Urban sociology

landscapes, with wild plants and animals being replaced with concrete buildings and paved roads. This almost universal approach to urban development is causing humans to lose parts of their local identities, landscapes, biodiversity and environments. The damage to nature is further exacerbate with city-builders often leaving non-human lives…

possible operation but there will be over 2,000 square foot of residential space and ‘3.4 million square foot of office space.’1 There are a number of urban design principles to be assessed when looking at this certain development. One of the main reasons that there is this sense of place around this development is purely down to the understanding of the urban design principles. One of the main principle would be that how this development should be well connected to all different types of…

states that some companies would like to make the urban as their headquarters in today’s world. Moreover, Mara specifically describes that the drawbacks and benefit for the tech companies built headquarters in urban areas. According to Mara, there are some negative impact if the headquarter of a company was built in the city. Firstly, there are serious burden on public transport when more and more company built their headquarters in the center of urban areas. Moreover, Mara explain this by…

intends to extend with an absence of thought. When I picture a canine sprawling on a lounge chair: paws on every one of the pills, one foot toward the end of the love seat and one on the inverse end of the sofa, face down in the cushions. The meaning of urban sprawl is the same as the pooch: an unkempt, uncontrolled and un-directed method for creating ranch land. Reid Ewing, in his article, "Is Los Angeles Style Sprawl Desirable", characterizes sprawl as low thickness advancements which are…

The environmental risk that me and my group chose to address is urban sprawl.Urban sprawl is the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas which is bad.The solution that we came up with is to add more public places for the community. From the article, “the problem of urban sprawl,” “sprawl has fundamentally reshaped our urban landscape and continues to have an outsized effect on life in America.”This quote means that the urban areas are pretty much taking up the country.Another example is, “Older…

I interviewed Salado Mohamed who is a student at St. Cloud State University. She is a third year student, and is studying social work. Salado has many siblings who are all still living in her home country of Kenya. She believes that her siblings wouldn’t move to another country, because her parents are so strict. I asked Salado if she thought her living situation would be different if she didn’t have any siblings; she said that that had never crossed her mind, but she doesn’t think it would have…

It seems to be the case that after reading both the passages from Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, that planning a city layout is a concept that requires strategic thinking in regard to a specific arrangement that represent something beyond itself. It is essentially a game plan with various aspects that come into play. In other words, more goes into the planning of a city then just the basis of drawing line representing streets and squares representing buildings.…

from a working environment towards a more global and tourist attraction space. People began to commute from suburb to city (Hollow, 2011). The coming of the streetcar in 1888 changed the spatial configuration of many urban areas from that of a compact city to that of a star shaped urban area. This influx in traffic flow created havoc on the routes to and from the suburbs. Rush hour…

There are many topics in criminal justice that I could write great research papers on but the topic that interests me the most is youth gang members. I want to know do children who live in the inner city have a higher chance of joining a gang then children who live in suburban towns. I have a high interest in our youth because they are the future. As our generation continues to grow old we need younger, brighter, and more intelligent members of our community to stand up for what's right. The…

Throughout the changes given in the period of 1961-2011, Suburbanization is considered the main reason for the expansion of Toronto. Firstly, changes in transportation played a vital role for the expansion and creation of the majority of cities. Behan states that new technology for transportation was a key factor to suburb sprawl. In addition, Fyfe argues that the increment of vehicles and the development of highways allow variations in the distributions of communities. For instance, in the…