Green Spaces And The City Of London

The analysis of economic driven gentrification is clearly illustrated in London beginning from the 1950s. This process began in the Canonbury area of Islington; spread to Barnsbury and other parts of Islington, as well as Camden, Notting Hill, Primrose Hill, Kentish Town, Holland Park, and West Greenwich in the 1960s; and reached as far as Hackney in East London and parts of South London like Lambeth, Battersea, Clapham, and Fulham in the 1970s. (Moran, 2007, p.101) Before the 1950s, the North London Borough of Islington was at a broken area, its once grand Regency and Victorian houses split into poorly maintained,

Urban regeneration is defined as improving an area that has been experiencing a period of decline due to a variety of reasons, such as lack of employment, lack of investment in the CBD, suburbanisation etc. Ways that this can be resolved include property led regeneration, prestige project developments and partnership development schemes. These have all been carried out in the UK recently due to urban decline in some areas, and some have been more successful in others, in terms of its effectiveness on the location, effectiveness on problems that existed beforehand and the effect on the local community. Most importantly, the

Green Spaces Make Kids Smarter is an article written by Olga Khazan. Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic and she focuses on health. She has written several articles but I found this article interesting. This article focuses on the cognitive abilities relating to the greenery around the school. She first looked into a school near Long Beach, CA, where around one fifth of the students had asthma. This school was in the city and about 500 trucks would pass every hour. Not much greenery was around the school. A study was released at the same time stating at least nine percent of childhood asthma cases were attributable to road traffic. The air around the school was twice the normal level of elemental carbon which is a marker of diesel particle.

The world has been evolving as quickly as the population has grown. As the years progressed, the habitual lifestyle has transformed from spread out house and land living to city and suburban occupation. Along with the living style, cities have progressed from just roads and buildings to multifunctional spaces with copious possibilities. Federation Square in the ‘heart of the city’ is an example of how a space in the city vastly contributes to the visual culture of Melbourne. Times Square in New York also displays how what was previously an intersection of roads, has been transformed into a visual landmark. Melbourne city had always lacked a functional public space ever since its birth.

Urban consolidation reduces the amount of green space within the inner area. By concentrating substantial amount of population into one area, it means most of the available land will need to be converted to housing units. For example, in a city like Sydney, where it has adopted urban consolidation clearly verified had the inner city areas have inadequate local open spaces. Sydney has 1.66 ha of open space per 1,000 people compared to the standard in the NSW planning act of 2.83 ha per 1,000. (Leichhardt Council, as cited in Searle, 2003) This evidently shows that there is an absence of open spaces. This is undesirable, both socially and environmentally. The lack of green space will force people to spend more time in their apartments. Stretton and Orchard (1994) illustrates a clear picture of people’s lives in blocks of apartments “…passively watching television most of the time because there is no garden or shed or games room, there are bans on

London boroughs are 32 of the 33 principal subdivisions of the administrative area of Greater London (the 33rd is the City of London) and are each governed by a London borough council. The London boroughs were all created at the same time as Greater London on 1 April 1965 by the London Government Act 1963 and are a type of local government district. Twelve were designated as Inner London boroughs and twenty as Outer London boroughs.

The Urban Age is the current age where we are living now as the majority of human population is living within an urban settlement or urban environment such as cities, towns and slums. With the rapid increase of urbanization, the demand for private and public spaces is growing. Private spaces falls under things such as houses, apartment and office spaces. Whilst while the public are things such as public municipal parks, public malls and community oval. The issue that is being shined upon in this essay within our current cities spaces is the ever growing privatization of public spaces. Bradley L Garret a journalist for the guardian wrote an article on how cities such as Los Angeles has become a victim of this and he emphasizes the fact that

I think the United States can also build biophilic cities and integrate more nature into urban design and urban planning. Building biophilic cities is of great important for cities, residents, and the nature. Unsustainable urban sprawl damages open space and disturbs the function of the nature. Biophilic cities help us solve many environmental problems, such as climate change, air pollution, and decreasing biodiversity. For example, if we integrate more nature into the urban fabric, there will be more trees, animals, and rivers in cities. The urban heat island effect can be relieved and more air pollutants can be absorbed by trees. Rivers can help solve increasing floods and droughts.

Space has a role in defining place in a variety of ways and the people or entities who inhabit that space. Within these spaces we can see changes by human beings and the natural world, for good or bad intentions which depends on perspective. Place can be shaped by a variety of factors: historic events, economic implications, physical changes to the landscape and cultural influences. Brixton is one of the most complex places within the Greater London area that has changed significantly over a period of a century. With a long standing history of changes by internal and external forces, Brixton looks very different from what longstanding denizens remember. As it has gone through economic, socio-cultural and ethnic change as an inner city area. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the changes and factors that make Brixton a complex place or landscape.

The space of Millennium Park is defined by rows of trees which outline the perimeter of the park on all four sides. The trees on the outline of the park create a buffer between the park and the busy city streets. Internally, the trees within the park serve as a dividing barrier for smaller spaces/attractions, allowing different spaces to communicate different functions and ideas. A majority of space within Millennium Park all rise above the human scale. The surrounding buildings and skyscrapers serve as a reminder of how little we are compared to the vast size of the city. Interesting, although humans are small relatively compared to the park. The surroundings reflect what we are capable of and the scale of what we can achieve. Territory

David Harvey’s piece on The Political Economy of Public Space explains the ‘kind of association or even identity that has been forged between the proper shaping of urban public space and the proper functioning of democratic governance’. He uses as an example the intriguing designs of Haussman’s boulevards and environments in Paris during the Second Empire. This public space sets a new stage of hope or Coalition and a ‘boundary between the public and the private spaces’. The design was to promote political agenda into the public collective nonetheless dictate and regulate how the spaces were used. I’d like to think of this boulevard as an instrument that reshapes an urban context constantly like when I walk through the streets of 125th street,

I believe that the city of London, Ontario should utilize compact growth and land use intensification to successfully incorporate the almost two hundred thousand people it expects to add to its population over the next fifty years. My confidence in the use of this city planning policy is on account of the fact that it increases the sustainability of the city, through encouraging the reuse of under-utilized lands instead of expanding the city into vacant outlying areas, which may be harboring delicate ecosystems that may be irreparably affected by human augmentation of the environment. Another aspect of compact growth that justifies my support is the fact that this scheme for urban growth will preserve more than 6 400 hectares of Canada's best

Urban Regeneration in the London Docklands The London Docklands Development Corporation is located along the River Thames Estuary 2.a) The London Docklands had to close for many reasons. The main reason was the Second World War. The area suffered substantial bomb damage in the Second World War, which lead to the need for a substantial rebuilding programme.

The wealthiest often would have the most space in the city, while the class directly below them would be cramped within the city yet separate from the wealthiest of them all. This cramped lifestyle was not very pleasing to majority of the population, yet many chose to live there because of necessity. The outsides of the city walls, known as the suburbia, housed the people that could not afford life inside the city. Despite poor dwellings in the suburban areas, people still praised and wrote about the pleasant suburban life, as they could escape the atrocious, cramped and uncomfortable city. The sprawling of the urban population became more apparent in London a few centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, where people now had money to build or buy houses outside the city limits. These areas were much cleaner and quieter than the main city, similar to the characteristics of cities in Rome. (Bruegmann)

The garden city movement, a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard, had a significant influence on urban planning. The theory of urban planning has envolved over the past hundred years, some have attempted to emulate theories from the garden city movement, while others have been revised based on Howard’s original ideas. The Garden City concept spawned many ideas of urban planning. Among these ideas, the Garden Suburb, Satellite City, the New Towns Movement and the New Urbanism are all significant theories in the history of urban planning and had their influence to this day. The integration of town and country, the separation of conflicting land uses and modes of travel, and the ideas of growth management are all elements of the Garden City concept that have made made their ways into plans of most major Western cities.