Urban studies and planning

landscapes, with wild plants and animals being replaced with concrete buildings and paved roads. This almost universal approach to urban development is causing humans to lose parts of their local identities, landscapes, biodiversity and environments. The damage to nature is further exacerbate with city-builders often leaving non-human lives…

states that some companies would like to make the urban as their headquarters in today’s world. Moreover, Mara specifically describes that the drawbacks and benefit for the tech companies built headquarters in urban areas. According to Mara, there are some negative impact if the headquarter of a company was built in the city. Firstly, there are serious burden on public transport when more and more company built their headquarters in the center of urban areas. Moreover, Mara explain this by…

Density is a controversial term. Increased density is feared by those who imagine ugly buildings, overshadowed open space, parking problems, and irresponsible residents. It is promoted by those who value urbane streetscapes, efficient infrastructure supply, walkable neighborhoods, and increased housing options. However, within these debates is a surprising lack of clarity about what counts when considering density, and about how to measure it. This design brief outlines a number of general…

seems to be the case that after reading both the passages from Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, that planning a city layout is a concept that requires strategic thinking in regard to a specific arrangement that represent something beyond itself. It is essentially a game plan with various aspects that come into play. In other words, more goes into the planning of a city then just the basis of drawing line representing streets and squares representing buildings. Nonetheless,…

shares her insights into urban planning which is explained in her video Urban Wisdom. She presented that the notions motivating city development in the beginning six decades within the twentieth century were largely confusing, theoretical images of the city, unconnected from any full understanding of what truly makes cities work, when they do so. Jane Jacobs was a keen observer of modern city life, highly alert to the concrete circumstances that tend to create a modern urban life that might…

from a working environment towards a more global and tourist attraction space. People began to commute from suburb to city (Hollow, 2011). The coming of the streetcar in 1888 changed the spatial configuration of many urban areas from that of a compact city to that of a star shaped urban area. This influx in traffic flow created havoc on the routes to and from the suburbs. Rush hour…

With reference to Harvey, David. 2000. "The Spaces of Utopia," Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds, Part II (Twynstra: Amersfoort, Netherlands), 53-81. The history and the diversity of the megacities has come since the eighteenth century, and it became more complicated with current technology and innovations, in every decade different thoughts and concepts have been raised with the definition of the sustainable city. Turning over cities to a sustainable cities, is a long-term investment,…

For Bellamy, the utopian Boston is the city of order, but with preserved historical heritage. The physical city in the novel is a shell of the organically developing city. The urban environment alleviates the sufferings of the industrial city. Bellamy claims that the urban landscape is a facilitator of the industrial city dwellers' lives. Various social virtues and other benefits of the society are available for the citizens of the ordered city. The author says that the society must endure what…

suffer from a lack of exposure to nature, Serenbe is a successful experiment of what a healthy and social community should be. With urban and rural…

Zwia Lipkin’s book investigates the history and urban development of Nanjing through demonstrating how the Nationalist government managed various social problems in the city and the continuous effort to create the desired model of a “modern” national capital between 1927-1937. Lipkin recounts in detail how the Nationalist aimed to boost the image of the new capital by eliminating various social problems including refugees, shantytowns, rickshaw pullers, prostitutes and beggars in the city in…