Life Between Buildings – Jan Gehl

including that: activities like sports satisfy the need for a community, many people are often

Those activities were to volunteer and help watch some kids in a program. I learned lots of things in this program. One of the biggest things that I learned was to be patient. That is because without patience you will not help, but you will make things worse. A characteristic that I learned about myself while I was involved in the program was that I am very cooperative. I figured out that I am very good with communicating with little kids. This was very important for the program because if you didn’t have good communication skills, you would not be a good and helpful volunteer. I wanted to get involved in the program because I felt that it would be a good way to see how to help people. I also wanted to see the environment of helping people and what it takes to

Welcome to Genezon, a city of 650-thousand people located in northwest Italy. We have created a city that not only maximizes safety and provides almost endless amounts of resources, but also a city that keeps in mind the happiness of the everyday citizen. Public space provides a plethora of benefits if used correctly, however, in the increasingly digital society, precise utilization will be key to success. Now in 2138, we have not only developed Genezon to be an independent, safe, and technologically advanced metropolis but also a culture-, society- and person-orientated public space experience.

Activities that are not suitable for some residents. Base some activities around the residents. Have easier yet ideal avtivities such as reading or some sort of physical activities to keep them fit.

Identify behavioral changes that result from the presence of others. Why does the presence of others produce changes in our level of performance or awareness?

The main entrance to a building creates the first impression of the whole facility. This gives the end user an overall impression of the building and what it has to offer. Once that impression is made it is hard for it to be unmade. One must continually ask how the threshold will be addressed, how will the materials be used in order to create the necessary feeling that the building needs to present to its end users.

Schools will be encouraged to provide extra activities that promote the joy of physical fitness (i.e. football, soccer, swimming, jump rope,

Through my academic years of highschool I wasn't allowed to participant in many activities due, to the fact that I had family obligations to serve and it meant I had to work in my uncle's owned restaurant, everyday after school and return home in the later hours of the night to complete my assignments due tomorrow, and this prevented me to enjoy the the many activities my friends were involved in. Though, I had worked many countless hours in the restaurant, there had been times where I was able to escape from the my reality and participate in very short and unconstant activities, for instance intramural basketball, where teams were formed to compete in every so often, to compete in a basketball game, and also, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) where each individuals were tested for their personal knowledge of a topic relating to the business spectrum, and participants could compete in team events against other schools and their groups.

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

Green buildings could become one of the main factors to preserve our rapidly decaying environment. There is no easy way to define a green building, but a green building is essentially a structure that amplifies the positives and mitigates the negatives throughout the entire life cycle of the building (Kriss, 2014). There are many definitions for a green building, but all of them include the planning, designing, constructing, and operating of the building while taking into huge considerations of the energy use, water use, indoor air environment, materials used and the effect it has on the site the green building is being built on. The first green buildings dates back to as far as the 1970’s, when solar panels went from experiments to reality. Green buildings were not as popular as they are today due to their extremely high pricing. With technology rapidly growing, solar panels are becoming cheaper and cheaper, making the transition to creating green buildings more affordable. This is the primary reason for the increased growth of green buildings today. A modern company that is paving the way to the growth of green buildings named LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, focuses primarily on new and effective ideas for environmentally friendly buildings projects. With more than 60,000 commercial projects worldwide and 1.7 million square feet being certified every day, LEED is one of the leading groups for promoting green buildings. LEED has popularized the entire

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 mixture of buildings of different conditions are necessary to public life because it otherwise would be neither interesting nor fascinating. But the main reasons are because they ensure low rent yields, encouraging the growth of small enterprises. Large swatches of new construction would only prevent income since not many would afford it, and the demand for it would not be as large as it would need to be.

Rising to 20,000 square feet and with windows on all sides, the facilities atrium provides visitors scenic views of the lakes and wooded areas that surround the facility as seen in figure 1 (Kroll 2004).

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.

First of all, to start building a city an urban pattern has to be established, this will make the city look much more organized and well thought. A pattern can be chosen from a whole list of working patterns for a city. Establishing a grid is a common way of equally distributing the city. However, we want to keep in mind, that important buildings, such as businesses, and government buildings must be accessible to the public, but separated from the rest of the city. We have great examples of grids such as New York City, in New York, United States, or Mississauga City, in Toronto ,Canada. Although, when building from scratch it is not possible to leave aside what has already been built, a city indeed has to adapt to what is already existing, as well as to the new global economy, social and political trends, and new issues that arise in the new era, this also changes the structure and tradition of building and forming urban patterns. Using the existing patterns, combined with new ones, both patterns can collide and make new forms in city blocks. Results vary from city to city, but the essence is the same in all of them; old and new patterns coming together to create unplanned shapes, a new form of Urbanism, based on new and old patterns, aiming to satisfy the needs of the modern world. A great example is New York