Zoning

Goal: to write a blog post about legal problems that can occur when selling a home in Florida Total Word Count In This Document: 1039 Title: ?Trouble In Paradise: Six Legal Problems That Can Happen When Selling Your Florida Home? If you plan on selling your home in Florida, then you are about to undergo a long and complicated process that can either go very smoothly or very roughly. The best thing you can do when it comes to selling your Florida home is to be informed and prepared for any…

Urban refers to the built up space of a central city and its suburbs. It has a lack of agricultural area and is distinctly non-rural. Urban geography has four subfields that will be discussed in this summary. The first is the history of urbanization. Next, is intraurban geography, followed by interurban geography. The final subfield is urban planning and policy. Why do people live in cities and when did they start? Before urbanization, people where clustered in agricultural villages and were…

After reading The Sprawl Debate and the Principles of New Urbanism the topic that really stood out to me was mixed land uses and its increase in density. In the Sprawl Debate Article it explains how new urbanist communities are meant to be more than subdivisions. Its plans are to have an open organized row of services and workplace locations by only developing a broad mix of land. Now this idea can be viewed as either a Pro or Con. Sprawl Debate: Viewing the article the overall statement was…

order for Tempe to match up its general plan with boarding cities, they obtained help from the Maricopa Association of Governments. The Maricopa Association of Governments uses a regional planning document to make cities like Tempe, construct similar zoning areas on the city’s boarders (United). Being surrounded on all boarders, the city of Tempe really uses this regional general plan to their advantage. To the North, Tempe shares a boarder with Scottsdale and encompasses a mix of commercial and…

Owning land is an important part of the American Dream for many families, but even the smartest landowners don’t always know the full story of exactly what their property deed entails. And if you do own land, that's not a good thing. That’s where the right team of property surveyors can help. If you live in the greater Hudson Valley area, Fusco Engineering & Land Surveying can assist you in identifying all of the nuances of what land ownership means for your situation. Here are three reasons…

which has led to a continued effort to maintain homogeneity in white neighborhoods. Today, many of these racially biased policies are practiced in the form of zoning laws. Zoning laws vary across the United States, and within different cities within the Chicago metro area. In Chicago, The Illinois Policy Institute points out, exclusionary zoning restricts an adequate supply of low income housing, especially in white communities, as a result fewer low income and minority people are capable of…

Week 7 Typology and Morphology: Koolhaas: Manhattanism vs Atlanta Questions: In what way do contradictions of cities like Atlanta and Manhattan enhance our experience of the city? How does the morphology of a grid layout impact the movement of people, and how does that impact the experience of the urbanism? In Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York, he engages the readers through his review and criticism of modern urbanism and architecture. He explores the city of Manhattan as an urban…

What is a sand mine? Sand mining is a process that removes sand from an open pit. Where has the sand mine at Cornulla existed? Sand mining in Cronulla existed in Kurnell Peninsula in the government area of Sutherland Shire Sydney New South Wales. When did the sand mine at Cornulla close? Why? Sand Mine at Cronulla was Closed since the 1968 because they were removed to allow more tonnes of sand per year and they supplies the building sand What building development has occurred at Cronulla? The…

Chapter 2, "Nobody but a Bunch of Mothers," from Eric Avila's "The Folklore of the Freeway" exposes the harsh impact of the highway on urban communities, highlighting experiences of women during the 1950s and 1960s. The construction of highways under the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act led to the displacement of many people from their homes and communities, which inflicted conflict and harsh discrimination against these predominantly minority groups. The viewpoint of women in this…

Car dependency is one of the most important problems of the United States. Owning a personal car is mandatory in most of the small towns. All roads are designed for cars without pedestrian ways, and so much lands are reserved for parking lots. Pedestrian-friendly cities’ rates are really low when it is compared with car-friendly ones. As people have difficulties to reach services and activities without owning a car, having a car also is not that much easy and unproblematic solution. The…