Western Area

The Searchers, a film directed by John Ford (1956) is a classic American Western featuring America’s original cowboy John Wayne. In the film, the main protagonist Ethan Edwards comes home to Texas after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Both John Ford and John Wayne depict Ethan Edwards as an extremely isolated, bitter, and misunderstood character. When Ethan finally comes home from the war he mistakes one of his brother’s children for another child that has since full grown in…

different. For over a hundred years the “Western” style of film has cemented itself as a hollywood staple, but has the exhaustion of its content pushed the limits of what it means to be a western? To accurately depict what it means to be considered a true Western, we first must reference the most notorious movies it has to offer; Shane, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. These movies amongst many others follow a series of elements that fits them into the Western Genre. Takes place in the…

Driving through the Western University gates on Richmond Street in the Fall of 2011 was my first glance into a place I would soon call my home; although, I did not know it at first. As an impressionable 17-year-old, I did not have a clue as to what I was looking for in a university. I felt a variety of emotions when touring Western during my last year of high school, including, but not limited to, excitement, insecurity, anxiety, and confusion. Such a large campus overwhelmed me; however, I…

Communal Areas Cleaning London Do you own a large commercial property, student property, flat share or office block? If you do, then you will have to address cleaning communal areas. The reason is because you must provide residents or visitors to such property with healthy living conditions that stand up to certain standards. You could try and take on such task on your own, but odds are it will be too large a job. By outsourcing the job to a communal areas cleaning company, you can take the…

The design elements in the three scenes by Serlio, tragic, comic and satiric that are relevant to contemporary street design in Western Canada would be its neighbourhoods and central business district. The neighbourhoods would relate to the comic stage, which involves private houses and apartments that occupy citizens such as average families, storeowners, professionals and others similar individuals in their homes and on their streets. The comic street view is lined with mixed-use buildings…

(Tuñón, 2006). Migration into urban areas has created overcrowding, increased competition for resources and congestion in transportations. The rural areas deserted by the migrants faced new challenges in development such as slow economic growth and shortage of labour force. This would lead to further divergence in the development level between urban and rural places. This would lead to more workers moving into urban areas looking for job opportunities…

For the past few decades, suburbanization of population and employment has been easily observed in large metropolitan areas all over the world, which is generally referred to as “sprawl”. This phenomenon has accompanied not only the spatial redistribution of population, but also the geographical relocation of firms, which has brought about several urban problems – for instance, severe traffic congestion due to the growing distance between jobs and housing, inefficient energy consumption due to…

The Socio-spatial Dialectic and Segregation in the Industrial and Apartheid City There is a strong correlation between the social aspect of living and the spacial aspect of living, especially in urban areas and the modern city, as defined by (Pacione, 2005). These aspects have had a significant effect on world history, such as in the industrial city and the apartheid city. The Socio-spatial Dialectic The socio-spatial dialectic (Soja, 1980), describes the interaction between space and society…

The world is urbanising rapidly. In 2008, the number of people living in cities exceeded those in the country side. Urbanisation per se is often a positive development, as urban areas tend to be more productive than rural areas…yet rapid urbanisation can outreach the capacities of cities to absorb and cater for an ever growing number of inhabitants (Matuschke 2009). India is not an exception to the general urban scenario in the world. It is becoming more urban albeit regional variations across…

Seattle was first founded by the Denny Party in 1851, who were mapping the Western area of the United States. The group first settled and established a town, which they called New York-Alki. A little while later, the party moved a short distance across Elliott Bay, where they founded the town of Seattle. The town was named after a Duwamish Indian leader named Sealth that the Denny Party had befriended. The town of Seattle would soon grow into the major city that it is today. The current dynamic…