City Of God Reflection

One of Glaeser’s major concerns relates to the ‘cost’ of urban concentration, i.e. problems that arise in high-density populations due to poor or incomplete urban planning, ultimately impacting the ability of citizens to make valuable interactions. Examples include poor sanitation facilities that permit the spread of disease and hinder productivity;

Planning and management needs to happen in all countries over the world because no matter how different the level of development between countries the problems will be same in urban areas. These problems that need to be planned and managed in the urban areas of the city are becoming increasingly significant due to the fact that there has been a hug increase in the number of people living in cities worldwide, just over fifty percent of the world are now living in urban areas. The main reason for this is the huge increase in urbanisation which is defined as an increase in the proportion of

Network City 2005 emphasizes on the importance of the efficiency of land use and infrastructure (compact and interconnected city), protection of the environment and heritage, efficiency of energy resource usage, and increasing community cohesiveness. While the State Sustainability Strategy provide a framework on plan making in order to in line with the vision, goals and strategy to achieve sustainability. The other document which is liveable neighborhoods ed. 3 provides guidance in developing regions that emphasizing on the convenience and safety for pedestrians by creating an interconnected environment, maximizing land use, designing more compact residential areas, providing public services and public transport, as well as increasing the community’s sense of place. While The Perry Lake Redevelopment Act 2005 provides specific requirements that must be included in the plan before it is approved by the Minister of

In the nonfiction book written by Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, the title holds significant meaning. The reason behind this is explored within the first chapter, “Personal Geography,” as it concisely represents why Mehta chose this as the name of his work (3). Through the telling of his history in Bombay as a child and his rediscovery of it coming back as an adult, Mehta sets the stage for an in-depth description of this city and its nature throughout the rest of the book. This transformation from an insider to the culture of the city, to an outsider, to a potential insider is the essence of this first chapter, and overall the inspiration that Mehta uses to write this book. He makes the reader understand that this act of recording all of this information about Bombay is not to only to educate the reader, but also to educate and reacquaint himself with his city. Through immersing himself in the culture and the lifestyle, he finally receives the citizenship that he lost when he was a child and has been desiring since then.

The city was becoming an inhumane place to live and today present different view. We are experiencing the emergence of a new urbanism that, unlike traditional planning does not seek the satisfaction only, of the maximum economic efficiency of a city, where the flow of capital, selling cars, real estate speculation and manufacturing productivity are above the minimum human needs. The "New Urbanism" offers a balanced city, where economic, social and environmental are in the same plane of importance, where humans and their physiological and psychological needs are the starting point of urban planning. The New Urbanism simply proposes a human city; we might well call, planning of the city for the Humans.

In the introduction of The Death and life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs acknowledges city planning and the need for a reform by addressing the effects of beautification and the lack of resources and support. In her introduction of The Death and life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs introduces city planning and presents the reader with "real life" view. She also explains the principles of planning and the effects it contains on social and economic issues. Jacobs highlights the theory of beautification and the lack of city planners understanding the needs of the general people.

The coaching staff at Godby was extremely flexable anytime I had school work or an exam to study for they would allow me to either leave practice early or work on my assignments during practice as long as I have completed my daily task. The coaching staff was also very patient with me which was something I felt was important. They understood that I was new to their football system so they worked with me as I tried to learn the teams procedures, different plays and even getting to know the players better. They were also very mannarable when it came to me being the only women working around the program.

The wellbeing of people is interconnected with the wellbeing of cities. What people think and feel about the city is highly interacted with the civilization and urbanization of the city, yet planning and urban design also play a crucial role in this situation. Cities are where humanity’s innovation, creative and intellectual ideation take place. These potentials that come from human integration is major fact that lead to the success of a

In many parts of the world, poverty is one of the reason why people from countryside moved to the city to seek better life. The city has many things to offer, to explore and to live with. But living in a city is also a big challenge, where violence can happen anytime, where gangsters can rule the city and where police authorities presence are in every corner. While

Choosing a specific location for both where the film should be shot and where the action happens, is never coincidental. As a proof for that assumption stands in two films; neo-Noir film Chinatown (1974) directed by Roman Polanski and documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) directed by Stacy Peralta. Both movies relate to various aspects and issues of urban studies and demonstrate various approaches towards the city, urban environment, and population. In Chinatown, for example, the movie makers cover the phenomenon of urbanization and it influence on the nearby territories and settlements. The movie Dogtown and Z-Boys, the issue of adaptive reuse of space is discussed

Urban Cultures usually embedded with imagine of modern city. Concept of Primate city try to development in each city. By follow this concept the government emphasize a large of fiscal to develop city and expect the progress would spread to around this city. Urban culture study as material and can explain logic of its growth in professions. Otherness we can understand “City” as “Something” that belonging out of our self (in this article will separated City as geography material and Urban as way of life in each spaces) and can design as city planner (Pitch, 2016). In another way urban culture is way of life and can practice in everyday life. Urban culture don’t static in each spaces but there are dynamic in everyday life and can spread in every

[1] Explained by this exemplifies that a city should have a foundation for it to grow off of. I do believe this will also be the doing of the citizens that help plan at meetings with communities, yet a good foundation is what will lead to a “good city”. Furthermore, with the influence of citizens, a good city will develop from nothing and will have a sense of cultural background from the past of citizens who live there currently.

Kevin lynch’s book ‘Good city form’ gives us the answer of the question that what are the factors and aspects which makes good city and how to achieve it as cities are too complicated objects, they are far beyond the control, and they also affect the too many people with too many cultural variations. The book provides knowledge of various urban theories through comprehensive discussions.

A Slum refers to informal settlements within urban areas or cities. The informal settlements depict inadequate housing and miserable condition with reference to living standards (Meade p 43). In the slums, numerous individuals seek housing facilities within small living spaces. The slums also lack basic local authority services such as sanitation, collection of waste, water, drainage systems, street lighting, and emergency roads. Most slums also lack schools, hospital, and public places that might offer adequate environment for social amenities. The experience of France illustrates the essence of slums within the modern society (Oberti p 58). Crime and unemployment are on the rise within the slums because of the poor

Cities are places which have huge amount of gathering of people, collection of economic activities and complex infrastructure for people which all together are supported by transport systems.