Urban studies and planning

Austrian city Planner and Architect. He had a great influences on the development of the urban construction , regulation on Europe. Sitte work demonstrates his understand of what he considered important in designing and how the language of a building should be greatly influed by the space in which to observe the building as they were intended to be apprepicated. His set rules to a successful modern planning always ensured that you enclose the public space in such a way as to restrict view out…

2.2 Marketisation of home care for older people The older care at home in this study would include the care services of personal routines, including nursing, body-related support, home help and befriending taken place at older people’s home by paid care worker rather than family members, following the embracement of domiciliary elderly care of Bode et al (2013) and Bolton and Wibberley (2014). The home care has been increasingly operated according to market mechanism and portrayed as the ideal…

Environment in Urban Villages. Case Study - Urban Villages, Delhi Dr. Ruchita Gupta Assistant Professor, SPA Delhi Abstract Under the influence of rapid urbanization and economic development, many Indian cities have doubled or tippled in terms of population and land use. As a result, many villages, abaadi area and settlement are situated in periphery of City and Town are engulfed, and named as Urban Villages and Urban Villages Ext. Similarly, Lal Dora area within the city is also comes under…

Gendered Response to Urban Poverty and Inequality A Case Study of SDI 1. Introduction Urbanisation has accelerated in the global scale, especially in the Global South, with the urban population growing rapidly due to both natural growth and rural-urban migration. The living condition and lifestyles of people are changing along with different situations in transport, housing, employment and infrastructures. However, in the process of urbanisation, people of different genders, religions and…

“The influence of the city-based cultures and the steady spread and increase of urban populations around the world have been the central facts of human history” (13). Since the beginning of time, cities have been influencing people and the people have been influencing the city in which they live in. As said in the reading, urban life is defined by the community, the government and the economy. The history of cities is complex and it changed in many ways throughout time, starting with the first…

Gentrification is the continuous cycle of generations in which higher income households displace lower income residents of a city neighborhood. Although this process takes decades to change the demographics of the urban development, it changes neighborhood travel characteristics and transportation planning/infrastructure requirements. Should transportation engineers care about gentrification while designing roads, bridges, highways, freeways? If we (transportation engineers) build it would they…

place for Four Seasons Hotels. A majority of high consumption group center on the metropolitan cities and high population density cities. Major of these cities are well urban planning which offer core business district with good infrastructure including convenient transportation and large shopping malls. According to the a new study from the McKinsey Global Institute, the metropolitan cities and large cities will account for 81% of total consumption in the global market (Florida, 2014) 3.…

Scenario planning is the process of evaluating possible future events through the consideration of alternative plausible, though not equally likely, states of the world (Mahmoud, 2009). The use of this approach considers different scenarios for the unprecedented future and explores alternatives for management. One of the major global assessments that address scenario planning due to the impact of human activity on the environment is the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (“MEA”). This global…

employment growth during the period. These results imply that congestion deters employment growth in much larger cities, but congestion may be an indicator of vibrant economic activities in larger cities. This result partially supports the previous studies that argue severe congestion growth deteriorates economic growth in metropolitan areas (Hymel, 2009; Sweet, 2014). This provides important policy implications that congestion policy should be differentiated across the U.S. metropolitan areas…

Event planning is the psychological organization of ideas or activities to achieve a desired goal. It involves creativity, talent and skill using forecasted scenarios that develop a clear perspective of how one should predict what the future will look like; and has been one of the most emerging industries of the 21st Century. In this annotated bibliography, I will present six resources that support the three top trends in the area of event planning. The prerequisite for researching and…