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The documentary San Francisco 2.0 examines how San Francisco city officials have given tax breaks to the Silicon Valley tech industry to move to San Francisco. These new techs companies have brought in a lot of wealth to the city, but at a cost. The majority of the low-income natives are being evicted or having their rents raised so high that they can't afford them. The gentrification of the city has impacted low-income districts (for example, the mission district known for its Latin immigrants) that the residents and the culture are being displaced. I believe the documentary is important for the study of the issue of gentrification because San Fransisco was known for being-counter culture, caring for the arts and for civil progress. The housing

Introduction- The East Bay area is an economically diverse community with many satisfactory and unsatisfactory aspects. Each city had its differences and distinctions in people, settings, and cleanliness. As the bus left the station and went around the corner I could tell that we were in a low poverty city. With loose trash and debris in front of houses and apartment buildings, the area looked torn down and not very visual pleasing. Already familiar with the city of Emeryville I knew to expect a more upscale location. With plenty of name brand stores, and new apartment complexes, it was obvious this city was clean and very different from the previous location. As the bus

Public spaces are social spaces where social phenomena happens, different activities leading to different social relations and interactions. Spaces with own rhythms of use and regulations that one can discover or rediscover in different cultural context.10 steven To understand how architecture can activate public spaces through play to make social spaces, spaces for public life, this paper first investigates how architecture defines the nature of a public spaces with the possibility of engaging public into play. Then, the paper discuss how play can engage people to redefine spaces and find something that have in common with others. And finally, how people can obtain their freedom through playing in a space will be explored. To do so, the

“San Francisco is a microcosm for what is happening not only in the US, but all over the world. It is places that increasingly desirable to live in that are becoming gated communities. I’m worried about a city that is becoming uniformly wealthy, out of reach and out of touch.”- Robert Reich

The Project for Public Space have a broad range of criteria for what a place successful. Which include Access/Linkage, Comfort/Image, Uses/Activities, and Sociability. Each have questions to consider to determine if a public space is successful or a failure. Chimborazo is very accessible for anyone who would like to visit. Chimborazo is located in a safe neighborhood, that have a unique way of making an impression on visitors. Chimborazo is used by people nearby daily. Walking the dogs, taking jogs, or just getting away from the day is just a few ways the park is used. The park also had path and trails for visitors that would be interested in those activities. For people who love taking pictures Chimborazo has a good scenery. Chimborazo offer places to sit rather its in the sun or shaded area; families take advantage of the park usually taking their kids to run around, have picnics and enjoy the view that the park offers.

Two weeks after arriving in Florence, while walking home from dinner across the river, stumbled upon Piazza della Signoria, for the first time. With the sound of a street performer’s violin in the crisp night air, I sat on the edge of the open-air gallery of statues. I still do not know why the piazza affected me the way it did, but with tears in my eyes, I knew I had found a place in Florence where I could be bitter sweetly happy.

When I first came to Geneseo’s Main Street I was shocked. In my imagination it appeared to be at least twice bigger than it actually was. After wandering along Main Street for a couple of minutes I realized that Geneseo is more than just a small town somewhere in Livingstone County in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Due to its relatively small population Geneseo is a cozy and amiable environment where everyone seems to be to a part of a big family – Geneseo family.

In this project, I had a chance to explore the results of human activity, events related to the human nature and society including the city.

Often times there is a lack of seating, so we brought outside sitting to our city. Careful not to overcrowd the area or have a poor amount of seating. Another problem we have dealt with in our city is the shortfallings of gathering areas. People would complain that there were not enough places that they wanted or needed. After taking these complaints into mind we have added playgrounds, vending carts, bus stops, outdoor seating, and eye pleasing shops that serve food. We took away features that served no real purpose other than to take up space, and not allowing vehicles to take over the public spaces by adding crosswalks, sidewalks, and reasonably sized roads. Our city took the blank or boring parts of public spaces and designed and managed our precious spaces. Transit, bus, or train spots have all been located in areas that are convenient and where people want to use them. These are all improvement that our city, Apolis, made to our local public spaces.

With the help of public art, dull and tired environments are transformed to inspire the community of people working and living there. When the government pays an

Downtown could benefit from more functional open spaces, plazas and courtyards, that can be used and enjoyed day and night by residents, visitors, and workers nearby. However, it is not simply about providing space. The questions have to be ask “why would people, or any age, be attracted to and want to use the space.” These spaces must appear to the observer to be inviting and comfortable.

There are numerous public open spaces in urban areas, yet surprisingly many of them suffer from people’s under-use rather than overuse of them, even on the most beautiful days. The film focuses on discovering the different elements that, altogether, create successful open spaces in urban areas. This was done through observing what people did and where they sat in those places, and identifying what attracts people to certain open spaces more than others. The first element is ‘sit-able space’. People tend to sit where there are places to sit. More importantly, sit-able spaces need to be comfortable, hospitable, not isolated, not socially awkward (e.g. Small benches), and there needs to be a variety of them to allow people the freedom to

For some planners, they see new urbanism as copycat, but also fail to realize that modernity can’t be designed in a simplistic manner. It is a built environment therefore it needs to take into consideration multiple factors- social, economic and cultural variables. Even though there are setbacks, new urbanism is praised for its ‘deformed grids’, interconnected streets, and fine-grained block-and-lot patterns. This encourages people to interact with each other because these serve as gateways to social life of cities. The shared use of public spaces not only helps in the weaving of the society, but it also improves the health of the citizens because of increased mobility. With increased social life, public participation is highly encouraged. New urbanists conduct follow-ups among residences and ask for their opinions so that they could further improve their designs. These structures are made for these people; therefore they should provide solutions to better their

The concern here addresses three major jargons, “share businesses”, “urban areas”, and lastly “wicked problems”. The phenomena “Shared business” refers to the concept of collaborative consumption where the economic arrangement facilitates the participants to accesses the product or the service rather than an individual ownership, enabled by technologies and peer communities. A sub phenomena to this can be “shared services”, where funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an internal service provider. On the contrary the other jargon “urban areas “refers to areas with high population density and vast human built features compare to the areas astounding it and the last jargon “wicked problems”, according to Horst W.J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber, professors of design and urban planning at the University of California at Berkeley, it refers to the problem conventional method fail to resolve while they may exacerbate the situation by undesirable consequences.

Our city, New Copenhagen, is an urban utopia for those seeking a good time. New Copenhagen is a culturally diverse hotspot, and we specialize in small businesses and fine art. We’ve designed our city to make the most out of our space, with rooftop gardens to grow things on top of buildings. Our city is rather temperate, and we’ve paved it over. We import most of our goods, as we’re mostly a tourist city. We separate our zones sometimes, but we also combine them; Our residential areas are mostly separated from industrial zones, while mostly close to commercial.