Urban studies and planning terminology

and/or water body & its importance in Urban areas. An urban area is characterized by high human population density and vast human-built features. Thus rises the need of relief spaces in the dense urban matrix. They can be any kind of open spaces or water body, green belts-manmade or natural. Urban Morphology of cities show the gradual decrease and decease of open spaces with the process of urbanization. Open spaces are mandatory for the sustenance of an urban area. They provide recreational and…

famously said that planning is to bring the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. The discipline of planning and architecture is a very important discipline given the context of our present capital of J&K State, Srinagar. The city is rapidly urbanizing, people are leaving their villages and migrating to cities in large numbers. When they migrate to cities, one of the common problems they face is of housing. Urban housing, especially for the urban poor will become a…

In the text titled "Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space" authors Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon explore how urbinisation affected monuments especially when they were used to beautify and signify an entire city's identity or history. In this text there are two main focal points in which the authors expand on and a look into todays monuments status. They firstly focus on how contrasting message-wise the socialist and democratic monuments are, even though they appear to be similar in form and…

Cityness consists of all the visible and invisible factors which make a city characteristic for what it is. Cityness is also defined by the level of connectedness, the actors which create a meaning for an environment using deep societal constructs, and urban factors, such as livability. The high levels of urbanization are a leading threat towards livability by creating poor social and environmental conditions. This section will explain the aspects of cityness that are of interest to the authors.…

The Rural Cemetery Movement With rapidly growing urban populations in the mid-1800’s, it was important to develop healthy, green, spaces for city dwellers. The Rural Cemetery Movement encouraged American cities to use cemetery space as multi-functional space for leisure, recreation, environmental preservation, and for healthy burial practices (Lundgren). "In a country sorely lacking in public green spaces, these cemeteries provided these graceful, elegant places…They were all around…

Aims and objectives of studio Method of studio Role in studio This report will discover how the studio Rituals of Resistance led by Tom Rivard investigates processes of city-making and urban design in the contrary to rising tides of neoliberal regulation and environmental transformation, searching for genuine urban resilience. I. Aims and objectives This studio will confront the underpinned stories of city-making: the myth of economic progress, the myth of cultural centrality and the myth of…

Reflection Memo on Class Simulation for group 2 On site for group 2 we all agreed on the proposed goal of increasing the desirability of living on the site. After streamlining all our ideas and requirements we agreed to develop the site and to reserve some land for the following programs according to their hierarchy after simulation • Storm Water • Fitness Health Park • Affordable Housing • Falcon Sanctuary Storm Water Storm water treatment dominated our discussion and became our first choice…

The biggest challenge facing urban planners, especially in California, is recovering from the elimination of redevelopment in 2012. Redevelopment agencies (RDAs) were originally put in place to revitalize rundown properties and turn them into physical attractions and economic machines. The land that was eventually developed would then later be sold at a fair market value to developers who thought big on what projects to construct that were also consistent with a city’s development goals and…

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…

the red tarmac offers pedestrians an extra safety measure when crossing, while taking away space from the drivers); parking is also a critical matter, generating therefore, economic consequences for the local shops (‘Material Lives’, 2009, scene 1). Another relevant point is the fact that, City Road social appearance, along with its material assets usage, changes considerably throughout the day, making it almost a different street by nightfall (e.g. from a busy commercial street during the day…