City planning

Question 1: In the first half of the 20th century urban planning was greatly influenced by the visionary and utopian ideas coming out of the City Beautiful movement. The City Beautiful movement played a major role in forming the backbone of city planning practices and concepts employed today and the foreseeable future. The term “City Beautiful” was first coined by artists in New York, referring to the urban environment they were surrounded with. One of the first ones to use the term was an artist

Types, Availability, Condition and Cost According Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (2014), the housing stock in Community District 17 was built between the 1950’s and mid 2000’s. Land use in as specified by the New York City Department of City Planning Community (2014) district profile highlights that 44.7% of the housing stock is made up of 1-2 family residents. Multifamily residents account for 24.2%,

Economic development planning has increasingly become vital to the health of local economies in the globalized economy. Local officials are tasked with balancing present-day issues surrounding local economies, as well as attempting to project where the local, state, regional, national and world economies may be headed and what industries will see growth or decline. Economic development planners, must also be aware of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the city or state they represent

Tamarack City Planning Guide The economics of a city should not rely solely on one industry, tying its fate to the successes and failures of that industry. The City of Tamarack hopes to strike a financial, structural, and cultural balance between our current partnerships with the mining industry and our future endeavors in tourism. As Representatives of the City of Tamarack, we have outlined below our goals in the negotiation process and the strategy behind achieving them. Who do we represent

Throughout the past 60 years, Hong Kong’s city planning were tightly dependent on the growth of public housing complexes, and vice versa. Years after the first public housing estate, Shek Kip Mei estate was built, the government has studied and discovered that core districts, Kowloon and the northern part of Hong Kong Island, have been rapidly populated that they are reaching their maximum capacity due to the wave of baby boom and illegal immigrants from Mainland China who escape to Hong Kong for

mainly the Sanborn maps and the Los Angeles Times helped me a lot. Though I must say that I used other sources like the Los Angeles Department of City Planning’s OHR’s “How-to” Guide to conducting Historical Research, the Sanborn maps gave more the much-needed information on the historical development of the site (Los Angeles Department of City Planning p1). Furthermore, by using the maps and other resources I gained a lot of experience, especially the difficulties that I experienced in my search

Alexei Gutnov thought that a city was an organic community whose function was to calculate the immediate needs of the future. He believed that a city was a tangle of contradictions but planning couldn’t predict the future however, the current planning environment we live in could accurately predict its development. Alexei Gutnov was the author of an Ideal Communist City a book written to examine the past errors and current errors of planning taken place in capitalistic societies whilst giving advice

As part of our final report we are expected to select a planning issue within the City of Boston and undertake an analysis of the issue from a planning perspective. An issue that the City of Boston is dealing with that caught my attention was the lack of affordable housing available to its current and future residents. As cities start to evolve and attract large amounts of people, they also face some drawbacks that can affect where and how city residents can live. Our trip to Boston, Massachusetts

Rationality, a vague term that is heavily used in classic economic theory as well as planning theory, represents a ‘virtue’ that maximize the utility. There are basically two types of rationality, one is pure rationality, the other one is pragmatic rationality. The pure rationality, often called objective rationality, however, is an unreachable, ideal status that requires perfect knowledge.(Brooks 2002) The pragmatic rationality, which as its name implies, leans more toward daily use. To achieve

1.1 Database Planning This project bases the database planning process on the needs of a beverage company. The company is known to manufacture, market, and distribute soft drink products internationally. Analysts prepare budget forecasts and compare performance to budget forecasts on a monthly basis. The measures that analysts track are profit, loss and inventory from the financial database. The company uses huge spreadsheet packages to prepare budget data and perform variance reporting. Because