Urban planner

Though American progressives of the early 20th century were dedicated to issues regarding networked technologies, those efforts were actually based on an interest in cities and urban development. As increasing amounts of the population moved from the countryside into urban areas, cities represented economic, social, and cultural opportunities. They also exposed stark realities that would need to be addressed in order for people to live and work there without hazardous threats. As the…

Nowadays it is difficult to live in big cities without using the transport. It is well-known fact that in metropolises the transportation system is developed well. In almost every big city there are a buses, metro, taxes and great number of personal cars. The fast enlargement of citizens leads to increasing number of cars. Thus, statistic, provided The World Bank, says that the number of motor vehicles per 1000 people in 2011 in the USA was 786, whereas the year earlier it was 782. In…

Sierra Saumenig Rough Draft November 13, 2016 Saumenig.1 Connections Essay: Suburban Ideal Introduction From the 1800’s up until present day, the construction of suburbs throughout America has caused suburban sprawl. Many important elements can be coined as the reasons for a shift away from living in the city to living outside the city. Some of these aspects include technological changes in transportation, poor living conditions in cities, and a need for a more community-focused way of life.…

and if it’s not safe they will stray away. Jane Jacobs understood the importance of this and knew how cities could maintain this safety, but warned of what would become of them if they did not stray away from the current city styles. More modern planners, such as Joel Kotkin argue that Jacobs’s lesson is no longer applicable to modern cities because they have different functions than those of the past. This argument is valid in the sense that city…

message they wanted to send across symbolically and physically. For example, O'Connell Street has probably the most public monuments situated on it, compared to the rest of Dublin or even Ireland, this was done purposely due to the fact that city planners were aware of the volume of public that would pass through that particular street in a day as it still does up to this date. It is also very important to state that the…

Introduction Both Jane Jacob and Richard Florida are huge influence in contemporary urban development while both of them emphasized the importance of creativity. This article provides us very general ideas of both Jane Jacob and Richard Florida towards the definition and composition of creative class, which opens up the topic for broader discussions. This short essay used qualitative analysis based on based on two interviews. On the one hand, the main argument of Richard Florida that is drawn…

effects of global economy, transition from representative democracy to pluralistic and participatory democracy have influenced urban systems and traditional planning approaches have not been able to come up with the solutions to problems that arise in the new urban systems. (Hillier, 2008) . Berke & Conroy (2000) mentioned that the concept of sustainability plays…

By applying the GIS spatial analyst, the results show that the Mill area has a high level of accessibility and connectivity (See Figure 16&17). More buses are served along Main Street and more local roads are connected to the Mill area. It is convenient for people to get access to the Mill. Findings The design elements discussion refers to a limited reference and mainly focuses on the related works that are widely known. The outcome of the analysis is the basic result to be appropriate for a…

suffer from a lack of exposure to nature, Serenbe is a successful experiment of what a healthy and social community should be. With urban and rural…

Although socioeconomic status and pre-K involvement both clearly correlate to kindergarten readiness in urban areas and particularly within Memphis, there are other, larger urban processes at work within the setting of urban Memphis. One of these processes is urban psychology. Urban psychology relates the interactions of the people to their surroundings and how these interactions shape the children. These surroundings for a pre-kindergarten child can include the home environment, which has…