Urban fantasy

Imagine being born in a place where people don't mix with one another and keep to their own kind. Imagine not being able to walk into a store because it is white owned. How would it feel if you were black, lived in a city that was run by a white government, where poverty, unemployment and lack of education were all problems of everyday life? If everyone were treated equally, then it would not be a problem. But for inner city African Americans that isn't the case. As humans, there is only so

“Food Desert” refers to an area in a rural or even urban region with little or no access to big grocery stores that provides affordable and fresh food for people to have a healthy diet. These areas are mostly composed of low-income households who are often Hispanics and African-Americans (Ploeg and Breneman et al). They are often “trapped” in a geographical location where only small convenient stores, which do not have sufficient supply of all common, fresh and healthy food, are available. Currently

Imagine yourself outside with thousands of people in midsummer, on the beach with your friends, dancing around, hitting beach balls in the air, and drinking your favorite drink. Then suddenly the concert starts, you hear the song Storm Warning start to play, and see the fog rise above the stage, and then Hunter Hayes starts rising from underneath the stage into the fog, and he starts to sing. Due to Hunter Hayes’s awards/nominations, charitable contributions, and impact/inspiration on his life proves

Urbanization of lands in China have had a prominent effect on the lives of its people, including the inhabitants of both the peripheral and central cities throughout the country. In Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China 's Great Urban Migration, Michelle Loyalka writes about the changes that a developing China brings onto the people of Gan Jia Zhai, a village that is relatively close to Xi’an, a much more developed and industrialized city. The struggles and triumphs of Gan Jia Zhai’s

City, however, some planners envision the reinvention of the city as a haven for artists, cultural producers, and hipsters. According to urbanist Richard Florida nurturing urban spaces, such as Midtown, with vibrant street life are key to spreading the success of the creative economy in Detroit.8 He argues that the key to urban revitalization is a city’s ability to attract

simpler way of living. A way of designing communities that at its essence captures the design traditions of years past while also avoiding some of the pitfalls of modern city development. A desire exists to avoid the prefabricated homes and endless urban sprawl of strip malls that have arisen all over the modern American landscape. Some see this as a return to classical traditions of city design that incorporates the rich architectural planning of traditional, small southern towns. For these people

Ia _ Experience During my year out I worked as an urban design intern in the London design centre of Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Partners) [DAH], a world-leading planning, design, management and supervision consultancy. DAH is a private partnership established in 1956 in Beirut. The firm’s first projects were in the industrial and power sector in the Middle East. By the end of the 1970s DAH had expanded its expertise with transportation, built environment, planning, agriculture and irrigation and

most recent five years our city economy has demonstrated its flexibility by withstanding the worldwide financial recession. About 2000 organisations were added to the city since 2007. Major urban restoration ventures over the City of Sydney are giving occupations and lodging. Green Square, Australia 's biggest urban redevelopment task, is only 3.5kms from the downtown area. The $8 billion redevelopment will give homes to 11,000 new inhabitants and 22,000 new labourers. Economic Development Strategy

Corporation, or the PCDC, was founded because of these threats to Chinatown and has constantly fought off development threats to Chinatown (Lechner). However, the developments that were constructed including the Vine Street Expressway and several urban renewal projects south of Chinatown have effectively stopped growth in those areas. Because of limited space and growing population further developments have been shot down rather quickly by residents including the Foxwood Casino and in 2004 the construction

in different respects: mainly this concern have related to the capacity of social orders to adjust to such development, and the likelihood that it may increase urban violence and insecurity. And on the other hand, this has related to concerns that growing political and social demands would inevitably follow the upsurge of masses in urban centres (xxx, xxx). The assumption is that political and social questions that accompany rapid urbanization could exceed the institutional capacity of a state and