Descriptive Essay On The Onion City

Urban planning is an important aspect of city life, especially in light of today’s dynamic economy and environment. With increasing levels of crime, pollution, and environmental degradation, many cities are looking for new solutions to solve these. Large influences on the ideas that are shaping urban planning today come from urban theorist, Jane Jacobs. Jacobs challenged the way urban planners, architects, urban designer and sociologist thought about cities. In order to solve “the kind of problem which cities pose”, Jacobs promotes the idea of the use of sidewalks includes three majors. It is about city sidewalk safety and sidewalk contacts. Jacobs wrote that “there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street.” Through analyzing and observing such things as city streets and sidewalks, neighborhood parks within a city and what Jacobs refers to as “the four generators of diversity”, Jacobs has developed theories that can guide city planners, architects, urban designer and most

Dolores Hayden is a poet, professor of urban studies at Yale University. “Urban History, a sense of place and the political space”. On Hayden memoir, she focus on three specific area. First, she argues, that a simple way to understand urban space is by identified cultural landmarks around us. “Place needs to be at the heart of urban landscape history”, for it is essential to what makes the geography related to the inhabitants of the city. Furthermore, Hayden believes a 'sense of place' is developed at an early age, therefore every human being has a unique sense of belongings. Lastly, she emphasize that each place in the city is connected to a social or economic reason for its existence.

The author Jeff Speck is city planner and an urban designer. He is trying to save Americans lives by trying to make the city more walkable since automobiles have now become a great danger to the Americans. This book is more concerned with cars and buildings in order to achieve the goal of a walkable city. People are the lifeblood of the city and not cars therefore, in order to pull off the feat of ushering America to the urban century, there is need to prove to people that walkability is important and also that their actions and decisions will help will to improve this aspect.

Construction of the city consumes minimal resources because the assets already present are conserved rather than destroyed. The houses themselves, although “unpainted and patched” are simple but effective structures. This shows how rather than dwelling on superfluous aesthetics, the older generation devotes itself to more fruitful endeavors. For example, residences sport compost heaps. The implementation of such devices preserves and recycles many resources, further emphasizing the conservative ideology of the older generation. While their practical lifestyle is compared to “savagery” by the younger generation, the city of the old generation is really an example of their efficiency.

Much has been said about the development patterns that are found throughout towns and cities in North America. In the New York Times, a post authored by Vishaan Chakrabarti discuses the trends facing American cities in the article “America’s Urban Future (Chakrabarti).” This article talks about the ways in which American cities are seeing resurgence in their urban areas, and new population segments are moving into once blighted areas. In order to convey the changes occurring throughout our communities, Chakrabarti relies on ethos and logos to provide a foundation for the information, and effectively uses pathos to convince the audience that they should care about the subject in question.

Cities are generators of economic life and source of changes in the world. Thereby, Jane Jacobs in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities puts into relief the role of cities on the social and economic levels, while denouncing the disastrous consequences of urban renewal programs. To that extent, in chapters 2 and 3, she discusses "The Uses of Sidewalks”, arguing that over all people need safety and trust in their city. Therefore, first she claims the necessity of keeping streets and sidewalks safe because they are the “vital organs” of cities (29). Secondly, she argues that the functioning of cities should be organized in order to foster human interaction in which “casual public

It is no surprise to a see a group of businesses such as Petco, Dollar Tree, Famous Footwear, rue 21, sprint on one side of the street and across from it an empty muddy lot. It is common to see abandon buildings that are a result of an unsuccessful business. It does not take much to come across unfinished streets or dead ends. It is a town under construction that is surrounded by many farms and empty acres of land.

The city is a symbolic type of the culture produced by industrialization a world of decay

During the 1980s-2010s, many urban conflicts which towards many formation of institutionalization of legalization the Treasure Hill urban landscaping. The many struggles of informal forces which drove the recognition of this "slum ugly" visuality, especially through e-participation, until the city government accepted it by many sectors' efforts. I will sort out the vital occasions of the events, and discovered the networking of the process on the issues. And the turning concepts which ever developed in order to tolerance the "new" landscaping among the the media winning the reckon credit of this vernacular (key) city landscape, e.g. parallel to "101" a ever been worldly highest skyscraper (2006, NY times). In 2013, the site has been registered

Modernists had to find ways to confront and combat the expressway world. One of the ways this could be done is for modernists to come up with different ways to live a modern life. This chapter focuses on how the expressway world affected the streets of New York in the 1960’s. Jane Jacob’s book The Death and Life in Great American Cities, has played a crucial role in “changing the whole orientation of city and community planning” (314). By describing her everyday life, Jacobs demonstrates that the streets “was experienced as the medium in which the totality of modern material and spiritual forces could meet, clash, interfuse and work out their ultimate meanings and fates” (316). She refers to the remains of the city of the Haussmann age as the old city. Jacobs advices that we should keep the remains of the Haussmann age cities in order to “maintain the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city” (317). She points out that the urban renewal process aided in the destruction of the environment (streets and sidewalks) which modern values can be appreciated. In other words, we must preserve the old city life for the sake of modernism. Berman advices that the people of the city whom have become subjects of modernization, to become comfortable and take control of the modern world. In the 1960s the people of the city were fighting for their homes.

One look at this city shows that it once had life to its streets. The multitude of empty shop windows and tall office buildings give an example of the past flair of this area. Years and years ago, a person could walk into one of these shops and be greeted by the family who owned it. The aroma of Adolph’s would fill Plant Avenue, along with a crispness

The architecture leads to the city, polis, Which are many, many people who aspire to freedom and independence to your projects, owner of his nose. They are Individuals, social, constantly changing and unexpected, the evidenced in the political fragility that was exposed the working class in recent

“The best that can be said of the conception is that it did afford a chance to experiment with some physical and social planning theories which did not pan out. “ This quote reflects Jane Jacob’s philosophical ideas in an attempt to criticize the social housing’s design approach and its associated urban planning in modern era. “The physical and social theories” outlines the urban planning idea of social housing (Utopian idea) and according to Jane’s statement, such experiment of these theories were deem to be unsuccessful. It is inevitably certain to some extent that a provocative statement towards modern era social housing approaches would hold true due to the minimal success the plans brought to the city, such as solving the working class commendations temporarily. Nevertheless, it is a failure to deliver long-standing social improvements corresponded with the increasing suspicion of modernism, one cannot simply attribute ill fate to its “innovative physical features” (As Jane said, the Utopian and Utopia), but should rather considered a range of other elements in the larger aspect of society: factors such as difficulty of racial integration, problems of financing and management, lack of bridging between architecture and planning, as well as the increasing preference of suburban lifestyle from the rising mid class. These problems reflected evidently in some stereotypes of social housing communities built in the modern era such as Pruitt-Igoe, sunny side Gardens, Paul

His first comprehensive city plan was La Ville Contemporaine (the Contemporary City) a project to house three million inhabitants designed in 1922. This was Le Corbusier’s first attempt to reconcile man, nature and machine (Fishman, 189). The city starts at the center with a transportation hub for busses, trains, cars and planes. Surrounding this hub there will be an organized cluster of 24 60-story skyscrapers. These glass and steel skyscrapers are cross-shaped. Each individual skyscraper is to be set within a large rectangular green space. The skyscrapers house the “brain” of the city. The city is beautifully geometric and symmetrical. Placing the skyscrapers in the city center reinforces the emphasis on capital as a means of creating a successful city. Because of the shape and mass of each skyscraper, they have more usable space than an entire neighborhood but also relieves density and congestion because of the organization (Frampton, 46).

The garden city idea emerged during a time when countries were beginning to urbanize (15% of the world’s population were urban, a rapidly growing figure). There, the living and working environments were squalid and the working