Urban walkability takes a significant part of quality of life for a neighbourhood. This essay will argues walkability in City of Whittlesea in three parts. First, the essay will argue accessibility of footpath by analysing space perception and landscape design. Second, the essay will discuss inclusion of walking environment for various groups. Lastly, the essay will suggest how planning could improve accessibility and inclusion of the site. The planning in the City of Whittlesea has neglected…
ABSTRACT 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…
Examining the Legend of Bloody Mary and the Relationship to Young Girls Nikyra Capson Bloody Mary has become a hoax associated with the coming of age for pre-teen girls and has multiple versions and different roots depending on the context on which it is given. A hoax is a legend used by the teller to alter certain behaviors of the listeners, usually by fear. In the case of this particular legend, the teller is trying to get others to attempt to summon Bloody Mary’s ghost. This legend is a…
being unemployed however I will be discussing two which are Critical Urban Theory and Human Capitol Theory. These two theories will contribute to the role that it plays and why it will show why it is important to adopt a theory or theories. Critical Urban Theory Critical Urban Theory kept appearing while doing my research on Urban Theory. According to Peter Marcuse, a Professor at Grand Valley State University, “A critical urban theory can develop the principles around which the deprived and the…
preference of urban life during the Progressive Era (Document 2). This occurred because of such technological advances, new job opportunities offered, and the dreamlike rumors about cities: the streets being painted in gold, job opportunities everywhere, and each corner teeming with a new adventure filled with new people. According to Document 1, the urban population massively multiplied into becoming almost half of the rural population. This is due to urbanization and the appeal to urban…
Gulsrud and Rutt in their paper “Green justice in the city: A new agenda for urban green space research in Europe” talks about the benefits urbans green space has on both the environment and the people within the city (2016). However, Bixby et al. in their paper “Associations between Green Space and Health in English Cities: An Ecological, Cross-Sectional Study”…
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…
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…