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Benefits of Big Cities ​Urban living has proved to be quite beneficial for more than one reason. Apart from having the convenience of access, is the benefits of diversity and health. Large cities create many opportunities both for citizens and tourists as well. The fast pace and large infrastructures create excitement and job for all who pass. Personally, even I prefer to live in a large city. I feel that this eliminates boredom which is concurrent in rural areas. In this essay, I aim to prove

industrial revolution, the urban city has been the pinnacle of rapid development and robust growth. Despite the efforts of notable city planners such as Sir Ebenezer Howard, Peter Calthorpe and Andres Duany the potential of true sustainable development has not been realized by the majority of urban cities. The inevitable question asserts how cities can continue growth and development while corroborating the triple bottom line as a framework for virtually every city. The urban city by modern definition is

Life can differ from every city of the world and even the minimum differences such as weather, streets or population may guarantee people a new adventure. Through the years, humans have settle down their own lifestyle making it match with their hometown. Lifestyle is an important factor that defines the culture in every town, city or population. When people move from one city to another, they start discovering a new culture that changes their lifestyle. Morelia, a city in south of México, highly

Abstract: Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra, experienced unprecedented floods on 26th and 27th July 2005 bringing the entire city to standstill for two days. In span of 24 hours the Santa Cruz observatory at Mumbai airport recorded 944 mm of rain, which is highest recorded data for city in a day. The flood caused direct economic damages of about $2 billion and over 500 fatalities. The flood also caused several infrastructural damages, over 2,000 buildings were completely destroyed and 50,000

Pamela Blais’s book called Perverse Cities is based on the drawbacks of urban sprawl within a city. The book focuses on multiple cities within North American (Canada and USA) and discusses the factors that make the notion of sprawl the least sustainable and livable for several reasons. For example, the increased use of transit causes pollution and effects the influence on public health, affordability and its relation to subsidized planning services. “Urban sprawl – low-density subdivisions and business

For the host city to be determined it has to be appealing to tourist, sponsors and spectators. That is besides being a franchise city of the NFL (Depken & Wilson, 2003). The NFL, local governments and various associations of hotels and restaurants normally predict the economic impact that the hosting will have on the city (Depken & Wilson, 2003). This mainly takes into account the expenditure that the city is likely to incur while determining the real benefits that it will get. For instance the

TALES OF THE CITY While walking through a city, the pedestrian creates the city. Due to urbanisation people travel from one city to another and thus start exploring the new cities culture and traditions and thus this person becomes flaneur in the new city. Flaneur was a concept first mentioned by Charles Baudelaire in his writings. A flaneur is the casual wanderer observer and reporter of street life in the modern city. In the twentieth-century Walter Benjamin returned

In Cities of Knowledge, Margaret O’Mara argues that cities of high technological development were not spun into existence on accident but rather that they were areas that experienced pinpointed levels of powerful economic and scientific progression. O’Mara explains that it was planned Cold War defense research and development that stimulated the rise of these so called “cities of knowledge.” Specifically, national financing of Cold War research projects in key US cities led new waves of projects

Released in 2002, the movie “City of God” presents a number of key urban planning issues that a developing country might experience. The film seeks to illuminate several ideas related to the development of slums and the type of life associated with such areas, as well as urban crime and gangs. This film clearly illuminates the issues associated with government or public housing and the social networks that come up when people do not have a private space. The effects of limited living space are increased

Are our cities Smart? This documentary is abut the concept of “Smart City” a current issue but however unknown to many people. Audience: The documentary is adressed to everyone who are interested in this topic and wants to know more about it. Therefore it will not be a used a technical langugage What we want people to learn/Attitude The main goal of the documentary is to introduce what the Smart cities are, what benefits can provide us as a citizens, a berifly explanation about how they work