Urban sociology

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…

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…

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…

Introduction Thanks to the US Constitution and its amendments and many other laws, segregation is no longer an issue in the United States. Or is it? While nothing can legally be made segregated it doesn’t mean that it won’t end up segregated. A great example of what I am talking about is residential living. America’s neighborhoods and cities are still formed along racial and ethnic lines. This is very popular in big cities and very small towns. This paper will focus on the residential…

Calthorpe Chanel D. Ellison The Ohio State University New Urbanist Peter Calthorpe has not only been a visionary for urban planning, but has brought his visions to life. With ideals similar to John Nolen and his bringing of Garden Cities to America, urban sprawl smart growth have been the plight of Peter Calthorpe’s urban planning focus. Under the umbrella of new urbanism, Calthorpe incorporates the ideas of transit oriented communities and environmentally…

Balzac and the Little Seamstress follows two boys that have to be re-educated during the Maoist Revolution up in a small village. They meet a Seamstress and find banned books with Western ideas to read to each other. Grass on the Rooftop is a story of a boy that is being re-educated that is believed to have saved a picture of Mao and becomes famous and travels around. Both stories have to do with re-education and how people from this time feel and background information to Maoism and China at…

Suburban sprawl, the built environment associated with this development pattern, and the subsequent negative effects is a topic that has been examined in a multitude of ways by many different researchers, organizations and interested individuals. Responses to suburban sprawl seek to mitigate or correct a number of problems such as the negative environmental, social, fiscal and health effects of suburban sprawl on individuals and the community. The wide range of these effects, and the multitude…