I can identify what type of process in history some cities and neighborhoods had gone through. Still, this new knowledge brings me many questions: What is the architectural style of city where I live? Is my old city a modern city? The City of Los Angeles is one of the largest and most expanded metropolis in the USA. It is a city composed of many neighborhoods that overlap their limits by history, culture, and diversity. I live in the City of Claremont, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los
What are smart cities? There is no clear definition of smart city. Smart city carry a vision that an urban space is well planned and structured, technologically sound and environment friendly. It should evolve itself as the technology advance. It should be highly integrated with latest technologies which help in making people live livable, workable and sustain able. What is smart about them? According to smart city council, all the data is collected through censors and processed in the central data
American cities in the 1900’s were the prime place to be. Cities were clean, industries were booming and education was a priority. “The city, not the farm, had become the locus of national experience” (Chudacoff and Smith 255). Everyone wanted to live their dreams in the city until they shortly realized the cities became overpopulated, hectic, and stressful. Streets became filled with garbage from people littering, traffic is always a problem, and there is no where to relax and enjoy yourself without
1. What is a Creative City? Competition has increased extensively as the ideology of a ‘global village’ has grown in support and has become a goal that many cities are attempting to achieve. This has resulted in cities adopting ingenious and original strategies in order to remain ahead of the game and these strategies have ensued cities to grow into creative cities. But what exactly is a creative city? Sire Peter Hall, an English professor, wrote in his book “Cities in Civilisation” that the phenomenon
Aristotle, we encounter different views in how to create justice and wisdom in a city, while both philosophers try to find the best way to rule such city. Plato and Aristotle attempt to create what they believe is the ideal city which can create happiness among its people. Since Aristotle was a student of Socrates we can encounter similarities in their views but at the same time Aristotle presents in his definition of the city what we would call a more modern view of the polis. It is important to start
problems in big cities is overpopulation. Today we are seeing an increase in the population of Wichita. This can have both, a positive impact, and a negative impact. Many consider this a local problem because with the increase of population in a city everything else also increases. Surely there might be more income, but the crime rate will also increase as well as the city expenses. Wichita has been known as the air capital of the world, and the neon capital of the world too. The city was considered
Jane Jacobs understood the importance of this and knew how cities could maintain this safety, but warned of what would become of them if they did not diverge from the current city styles. More modern planners, such as Joel Kotkin argue that Jacobs’s lesson is no longer applicable to modern cities because they have different functions than those of the past. This argument is valid in the sense that city
In Fernando Meirelles’ crime drama, City of God, we gain an insight into the hellish life that exists within the borders of the Cidade de Deus. In fact the neighborhood is so full of crime, poverty, and hopelessness that at times it feels as though it is being filmed in an active warzone. Perhaps the most shocking aspect of this film is the fact that all the horrors of this favela stemmed from government planning. The City of God was founded in 1960, under the plan of the Brazillian government to
present we are facing many problems in our cities such as structural health of building, waste management, air and noise pollution, energy consumption and traffic congestion. Our project is to monitor these problems and provide a solution. By using an IOT, monitoring becomes quite easy as from anywhere we can monitor it. In our project, we will work on problems of waste management, air and noise pollution, street lighting and make a city “The Smart City”. The Internet of Things (IOT) is a system
Can Future Cities be Designed to be Truly Sustainable? In a world where over half of the human population calls a city their home, the need to restructure and revolutionize the way we design our urban environments has never been greater. Currently, the notion that these vast metropolises of metal, concrete, and sludge could one day be fully realized pillars of sustainability is certainly laughable. However, when these same cities are constantly growing and multiplying across the globe, all the while
individuals within a city or town is an eventual occurrence. Since cities allows people to engage in a far greater amount of activities than they would be able to on their own. Cities are created in certain areas for many reasons, which often are driven by economic or social reasons. One of the many reasons that cities are created in a certain location is that the location has access to certain natural resources such as water, minerals or other resources. Another reason that cities are created is that
The City of Ur The dessert is a terrifically uninhabitable place. There is little or no water, there is no vegetation, there is little wildlife, and the wildlife available is not particularly appetizing. There is no useful wood or stone as building materials, and so to live in the desert is completely dependant on the importation of all good from far away lands. Why then are cities built in desserts. In my mind these were cities build by people exiled to the desert with no other possible place
In Ernest W. Burgess’s “The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project,” (1925), the author delves deep into the processes that go into the construction of a modern city or urban environment. Burgess lists its following qualities: skyscrapers, the department store, the newspaper, shopping malls, etc. (p. 154). Burgess also includes social work as being part of a modern urban environment. This is supported by his construction model based on concentric circles that divided Chicago into
readings is the city seen as sociological construct, and what makes a city. It also focuses on urban in a modern episteme and how urban has become the object of analysis. How urbanism comes in to play when defining city. The expansion of city, the segregation of places is talked in the burgess article. Money becomes an important part in urbanism explained by simmel.The certain features which a city requires to become livable is explained by Jane Jacobs. According to Lewis Mumford a city is a sociological
Thesis: In Steven Galloway's “The Cellist of Sarajevo,” the city is symbolic for the occurrences in its citizen’s lives. As the city's symbols for pride deteriorate with the effects of war, so do the character's symbols. Both the city and the citizen’s are faced with inner conflict, that, unless they can overcome, will destroy their very core. Finally, with the grace and healing power of the cellist's music, both the city and the citizen's lives can be seen as they previously were, and reclaim themselves
the quality of life in the city started to degrade and air pollution increased. Increased population gave rise to urban sprawl i.e. wide decentralization of the city outwards. The factors that responsible for bad shape of cities are excessive dependency on cars, the poorer public transport, lack of walking and cycling pathways and the excessive growth of built-up areas. The main concern how the cities should be developed in future into sustainable model, the compact city hypothesis has been proposed
A city has to be beautiful, though the definition of “beauty” is so vague. The beauty can be physical, such as enjoyable parks, streetscapes, architectural facades, the sky fragment through freeways and trees; or it can be the beauty of livelihood, people, and history. As landscape architects, we are creating beautiful things or turning the unpleasant memorial. As we can see, the unmeasurable factors are mostly about social consciousness, culture and a higher level of development stages. Most developing
Problems in Developed Cities The existing problems of traffic and pedestrian congestion in Chester are many and varied. The main ones are vehicles in the main shopping streets and tourism to the historic areas of the cities, traffic delays on the restricted approach to the city, delays to the bus services, queuing for parking spaces and dangerous conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. There are numerous solutions to the congestion problems in Chester, each of which brings its own
Have you ever visited Mexico City?(hook) Mexico City is a huge city. Therefore, there´s a lot of people but this is not always a good thing. This is one of the effects of urbanization. Urbanization is when people from rural places move to urban areas in order to look for a better life for their families. They go in search for a job, and give their kids a better education.(background) I think that urbanization impacts standards of living because there are too many people, which leads to not enough
Cities by John Reader, the acclaimed historian attempts to dive readers deep into the territory of urban historians, depicting and analyzing the greatest cities of planet earth. From the earliest examples of cities to the ultra modern cities, 7000-9000 years later, of Mumbai or Tokyo, Reader paints the picture loud and clear. Cities around the globe are home to half of the entire planets population! Those living in cities, consume nearly 75% of all natural resources in the entire world. From the