Urban renewal

opportunities (Karanja 2010). According to UNHCR (2016), “over 60 percent of the world’s” refugee population are living in urban milieu. For such reasons, the majority of Pakistani refugee Christian families (PRCF) are residing in Bangkok and other major cities of Thailand in lieu of living in the refugee camps (Foster, 2015). But on the other hand, researchers, also, suggested that urban refugees are one of the most marginalized group due to lack of access to healthcare system, educational…

Whether the audience realizes it or not, local art is a force that often brings people of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles together. Cities as diverse as New York City benefit from the constant stimuli of art. Art takes multiple forms in urban spaces, including graffiti, murals, art museums, and commemorative statues. Within the article Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation, author Harriet F. Senie narrows her research in on the interaction of…

A perfectly imperfect world The picture below is of an urban residential suburb. I’d like to start off by asking you how you feel or what you think when you drive through the tree-lined streets of areas like Westville, Umhlanga or Musgrave, with its large homes and precipitous driveways? Cliff notes version of my thoughts: • Sense of hope and potential • Encourages one to dream for the future • Wouldn’t be tempted to litter because the community is so clean • Gives the impression that the people…

Designing a More Inclusive City The article by Allison Arief on the need to build an inclusive city that accommodates the needs of the people gives us a good example to demonstrate the presence of the argumentative aspects in logic. To understand her arguments well, we must delve into the deeper meaning of the article. The first logical fallacy that is articulated in the article is that people tend to sit where there are places to sit. The author goes on to support this claim by citing…

Urban versus Small Towns Due to the rapid growth of urbanization, a massive gap has been created between urban environments and small towns. These communities have distinct features which measure their own kind of uniqueness, their own set of attributes, how they shape human relations and cultures, as well as the amount of freedom people living in the communities have. Urban environments and small towns differentiate from one another in three main aspects which are in their numbers, density,…

Delirious New York, he engages the readers through his review and criticism of modern urbanism and architecture. He explores the city of Manhattan as an urban experiment and a field for man made experiences and a platform to the modern life. He demonstrates the concept of “Manhattanism” as a manifestation of urbanism of hyper density created by the man made urban conditions. The first chapter of the book gives the…

Central Park was not always a place for people of all ages and social statues to enjoy a time of leisure. It was the foundation Vaux and Olmsted set with their park in their creation of a natural looking landscape, integration of architecture into the landscape and picturesque theory, and the enlightenment ideas they incorporated that helped Central Park become one of the first true public parks. After the parks construction the people started to shape and build the park into what it is today.…

In Anna Karenina, scenes often switch from taking place in the city to setting in the country. The city and country contrast in many ways, and impact the way characters behave and think, as well as reflecting their morals and motivations and impacting how the characters interact with one another. In the country, characters are generally calmer and happier, while in the city, chaos often arises and illness occurs. One theme that comes up several times is that of rebirth, particularly for Levin…

Have you ever chosen to live in rural or urban areas? If yes, this article will discuss the differences and similarities between them. so that you can make the decision more clearly. Different human environments with varied manifestations, economic and social interests also affect the progress of mankind in many elements. As this happens a temporal event occurs spatially. As a result, urban and rural lives are different from each other in a lot of things such as types of activities, buildings,…

Introduction: The world is urbanizing rapidly; the present population living in urban areas is 54%. The more urban an area, the more concretized it is. Urban areas are quite warmer than the rural counterpart, the natural ecosystems are being replaced by buildings and other structures. There is significant temperature differences between city centers and their surrounding countryside and surface temperatures can be much greater in high density suburbs compared to low-density suburbs; the reason…