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evokes the idea that this metropolitan city of Los Angeles is a haven town and should be recognized as a very beautiful city. Cars are a very important way of life here in the modern era, especially in a huge city such as this, and providing the audience with dynamic colors and a pristine and relatable setting really does set the bar for what and how the city of Los Angeles is defined. Though a big indicator of the car culture that exists in the big metropolitan city of Los Angeles in the mural…

principle, and abandoned practicality. In order to form utopian cities, the planners of urban areas like Brasília and Delhi proposed detailed urban plans that have mostly ignored market factors in favor of heightened urban regulations. In the case of Brasília, these regulations, designed to further the city’s utopian conception, have actually had the opposite effect. Brasília’s regulations have drawn population centers away from the center city toward outlying areas. (Bertaud 8). Furthermore, in…

Riverside, CA—General Plan Analysis and 30-Year Strategy Context Riverside City is located in Southern California. It was founded during the mission days under Spanish rule in the early 1800s, when ranchos (land grands) were offered to citizens of high standing. The downtown design was a grid iron pattern borrowed from the design of downtown Philadelphia . The city benefitted from the “second gold rush” of California; navel oranges were a cash crop in the area. The citrus industry assisted in…

inferno. When the Great Fire finally was extinguished on September 6, more than four-fifths of London was destroyed. Miraculously, only 16 people were known to have died. The Great Fire of London was a disaster waiting to happen. London of 1666 was a city of medieval houses made mostly of oak timber. Some of the poorer houses had walls covered with tar, which kept out the rain but made the structures more vulnerable to fire. Streets were narrow, houses were crowded together, and the firefighting…

By the 1990’s apartment or loft living within Sydney had begun to influence a global, economic, cultural and political shift in the processes of large-scale property development. This shift created a new, but also exclusionary way to live within the city (Shaw, 2006). Like Sydney, many other countries across the globe were experiencing a similar shift in thinking. In New York, the recent real-estate boom has lead to a shift in the housing price and living costs in the area with rising rents, and…

prominent and influential global city. Therefore, Toronto is constantly changing to best adapt to both domestic and international trends. In recent years, there has been a boom in condominium development in the city of Toronto with, “sales increasing by 21.2% in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the first quarter of the previous year” (Vital signs, 2016). With the increasing number of condominium development in the city of Toronto, significant changes in city planning and population…

As the 19th century drew to a close, numerous English cities, one being London, England, transformed from being a rural society to an urban society. The rapid development of cities served as both a rising and uniting factor in advanced economic, political and social life. In modern times, urbanization is rapidly growing, thus creating megacities like Wuhan, China with a population of nine million inhabitants. The shift from agrarian based societies to metropolitan based societies has and is…

bringing back the Ranger pride. Schools, the city, the entrepreneurs, the citizens, the workers must all get involved in projects to revive the Iron Range. The four forms of capital are vital in revival of the Iron Range economy. Human capital must be used; education and knowledge is important in innovation and creating new businesses. Social capital is important in terms of knowledge in networks. Everyone needs to work together. Structural and institutional capital is important; it involves…

transport system based on buses that is one of the many initiatives adopted to improve the quality of life in the city. There has been a rapid economic and demographic growth in the last few decades which has transformed the city into an important industrial and commercial center and a center for transporting and processing agricultural goods. It is one of the fastest growing cities of Brazil. Curitiba’s public transport system has developed over the span of 20 years. During the peak of…

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The…