Urban planning

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…

She seemed excited to have a visitor who was interested in the town 's history. I asked her about the urban renewal project that modernized the town 36 years ago. She brought out some documents, but I didn 't have the time to plow through them. I just wanted to know why they bulldozed the downtown and replaced it with strip malls instead of trying to preserve…

My assignment is about urbanization and rural to urban migration in Oman. I have given a short introduction of Oman and then defined urbanization. I have also mentioned the causes of urbanization in Oman for example people migrate from rural to urban areas for the facilities they can get there and because of the industrialization in Oman. Rural urban transformation and urban growth is also mentioned in this assignment. I have briefly discussed urban growth and its affect on the country’s economy…

Reflection essay Habraken – SAR method of analysis Strengths This method of urban analysis looks at the tissue or an urban fabric in two major components, namely buildings and spaces. So a complex tissue is analyzed by looking at it in terms of buildings and spaces. These buildings and spaces are further seen as either thematic or non thematic. When spaces or buildings follow certain rules which repeats itself to form a tissue, then those buildings and space are termed as thematic spaces. Those…

city was the right way of doing things. Their idea was to the centerless the city by and endowning small town.In the book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs, She introduces new principles in city planning and reconstruction. She believes that city planning isn't the conflict associate it was functionality. She believes that the three key elements that make a city livable area sidewalks, parks, and the size of city blocks. Jacobs also states that a livable city is a city…

The essence of what a city is, is complicated as it includes various components and can be interpreted in numerous ways. Erik Rutherford argues that the essence of a city is its physical landscape. He elaborates that cities have a bi-directional relationship with the populace. Cities are moulded by their inhabitants, however they tend to resist the mould imposed on them which in turn shapes the populace. For instance, Paris has a carefully crafted aesthetic that requires its inhabitants to…

research on this project and experiences on similar projects, a series of downtown issues were identified as well as opportunities and approaches for strengthening downtown’s network of streets and public spaces. 1 Key Issue: Urban Structure Challenges: A city’s urban structure is comprised of its places and their connections; the neighborhoods, focal points and districts which act as destinations within the city and the streets, corridors and open space networks that organize them.…

4. CONCLUSION Public spaces are an essential part of cities urban life. They continuously reflect the combination of cities' cultural, values, history in urban contexts. Repetitive behavior setting in Jeddah city is almost typical along the Corniche, it forms a unique social configuration that required to be applied in urban spaces' design as a characterized image and specific identity. 4.1 Results The measurement process of Jeddah Corniche spatial system resulted in the following: - Sensing…

different land-use models and main characteristics of urbanization help to plan and provide facilities for the needs of increasing urban populations more easily. Urbanization is the process where a large number of population become concentrated living in urban area. Urbanization is about changing distribution of world urban population and settlement. Natural increase of urban urbanization can occur either by natural population…

Martin Zebracki’s article Beyond Public Artopia: Public art as perceived by its publics, discusses public art and how the people who pass by it interact with it. This type of art can serve as a way to reinvigorate urban development, and Zebracki examines the perception of the public with reference to several specific public art installments. Public art integrates the location into the art and allows the piece to become a part of the city. Barcelona is a city where public art has become an…