Urban studies and planning

socioeconomic levels. The last example from the study in England showed that Muslim women used green space as a location to develop their social relationships with each other apart from Muslim men. In total, 46% of the participants saw the benefits of improved social relationships when at high quality green space. With the belief that mental health could be improved, 46% agreed and 60% agreed that it would improve their physical health. This study gives great significance to the assumption…

One of the most important pioneers for this concept was Arturo Soria y Mata; he was an urban planner from Spain. His concept first appearance was in an article in Madrid famous journal of the time, where Soria tackles the municipal policies of planning, advising a radical measure for the future planning of Madrid. The Linear City concept had as principal idea one strip of 500 meters wide, the long of the strip would be the necessary, by necessary we mean it could be as long as the city would…

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…

Brazil Our nation has been working hard into preserving and improving the standards of competitiveness with nations as powerful as United States, China, Greece and Japan for example. Social issues as eliminating urban slums or shantytowns (favelas in Portuguese) and ensuring access to adequate housing became one of the main problematic concern at Rio de Janeiro. Brazil with an area of 8,515,770 sq/km, represents the fifth biggest country of the world. Known for the most enigmatic forest of the…

Thesis Title: Urban Planning, An Eco-City Approach: The Case of Urmia, Iran The purpose of my thesis is to define a restoration plan for green structure of Urmia city by considering cultural aspects of human lifestyle. The environmental crises are challenging the future of several cities around the world; Urmia city in Northwest of Iran, located near Urmia Lake is not an exception. This lake is an important internationally recognized natural area designated as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.…

City by implementing the different incentive schemes aimed at curbing the development of high density communities, provision of adequate public facilities, reducing public budgets by shifting maintenance costs to developers and creation of a vibrant urban center well connected by plazas, pedestrian walks and such. However, such schemes need to be readjusted to avoid unwanted results such as oversupply and high vacancy rates. Due to its success in achieving these objectives 17.2% of responding…

efforts to prevent, manage and accommodate the dire consequences of mother nature and bad weather conditions, especially with the obvious increasing urban activities and population explosion in most cities of the world. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case in virtually all the cities in Nigeria. In this case, Delta State as a case study; where town planning laws and city master plans are blatantly neglected, abused, disregarded and flouted by the Government and its various Agencies,…

led to a rise in automobile during the twentieth century at different rates around the world. (Impact of automobile website) The wartime bombing in World War I established a need for physical reconstruction and allowed alterations to the physical urban…

Today, over half of the world’s 7 billion population are living in urban environments with this number forecasted to increase to 2/3 by 2030 (UN 2004). The development of urban areas involves destruction of forests and other native bird habitats, which can lead to a loss of diversity and abundance of birds and native plants that can no longer survive in the new environment. This is troubling as birds perform certain ecosystem services, services humans can benefit from, such as pollination,…

value of social responsibility. Growing up he was exposed to the living conditions of New York’s Urban Poor (McCullough 2012, pp7-8). Stein briefly attended Columbia University to study interior design. In 1903, Stein then moved to Paris where he shifted his career interest to community architecture…