work in business in general. My accounting degree gave me the ability to pursue a degree that would be useful no matter where my potential career path would lead. Even if I did not want to obtain my CPA license, I…

Woodville was the gleaming model of community planning, at least to the FSA and critics alike. However, soon after residents settled into Woodville, a huge influx of people from out-of-state began migrating toward “high-paying jobs in industrial urban centers” (114). It was not long until the migrant workers living in camps began heading to the cities as well. Therefore, Woodville was not as bustling as…

citizens is an important factor in urban planning, settlement and management. Hence, there is a need of a participatory citizen centric planning of urban settlement based on spatial data. These perception and expectation may be represented in terms of emotions. Determining Urban Emotions is an approach which can be used to map different types of emotions associated with urbanization. In the recent years, some new methods have been presented for the area of urban and spatial planning, resulting…

This semester in our community and regional planning class we learned about the general realities of planning. Our last and final assignment is to read and write a review and assessment of The Best-Laid Plans by Randal O' Tool and The Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler. Both were books that had some good points and at times were a little bit dry and hard to get through, but I drudged through it to deliver this fantastic review and assessment. The Geography of Nowhere is a thirteen-chapter…

neighborhoods in cities has not been accomplished. This concept of salvaging continues the failing method in a never ending cycle. However, there are proper steps that can be taken to reverse the process for decay. The lack of involvement from city planners on the decaying issue has created what is known as “The Slums.” Jacobs’ solutions include development at…

the peripheral regions, respectively. No economically progressing country has ever been able to avert its occurrence, which is inevitable and challenging. The daunting task of intelligently designing and confirming sanity and sustainability for an urban canvas is a multidimensional and multi / cross disciplinary endeavour. This demands retrospective understanding of the place and its people; anticipatory sense to forecast and strategize; and awareness about the practices worldwide and…

New urbanism is a technique for designing our built environment and reforming it in such a way that it leads to a better standards of living for us and improve the quality of our life in the places we live. It primarily focuses on reducing the urban sprawl which arises because of the low rise development in some areas. New urbanism promotes the idea of high rise development in areas so that there can be a planned development and we could make the best use of land as far as possible. The…

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…