Zoning

In late 2016, Madrid's Mayor Manuela Carmena reiterated her plan to kick personal cars out of the city center. On Spanish radio network Cadena Ser, she confirmed that Madrid's main avenue, the Gran Vía, will only allow access to bikes, buses, and taxis before she leaves office in May 2019. It's part of a larger effort to ban all diesel cars in Madrid by 2025. But the Spanish city is not the only one getting ready to take the car-free plunge. Urban planners and policy makers around the world…

city comprehensive plan (Johnston, 1973). The Bartholomew comprehensive plan involved six components that would create an attractive and efficient city (Johnston, 1973). These components included streets, transit, transportation, public recreation, zoning, and civic art (Johnston, 1973). These components would be further developed by using a systematic approach that involved surveying existing conditions, estimating future needs, articulating what planning standards and principles will be used,…

My internship during the fall semester for US 460 consisted of being a teacher’s aide for the sophomore class in the President’s Leadership Program. I was actually lucky enough to be able to work with two amazing leaders this semester in Steven Trujillo, and Shanna Farmer. They both have previously graduated from the program, and have teamed up this semester to lead the sophomore class of US 260 through their learning experience and shadowing process. The leadership program works under the rules…

Poverty in itself however, creates barriers to education; due to the decile and zoning system and European ideal of going to ‘better’ (higher decile) schools house prices in zoned areas are much higher, thus those living in poverty are unlikely to have access to such schools (St. John & Wynd, 2008). Instead lower-decile schools often create an atmosphere lacking of ambition and hope as many children in these schools do not have the basics such as warm clothing, shoes and enough food. Without the…

attention and stay engaged when the topic or conversation doesn 't interest me. However when saying this I’m not suggesting this happens with every conversation. For example, when listening in lectures or presentations I often find myself day dreaming or “zoning out”. This is an area of listening I can improve on. When talking with someone one-to-one I find I pay much closer attention to the smaller details of the conversation such as body language, tone of voice and facial expressions. I think…

York City. As Steven Johnson mentions in the book, Florence is an establishment based on one solid urban policy and regulation by flowing the rules by Jane Jacobs that were settled half of century ago shorter blocks, livelier sidewalks, mixed-used zoning, and pedestrian-based transportation. Despite the digital revolution, Florence today adapts the tradition of self-organizing. Unlike, New York City which is seen as a chaotic pattern- an element of defense with the construction of underground…

to suffer from high infant mortality rate, poverty, unequal employment, lack of educational attainment, and a weak relationship to the state. In terms of spatial and residential segregation, racist policies such as redlining, restrictive covenants, zoning, and discriminatory lending have socially reproduced inequality in overall…

Historical and contemporary issues associated with the apartheid system of South Africa The apartheid era of South Africa refers to the time period of 1948-1994 where the political system in power enforced strict legislation promoting racial segregation. Apartheid which literally means separateness, was the slogan used by the Afrikaner National Party for their victorious electoral campaign in 1948. Racial segregation had been a prominent theme in South Africa well before the apartheid era began…

Prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre once wrote that the tendency to reduce space ‘to parcels, to images, to facades that are made to be seen and to be seen from’, is a tendency that degrades the very notion of it. Architecture inhabits space, the concept of which, albeit difficult to grasp is made possible through the interpretations of those who populate it. It is even possible to say that there are as many places as people in a space. This concept is central to the discourse of…

The Walton Estate is a thousand acre piece of land owned by the illusive Thomas Walton; Mr. Walton is a European man in his late twenties, most women, myself included opps I just broke the third person narrator oh well I plead postmodernism, would consider him to be a hansom man; he is 6’1”, light brown hair styled in an effortless messy bedhead, fit, six pack if you know what I mean, and is notoriously single. Thomas is known for being the sole inheritor of his father's estate and his…