Slab City

Alice. For example, we know that Alice put her aspirations to pursue an education in art on hold when she became a mother herself. Even when Alice was able to leave Jack, she had to rely on her mother as an aide. Had the story taken place in an urban city, it would have more than likely

The “City of God” was released in 2002 directed by Fernando Meirelles. The film is based in the slum of Rio de Janeiro 1950s and 1960s. It is a story of about how two boys growing up in the slum take two very different paths; the young boy “Rocket” becomes a photographer and “Lil Zie” becomes ruthless gang member. The director used many different technical features in this film with editing. There were many scenes that used flashbacks, flash forwarding and flash forward replay to build up and intensify

gentrification, especially Oakwood. Gentrification greatly affected Oakwood towards the end of the 20th century. Even though the neighborhood is essentially African American and Latino populated, it is still somewhat in inconsistency. According to Los Angeles City Beat, “In Venice, the transformation is ... obvious. Homes are fetching sometimes more than $1 million, and homies are being displaced every day.”(Romero) When wealthier whites started to move into the area, long-term residents started to perceive

San Francisco is a historic city on the coast of California. It is known throughout history for experiencing many earthquakes, as it sits next to the San Andreas fault which runs up and down the state. The city becomes the setting for Mark Twain’s narrative essay, The San Francisco Earthquake which recounts the events of an earthquake known as the “great” earthquake. In the ensuing disaster, Twain does not direct his focus on the destruction of the city as much as he does on the people’s reactions

Louv recalls that the middle of the last century saw a huge migration of Americans to suburban neighborhoods, areas that fall in between the categorizations for rural and urban. (2008). While the concept of suburbia implies less urbanicity than cities, today’s suburbs are vastly different from the

In Human Geography, we are studying industry. In order to understand how people build cities, we are now play SimCity. At first, when I open Simcity, I saw there was a woman she introduce herself to me, told me to build the road. Also there was a man appear, he introduce himself then show me the house and told me to grab the house and build up the beautiful house. When I finish build the first house the next thing she show me to go grab the Building supplies store and I go get it. After that she

More and more people are moving into cities and the world is swiftly urbanizing. Giving rise to our decisions to locate certain economic activities there, a post-office, a restaurant, a place of employment and so on. New activities generate, even new streets are added, increasing our path network. Life in a city is a mixture of opposites. People are constantly moving through the masses to get on a subway and being squashed into light rails and that becomes part of everyday existence that takes gradual

Gentrification has become a common phenomenon throughout many major cities in the United States and it is impacting millions. Gentrification can be dated back to the urban renewal and slum clearance, and post war reconstruction programs implemented during the 1950s and 1960s Schaffer and Smith 1986). Although the main idea of gentrification is to, from an economic standpoint, rebuild the city and redevelop its urban core, some people are in fact negatively impacted. There seems to be a trend on the

that characterizes the city space. As a place of chaos, the post-modern African city (in this case Johannesburg) presents a challenge when it comes to its representation. When writing the city space, authors emphasize the tensions presented by the constant juxtapositions. Often times this tension exists on every level and manifests itself within the lives of the characters inhabiting the city. Though there are no clear motivations, it seems to be this chaos—of both the city and his life—that drives

despite their differences, both show the relationship between people and nature. Lawns, in today’s society, are seen as an attempt to dominate and homogenize nature. Gardens, on the other hand, illustrate “the intimate relationship between people, cities and food, constantly reminding us of the complexities and poetry of growing food and eating (Lawns into Gardens).” Studies show