Urban renewal

used to employ most of the green space in the city. However, when the new apartments were being constructed they were not designed to have any green spaces. Urban sprawl breaks up the relationship between humans and the environment. Sprawl causes an increase in city commuting time. In 1980 Tehran’s government was forced to expand the range of urban services provided to the sprawled settlements (Roshan, Rousta, Remesh 2009, 310-321) Tehran’s Strategic Plan is a twenty-year sustainability…

public housing system. While changes are being made to improve public housing and root out problems such as racism, and corruption within the housing authority, overwhelmingly the history of what was supposed to be a revolutionary way of living for urban poor, has been a failure. Due to the decline of the city at the time public housing arose, racism, and the failure of the federal…

The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs published in 1961, is the most influential book about city planning. Jane wrote this book criticizing the modern city planning and rebuilding which she calls the orthodox city planning idea. Ebenezer howard’s self sufficient small town Garden city, Le-Corbusier’s Radiant City composed of skyscrapers and the Decentrists’ city decentralizing ideas are the victim of her criticism. In the book, she effectively describes the problems…

): • Introduce topic – what is gentrification? • Background/history of gentrification • Causes of gentrification (brief) • Use quote in some way ‘London is being made over by an urban centred middle class’ • Briefly explain the points you’re going to address in the essay. Impacts: Positive (700 words approx.): • Renewal of a rundown area - The previously deprived area is rejuvenated, creating a nicer place to live for the local residents. • Increased property prices - Rejuvenation makes the…

communities in the United States were razed down and built back up by urban planners, who claimed they were transforming the spaces for the better. The planners often neglected to consider the needs and priorities of the people who had and were expected to live in their projects, and thus they ended up destroying rather than improving community life. Activist and urban studies writer Jane Jacobs explored instances of urban renewal in neighborhoods across America during the 1950-60s, and…

What did you find compelling, interesting, valuable in Mumford’s approach? What would you disagree with? Most importantly, were you convinced by his vision of the good city and his prescriptions for urban design? In the chapter about the myth of Megapolis, Mumford provides his insights about some negative trends that many cities were expereicning during his time period such as city sprawls and giantism, and power centralization. These ideas are still effective after several decades that they…

evidence that the Hong Kongese may have unconsciously recognized this phenomenon and are attempting to preserve what little historical hallmarks are left. Lee states in chapter eight titled “City and Country” that “[e]ach government project of urban renewal in Hong Kong has been challenged with a spontaneous outpouring of popular protest” (272). As Lee speculates this surge in conservation could just be nostalgia driven. Whatever the intentions are behind preserving the historical features of…

Gangxia village is an urban village situated in the central part of Futian CBD, Shenzhen. The urban village comprises two parts, as shown in Figure 4.2, Heyuan and Louyuan, the case study here only covers Heyuan block, which takes up a population of approximately 68,000 (only 900 are indigenous villagers, the other 67,000 are migrant tenants) and an area of approximately 151,600 m2 (Futian Government Online, 2007). Regarding the large size of redevelopment and the complex interests among various…

According to the lecture from week ten, the definition of urban area is the field where it is surrounding a city and it has a high population density. Most of the urban areas are well-developed meaning there is a condensed collection of human structures, such as buildings, public infrastructure, real estate, labour markets, sites of production and consumption. In the book The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, it shows the book occurs in the future and it has negative affects about the…

Despite the progress made in policy over time to implement desegregation, there are many institutions that remain separate among Blacks and Whites. The most daunting separation that occurs between the races is in the living space. Residential racial segregation is an anomaly, as all of the legal efforts to live together in harmony are thwarted by this major gap in integrated neighborhoods. Many factors are suspected to contribute to this continued trend. It is theorized that it is the choice of…