Urban renewal

status, crime in the urban environment they live in, the schools these children go to all play a major part in why they do not believe they have a chance in furthering their education compared to adolescents who are enrolled in rural or suburban schools. By using mindfulness as a way to understand why this is and how it effects these school aged children and can be used to overcome this major problem in ethnically diverse communities in urban cities. Mindfulness Effects on Urban…

I believe that the novel “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy is a coming of age story about a young man who initially set out to make a life for himself in a land that wasn’t so industrialized and in turn grew up and lost his innocence. John Grady was a young, naïve 16-year-old who was unhappy with the way “his” country was changing, so he set off with his friend Rawlins on a quest to find a place he wanted to call home. John Grady had child-like ideations that, while he couldn’t find the…

City of Minneapolis: Committee of the Whole Planning Commission The City of Minneapolis City Planning Commission’s ‘Committee of the Whole’ is a meeting that occurs at Minneapolis City Hall twice per month. The objective of these meetings is to provide a public forum where City staff and project applicants can discuss proposals in an official forum outside of the public hearing process. My particular meeting occurred at 4:30 PM on September 22nd, 2016. The vice president of the Planning…

Urban fiction or most known as street lit is by far the best genre around. What street lit is to me is grimy literature that focuses on the street life, sex and drugs. A good urban fiction novel is definitely a page turner and will keep you on your toes page after page. You can’t help but wonder what is coming next preventing you from putting it down. Author Wahida Clark for example is known as the “Queen of Thug Love Fiction.” from her sex, drug, and murder filled novels. Once you are done…

most needed occurred when people changed their thinking. Known as the paradigm shift of understanding, it was when rational thinking occurred and industry, the nation state and rights of an individual were considered and adopted (Reeves, Introduction Urban Planning: UPLAN 100G/101, 2015). Advancements in transport, building material, science and more meant planners could extent the limits of their design and scale of their plans. Therefore planning is heavily influenced by technology and…

Within the perspective of an analytical and intellectual framework, architecture represents dwelling, subjectivity, civic relations, and professional practice as well as more challenging notions of contentious urban demolition and rebuilding projects, increased emphasis on public space in urban planning, and specialized architectural projects such as museums, laboratories, hospitals, and low-income housing. These concepts and the consequences of their implementation integrates the ethical…

What are the goals of the “orthodox” urban planners (Garden Cities” theorists, Le Corbusier etc.) whom Jacob criticizes? Jane Jacobs throughout Chapter 1 of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” explains her philosophy regarding urban planning that is centered around using the successes and failures of existing cities as a paradigm for urban planning and design. Jacobs claims that cities “are an immense laboratory of trial and error” in which city planning should be based off of…

development (LAND, n.d.b). Today LAND studio is an urban development oriented nonprofit organization located in one of Cleveland’s historic neighborhoods, Ohio City. Here is where twenty talented staff members contribute daily to improving Cleveland’s public spaces in hopes of helping people connect with one another and boosting the city’s economy. However, LAND studio’s unique art oriented approach to urban development distinguishes it from ordinary urban development investors and firms. Art…

opportunities for profitable reinvestment created. They explain gentrification as an economic process that is caused by fluctuating relationships among capital investment and the production of urban space. This theory says that gentrification is based on the relationship between money and production. The restructuring urban spaces aspect of gentrification is…

implications of the individual’s urban experience, representing the Canadian city center as a place of isolating corruption that maps an unchanging Toronto. Drawing on the modernist impulse to criticize the industrialization of society, Souster moves away from the Canadian tradition of writing naturalistic visions into the sphere of the cityscape. In his poems, “Robinson Street”, and “The Coldest Winter”, Souster uses images of isolated anguish set against the backdrop of an urban setting in…