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Cities Make Us Smarter Triumph of the City, written by Edward Glaeser, dives into the topic of cities and how they have transformed and shaped our lives. Plastered across the cover reads, “How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier”. Glaeser provides fantastic insights into each of these adjectives, but one stands apart from the rest. Cities make us smarter. Glaeser makes this clear when he states in the introduction, “Cities, the dense agglomerations…

Batuhan Şen 15010003012 Lect. Esen Kara ENG113 They All Know It Is There "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is a short story by Ursula Le Guin which tells the story of a city called Omelas. The city is unique, because while the citizens dwell in wealth and prosperity, one kid must suffer and live in filth. The story questions whether can you live while an innocent kid suffers, or would you walk away? In this way, Scapegoating becomes necessity for the order of the Omelas society. In this…

This clearly shows the comparison between open space of air traffic with the thin overfilled and jammed lanes in the slum. This scene in the movie shows that the infuriated security guards understood the aspects of slums that they are not aware of. This is the physical structure of the slum from which the guards and police are estranged, regardless of their everyday happenstance with it. Salaam Bombay’s opening scene shows how slum is disorganized and messy with everything muddled up. But…

Sexual Racism in the American Societies The short story Naked by Joyce Carol Oates talks about anonymous female figure that lived a big shock because of the violence event she went through, that she was attacked by group of children which includes boys and girls, the eldest child was 12 years old. The writer describes those children in the story that they were, “small pack of black children…” this quote from the story would give the reader a hint to think if this story is about racism in…

American Apartheid Systematic racism exists in different realms, affecting one or more races and impacting their lives with a focus on minorities , which overall mostly correlates with class. While I am not saying blacks are the only groups that can be a target of racism, I will say it's harder for a colored, or black person to hide their race in order to free themselves from the social and economic stigmas that it holds. One can imagine a wealthy business person and a poor homeless man and…

In urban areas where there is a significant population of low-income families, there is an increase of problems with obesity. Rail and beltway communities afford its citizens the opportunity to become more active by promoting the use of shared-use pathways…

Statement of issue
The intent of this policy brief is to argue for gentrification in the City of New York. Gentrification in New York City has been a major role-player in the city's economic wealth because at its core, it is an urban "renewal" process. It allows the city to thrive economically, which in turn allows for investment in other aspects of the city such as schools and transportation. However, the rise of gentrification has an impact on every resident, whether it be good or bad.…

of an urban area; it can be beneficial to the public by them being able to gain facilities like hospitals or restaurants, or it can be harmful and prevent supplies like technology from being given to schools. The economy regulates how the money in an area is spent and it shares information about the city’s health. In the study by Sinclair et al. (2014), the residents in Canada share how the urban forests can increase the real estate value of the neighborhoods and houses among the urban forest…

titled, “How Hell Moved from the City to the Suburbs”, she gently and respectively rejects the perception of suburbia that most of American’s hold in their minds today. Inside this book, “The New Suburban History”, Nicolaides explains why the great urban scholars and writers of the 1950’s and 1960’s painted the wrong picture of the “hell” suburbia was and is seen today. Her opinion may be difficult to undercover in the beginning of her piece due to her mostly positive regard to Louis Wirth,…

Big buildings ignore the context around them; they are independent of the surrounding fabric they are meant to tie into, becoming objects that merely hover in space. The sudden appearance of these big buildings diminishes the aspects of quality and experience causing the concept of architecture to be rethought. Their distant relationship with the ground, due to technological advances such as the elevator, creates an inwardly focused space. The building only continues to grow taller, allowing…