Jim Stergios: A Comparative Analysis

Many constructions in liberal states are built by individual entrepreneurs, whose aim is to generate wealth and money. That results in higher levels of overall attractiveness of buildings and the usage of different and sometimes unusual materials for their construction. New York is a perfect example of a city, which was fully built under the

Robert Soderbery was an enterprising entrepreneur who managed the public works department of a private business in Pittsburg, California. Pittsburg was known to have undergone a serious of identities over the years. Initially, Pittsburg was known to be an industrial city encompassed mostly of farms. Pittsburg essentially became a commercial ghost town during the ‘50s and it took recreating the city and building new developments to progress as a city. However, to every positive, there’s a negative. Although Pittsburg was progressing as a city, they were still struggling due to the 1978 tax initiative—Proposition 13—which affected many of Pittsburg’s revenue.

The economic revitalization of New London, especially the Ft. Trumbull area, became a hot ticket item on the political agenda at both the local and state level. The City established the New London Development

In the capital of financial services, two insurance buildings dominate Boston’s skyline. The Hancock Tower and the Prudential Center are structures that display the uneven change and the urban development that has occurred in this city over the course 19th century. Located in back bay these edifices work with the directionalities of their adjacent streets and the cultural history of the structures that surround them. Boston’s foundation was composed in a manner that designated and organized space. This creates the tension and contrast present in that between the two structures. The iconography that these structures have over the city is important. It represents a sense of the past as well as the purpose that the built environment has

In Robert Bruegmann article “How Sprawl Got a Bad Name,” he is the odd man out and is for sprawling. One of his reasons throughout is that all the architectures plan for preventing the problem has failed. Bruegmann shows his argument that the economy has these set of expectations for today’s society. The citizens are not really thinking realistically when it comes to those modern expectations. He backs up his point by stating a big crisis of traffic in Los Angeles and how it is not the congestion it is that the programs sit in place are outdated. One of the more convincing reasons of why Bruegmann is supporting sprawl is “that growing numbers of people have discovered that it is the surest way to obtain the rich, satisfying

In today’s society the landscape of the city is constantly changing to accommodate for technological innovations, greater populations, and economic opportunity. As the skyline of cities across America are changing at a rate faster than ever seen before, one immense community is being left in the dust. The suburbs of America have refused to change, allowing a great resemblance of what they looked like 50 years ago. The stubbornness of the suburbs to change has led to many issues economically and environmentally. In her essay, “Seventy-Five Percent”, Ellen Dunham-Jones puts forth that 75% of construction in the past decade occurs in the suburban landscape. Yet, in today’s society much of the architectural community contains a strong bias against the suburbs. However, with over half the country’s

***New Technologies improve urban living and a modern mass culture emerges. Reforms in Public education raise literacy rates; African Americans work to end legal discrimination. Advances in science and technology help solve Urban problems, including overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and death***

Steen, Karen. "How Leftover Urban Spaces Can Fix Big Problems for San Francisco." SPUR. N.p., 23 Nov. 2013. Web. 15 Dec. 2016. .

As we fast forward to the early ‘70s, we see signs of large scale gains in funding and program scope for many of the Great Society’s initiatives. Funding for these programs grew rapidly in terms of nominal spending, but the seeds of failure were set through a long series of

The period between the Civil War and the Great Depression was the most rapid period of urbanization in the nation’s history. During the late 1800’s the population expanded about four times in urban areas. Young reformers believed poverty could be alleviated with proper policy, focused assistance, and better government regulation. The efforts of these reformers would later be termed “progressivism,” and this period would become known as the “Progressive Era”. Negative consequences came of urbanization.

Throughout this paper we’ll be assessing and dissecting the community of Paterson, New Jersey, located in Passaic County. Formerly referred to as an industrial powerhouse that opened many doors of opportunity to the community surrounding it. It added wealth, independence, and economic security to the surrounding areas. The Great Falls and the potential power they generated was the primary cause for this. Alexander Hamilton wanted to construct an industrial city around the Great Falls. He believed manufacturers will increase the power and division of labor throughout the community. These falls were the significant factor

What began as a simple fascination with current events and the civic duty to be knowledgeable evolved into an interest in architectural and urban infrastructure, economic forces as well as social movements that influence the political culture of a group of people and the wider world. A particular book that informed my views about consumerism and the creeping influence that it has on Canadian and American politics is Toronto Star Columnist Susan Delacourt’s Shopping for Votes, in which she describes how government policy has increasingly been marketed to citizens as though they are consumers. I saw similar parallels in the world of architecture, specifically in a domestic and suburban setting where marketing and profit seem to take precedent over quality architecture and public

Well known in cities at the time were the City Beautiful movement and the city practical, however, social issues were merely pushed to the side. Wirka (1996) explains that “both are undoubtedly important movements in the history of planning” (p. 57), however, she goes on

In the eighties the city experienced a twelve percent drop in population growth, and from the nineties until now, they have maintained an average of a two percent population increase each ten years” (www.cityofboston.gov, 2008) Its economy is greatly impacted by the universities and colleges in the city, it has over 100 universities and colleges in the Greater Boston area. Tourism is a huge part of its successful economy, “in 2004 tourists spent $7.9 billion and made the city one of the ten most popular tourist locations in the country.” (Boston: Economy. Thomson Gale (Thomson Corporation) 2006.)

It laid on a 50-acre plot of land with one thousand five hundred and two units on its completion. The Boston economy improved again in the 1970s. Big spenders and developers were making investments in Boston. Financial institutions promoted and supported investors who had plans for growth in the area. Boston health care sector was unmatched in the whole country.