Revitalization In The United States

Prospect Park is a 585-acre park located In Brooklyn, a borough in New York City. This borough in particular was in great need for an open space for activities and relaxation, which is exactly what this park provided. Parks are a very important piece of land to a town because it gives people the opportunity to improve their physical health and parks also help strengthen communities because it gives people more opportunities to interact with one another. Public parks are especially very important to have in a big city like New York City because a park gives people a chance to get out of the hustle and bustle, and relax and unwind. The two creators of Prospect Park named Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Bowyer Vaux also designed and created a park in Manhattan called Central Park. Central park is eight hundred-forty acres of city-owned land and is a piece of land that was much needed in 1857 when it was officially opened. Vaux and Olmstead became two well-known architects by building Central Park that soon became a big success, but didn’t equally benefit both the rich and the poor. Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmstead worked in a partnership to build Prospect Park.

This paper explores the economic restructuring and revitalization of Detroit Michigan post World War II until today. The purpose of this research paper is to show the history of Detroit’s auto and manufacturing industry, in what ways it has changed in recent years, and how it has helped define the economy of Detroit and damaged it. This paper suggests that the deindustrialization of plants and industries and the depopulation of whites to the Suburbs have triggered the economic downfall of the Motor City. Some social issues such as race discrimination and segregation that might have led to the riots of 1943, and 1967, and the migration of African Americans to Northern States in search of employments will be discussed as well. In

To start off, redistricting happens every ten years in which members from the house of representatives and state legislator are redrawn. And in every state, there are some that loss or gain seats, and sometimes it just stays the same. The process for this is fairly long, most of which is done through the legislative process in which the state's legislature defts and passes bills which then the governor decides to vote on them. However, there are some people who disagree with the manner the government handles this situation, so some states have adopted the independent commissions to draw the final line. On another point, every state has its own timeline in which some states have the redistricting process ready and others are still in the middle

City area can no longer rest on its reputation as a diversified economy with a well-educated population. The region has fallen behind in growth and competitiveness compared to its peer cities and it needs concerted focus to improve.

Cate Thurston’s paper, “Bringing Back Broadway,” was a study of urban redevelopment in Los Angeles’ Broadway Corridor. Cate shared her research and analysis on why redevelopment was an important factor for various people, such as Ira Yellin, the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles, and Councilmember Jose Huizar. The reason why redevelopment was important for many people was because the city was changing and there was a need to drive tourists into the city. As more tourists visit Los Angeles, spending increases, thus, generating more prosperity and wealth. This paper also discussed why this particular neighborhood changed and why space changes over time in Los Angeles. Cate shared how the Broadway Corridor in the 19th and 20th

In conclusion, this article’s main focus is the redevelopment process in California as the nations urban-renewal efforts were taking hold, including California’s own version of it. As riots spread across the nation, planners sought to revive inner cities with massive public investments as modern housing complexes-while wiping away-dilapidated

amenities and luxuries) which eventually led the price to go up displacing the old residents and bringing in new ones. This certainly causes a problem, because pushing out the lower class people is definitely not the way to go when trying to recreate a community. A study done on the dog parks of Chicago by Nast, Heidi (2006) yielded similar results. Lincoln Park was a community that used to be run down and abandoned as of the mid 1900’s, but after the industrialization in the 1970’s it’s property value increased dramatically and pushed out the people that were previously living there. The contractors are not really doing the communities a favour by bringing in new, high-priced services. The people in these communities already have struggles that they’re facing like having to pay their bills, and have these few parks is beneficial for their leisure time, but instead they are forced to move out due to housing prices going up and ultimately end up moving to areas that don’t contain parks near them. In an article by Greenfield,

At the WPA Event on March 8th, Cate Thurston shared her research and analysis of the Los Angeles Broadway Corridor with historians, scholars, and Cal State L.A. students. Her paper discussed the redevelopment of the Broadway Corridor and other parts of Downtown Los Angeles and why redevelopment was an important factor for various people such as Ira Yellin, the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles, and Councilmember Jose Huizar. The reason why redevelopment was important for many was because the city was changing and there was a need to drive in tourists into the city. As more tourists visit Los Angeles spending increases, thus, generating money. This paper was also about why this particular neighborhood changed and why space changes

Central Park was the first landscaped public park in the United States. Advocates of creating the park – primarily wealthy merchants and landowners – admired the public grounds of London and Paris and urged that New York needed a comparable facility to establish its international reputation. A public park, they argued, would offer their own families an attractive setting for carriage rides and provide working-class New Yorkers with a healthy alternative to the saloon. After three years of debate over the park site and cost, in 1853 the state legislature authorized the City of New York to use the power of eminent domain to acquire more than 700 acres of land in the center of Manhattan.

What caused of Detroit’s descent from a wealthy, vital city into one where “ruins” are common and the city is bankrupt.

Open space can serve recreational areas for residents and helps to enhance the environmental and aesthetic quality of neighborhoods. As we know, there are a lot of studies showing that proximity to open space increases property values. It seems to cause long-time residents being priced out of their neighborhoods. Thus, open space is a double-edged sword. It could improve quality of life and impose the pressure of living on people.

My beautiful hometown of San Diego California has seen great development and revitalization in its downtown district in the past few decades. The city of San Diego now serves as the eighth largest city and the seventeenth largest metropolitan area in the United States of America. As a growing region, San Diego has revitalized and developed its Downtown into a dynamic business center, with vibrant night life scene, and some of the most desirable real estate in the nation. Through the creation of a development board, transit-oriented development, business incentives districts, mixed use developments, improved housing and night life, San Diego has been not only able to survive the recession but thrive

With the developments of urbanization, it might cause uneven distribution of population, reduction of biological diversity, traffic congestion, decrease of arable lands and other severe problems that individuals might suffer. Simply, urbanization is the process that a country which used to major in farming, now transforming to manufacture and social services with the industrial revolutions, technological advances and the social facility. The urbanization will cause the changes of the occupational transformation, industrial structure transformation and the rearrangements of the geographic distribution of the city or the whole country. The Fairmount Park is the biggest urban park in the United States. This kind of municipal park system can

In order to create less exposure of downtown professionals to the streets, redevelopments of places were done which ensure the gap between different classes. To establish the separation, new parking structures are built with high security monitoring, greenery and as well as entertainment places in some areas. Gentrification is especially seen in two major hubs such as the Reagan Building and Grand Central Square which demands additional security all-round the clock which says that the city wants to portray only the good side of and not the

“What is here for a resident?” was the most commonly asked question throughout the afternoon of exploration in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts. Unfortunately many urban planning and development endeavors will not always cater to the citizen, but the wealthy, whether that be upper class company workers, tourists, or the suburbs. This trend is noticeable throughout many cities but is especially apparent in Springfield. A city with a class pre-World War II design that has been on the decline as industrial work has left, nearby areas have held steady while the actual city core has been neglected. Recently though, some initiatives have been put in place to revive the Central Business Districts, and those efforts do not go unnoticed. Some of