Urban Development Paper

Gentrification never happened to my neighborhood growing up. Maybe it was because I lived in a working class poor neighborhood growing up. I now live in Lincoln Park and I cannot tell you if it has been gentrified, yet I never felt segregation until I started living in Chicago. It was not the fact that predominantly black people live on the south side and white people live on the north side. It was the fact that it seems you keep to yourself. When I take the red line, I have dealt with black men hitting on me, same goes for other men of other races. Yet when I take the green line to the University of Chicago, as I sit being the only white person in the train car, it is like they are scared of me. Maybe it is a product of gentrification, that

This paper will explore the history of Williamsburg and the impact that gentrification has had on the neighborhood. There will be a specific focus on examining how this gentrification

The NSW Government says Sydney is on the brink of its biggest-ever housing construction boom, which will see almost 200,000 homes built over the next five years. The houses built will be mainly apartments and townhouses. Planning Minister Rob Stokes believes the majority of these properties will be apartments and townhouses, and described the blueprint as a win in the "war against sprawl".

In Planet of Slums, Davis starts off by pointing out the fact that those living in cities accounts for more than half of the world population. He also mentions that perhaps for the first time in history the urban population of the earth will outnumber the rural. He goes on to describe this process with a somewhat negative statement titled “back to dickens” (Davis 11). How this new urban order comes with a price. There will be increasing inequality within and between cities of different sizes and economic specializations. The latest report of UN, “State of the World’s Cities 2008/2009 Harmonious Cities” support Davis claim that cities of different sizes and economic specialization will have increased inequality.

Urbanization issues are found in all nations regardless of them being first or third nations. It is a combination of factors of global, national, and local. Even the type of government is key to whether or not a developing country will succeed or fail. Also elite power, class structure and state policies are differences these countries often face.

With the advent of globalization and industrialization, urban migration and expansion of cities have become a global trend. South American nations are amongst being most rapid urbanized countries. As more people migrate to urban areas in search of better work opportunities, the cities here are growing in size and number (Ferguson & Navarrete, 2003). This problem is native to not just Latin American countries but is a major concern for most of the developing world. As estimated by the UN (United Nations, 2016), 3 billion people or about 40% of the world population would be living in substandard housing as a result of urban expansions and population growth. This is perceived to be a direct impact of rapid urbanization and excessive strain on

Three problems with the rapid growth of cities: increased poverty across the city, poor living conditions, and the birth of the political machine.

With most urban growth in the developing world concentrated in the squatter settlements, it can be contrasted to the masses of growth received and predicted in developed countries. Numerous factors draw people towards cities such as; better employment and educational opportunities, hospital and health care facilities and overall better living standards. With interconnected challenges constantly arising, many ambitious planning and development schemes are projected to the government. Many inhabitants lack belief in these authorities; hence Roosevelt devised a rule for unrestrained reform, which emphasised, “that undivided power helps to prevent the forces that benefit from the status quo from blocking change” (Glaeser E., 2011). Although often-forceful

In Planet of the Slums Mike Davis creates an expansive and more dynamic understanding of the term slum as well as the relationship they have with the concept of urbanization as well as the usage of religion and religiously affiliated organizations to act as a form of activism within the slums. Davis begins by noting that the ways in which the twenty-first century has created an irreversible change to the urban-rural migration patterns, causing the urban population has to rival the rural population in the future. Additionally, he notes forms of urban and peri-urban settlements that exist. These include megacities (between 8 million and 20 million) and hypercities (over 20 million) as well as what he terms “…neither urban nor rural but a blending

I propose Country Living Estates adopt the neighborhood model to begin the journey of transitioning to person-centered care. Neighborhoods should be established with permanently assigned staff to facilitate strong relationships and create a more home-like atmosphere. Snack nooks should be created to offer residents 24/7 access to foods of their choice giving more autonomy and choice. Finally, an afterschool program should be initiated connecting residents with the community to increase personal

With more than 385 million people living in south America, It has become the most urbanized area in our developing world. Urbanization is the shift from Rural to an urban society, which can be appealing to many who are looking for opportunities. A census was taken in the 2000s that showed that 80% or 3.8 million of the SOuth American population lived in the continents Big cities.There are some that deem this crazy, but, can we blame them? Cities offer a shorter distance to resources and good jobs, and in return can create higher prices and economies can flourish.

This evidence shows that urbanisation contributes a lot to the public transport system in Guangdong. There have built several different kinds of public transports that can connect to many other cities. People can use these public transports equally. By using these convenient transports, people can live a high-efficiency life because less time is spent on the way. That is to say, even those people far away from Guangdong can go to Guangdong quickly and access the resources in Guangdong more easily. So people can enjoy different kinds of resources equally because of convenient transport. Secondly, urbanisation brings more goods to citizens and people can improve their life quality by using these goods. According to Li & Yao (2009, p. 1995), electrical appliances are becoming popular because of urbanisation. For example, air conditional owner-ship is rapidly growing up in China. Some families even have more than two units. From this evidence, it can be showed that urbanisation brings more modernised goods such as air conditioners to citizens. Citizens can access these useful goods more easily and they are able to live a higher standard life by using these goods. They have the same opportunities to buy these goods to improve their life quality. This means the opportunities to improve the quality of life can become equal in the society. All in all, urbanisation builds an equitable

Mike Davis, in his “Planet of Slums” (New Left Review 2004)1, surely comes out swinging in his attempt to convince his readers that the IMF and the World Bank are managing the world into survivalist death camps known as the modern urban city, making some good arguments for sound judgements in the areas of political and/or business histories. Mike throws out all kinds of great big scary numbers, many of which seem to be quite a bit over exaggerated, for instance he predicted there would be “at least 550” cities in the world with populations of over a million by 2015, whereas in 2016 there were only 512 of them as reported by the United Nations in their “The World’s Cities in 2016” Data Book2. He got some of his data form the UN, who has backed off from the numbers Mike used in the years since 2004, but have some new predictions for those that may desire (They now predict there could be as many as 662 of them by 2030)2. But Mike also reported there were 400 of them when he wrote this article in 2004, whereas Mongabay reports there were but 336 of them in 20053. Many of the city population numbers also seem quite high, at least as compared with Google and Wikipedia. He even more paranoidly claims that in many cases the actual populations of these slums are massively undercounted, and that many times they were undercounted deliberately by the heads of state themselves.

This shows that Ghana 's port cities and smaller metropolitan areas have become more valuable and the two most important are now Accra, and Kumasi. The process of urbanization has been the definition since 1984, due to the fact that the previous year had one of the worst recorded droughts in history. Since then a major migration has occurred towards these urban areas. These areas had a relatively fair unemployment rate until recently, when 1.5 percentage points median, and in Kumasi, the fastest growing city in Ghana, ranking second in population behind Accra. (World Bank.)

The phenomenon of rapid urbanization in less developed countries and in the absence of extensive industrialization, led to the emergence of illegal settlements and shanty towns, discuss the relationship between urbanization, poverty and development; and use a case study to illustrate the effects of rapid urbanization in LDC’s.