Urban sprawl

Slum dogs The first concept from the book that I am going to link to this video is the term ‘socialization’. In the book, this means, the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group-the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions though appropriate for them (Henslin 67). I chose this concept for multiple reasons. One reason I chose this concept is because in the city Dharavi they are over populated with 1,000,000 people in a square mile. This means that they…

interviewed Craig Rost, who’s been working in a planning field for 28 years and currently holds the position of executive director of Champaign Economic Development Corporation. He has a bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture and master degree in Urban Planning concentrating on economic development from the UIUC. The reason I chose him as practitioner to interview is that he has inspired me to learn more about economic development and process of creating and building development projects…

is laid out from this 1939 film from the General Motors World’s Fair in New York called Futurama. It is a time of “modern and efficient city planning and breath taking architecture” and “new opportunities for employment and better ways of living.” Urban life is dramatically changing during this time period of before World War II, with new technology and this film shows the changes created by Norman Bel Geddes through a model display of the visions they have for the future through the terrain of…

Issues of social disorder are more likely to involve youth. They are mainly committed by young people. We will be discussing three social disorders, graffiti, youth gangs and alcohol related street based violence. It is agreed among criminologists that the best response to youth deviance is to divert them away from the criminal justice system. Most of the debate surrounding social disorder involves public space. A limitation is that most solutions put forward by, including environmental…

Jennifer Light’s From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America traces the transfer of military techniques, technologies, and experts to city management and organization during the early Cold War. Defense intellectuals approached urban problems using techniques developed during the Second World War; systems analysis, aerial surveillance, and computer simulation Coincidentally enough, From Warfare to Welfare itself originated in the defense establishment.…

Urban development in Apia Introduction Apia is the capital city of Samoa and the largest city in the Pacific. In Apia, there is a trend that 40% of population are looking forward to live in urban area. And the rate of urban growth will be continued to increase (Pacific island populations in Jones article, 2001). Urban population, density of house and waste from industries are all rise continually. Due to the increasing of pressure of urbanization and the lack of effective management solutions,…

Santoro was to expound his policy stances and why he took that stance to his constituents who had written or emailed him. I believe these communication skills will directly translate to the classroom while earning my Masters of Public Administration and Urban Planning because all of my research must be pellucid, based on sound reasoning, and promote advancement in…

Preface: Historical preservation has been mostly understood by the means of preserving the physical artifact. However, in an urban context, what makes artifacts’ character “distinctive” and “definitive” is not only their physicality but also their memory. To this end, Also Rossi’s argues for “the soul of the city” as the city’s history, its memory. Although we all travel backward in time through memory, history and memory should be distinguished totally from each other, the former belongs to a…

A culture is the identity of a place. It includes some aspects such as entertainment, education, and people’s lifestyles. Because people who live in different regions show different ways of living, the culture in one place is different from the cultures of other places. Both residents from big cities and small towns have their own unique culture. Although it’s complicated for people to perfectly understand the comparisons between the culture of different places, there are three differences…

Often times we have seen what type of effect a neighborhood can have on a person whether they are young or older. However the effect are most noticeable in children who grew up in an urban neighborhood involved with crime, drugs, and violence. In these neighborhoods parents try their best to keep their best to shelter children from what goes on outside but they have to work as well which is usually for many hours a day to make ends meet. The most recurrent similarity in children who misbehave no…