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After reading The Sprawl Debate and the Principles of New Urbanism the topic that really stood out to me was mixed land uses and its increase in density. In the Sprawl Debate Article it explains how new urbanist communities are meant to be more than subdivisions. Its plans are to have an open organized row of services and workplace locations by only developing a broad mix of land. Now this idea can be viewed as either a Pro or Con. Sprawl Debate: Viewing the article the overall statement was…

Gentrification can be a positive cause or a negative cause. Sometimes it can be both. Gentrification has multiple outcomes like improvements with the devolvement for the communities, it also can create revenue for the city, and want more positive outcomes. Some may differ to these outcomes and might think this is bad for the communities and thinking more of the old tradition and not more of the money it can provide for others. Old houses built in the early 1900’s could use some new-modern look…

Tempe Land Use: Going to Plan? A city’s general plan is an important aspect when building a successful city. The city of Tempe, Arizona uses a general plan to help spread their vision. Tempe wishes to create a community of vital neighborhoods, visually attractive, transit sensitive, with resident participation in making crucial decisions about the future (United). Tempe’s general plan is then broken down into the elements of history, land use, design and development, economics, conservation,…

Jacklin Jones Urban Society Book Report Fall ‘15 Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City History is always changing and repeating itself. According to the Housing Act of 1954, it changed urban “redevelopment” into urban “renewal” and “conservation”. Therefore, this had shifted the focus to areas that is threatened by diseases and enlarged the constructions of the federal government to support beyond residential (Pattillo, 310). During several class discussions, we…

A Case of Gentrification The reduction of black housing in the inner city of New Orleans is in a staggering position for a city having, record-setting economic growth post Hurricane Katrina. The longtime historically African-American lower to middle class warded off territories of New Orleans’ inner city, whether it may be uptown, downtown or in between are increasingly being overrun by a younger, more affluent race of white upper and middle class investors, eager with thoughts of redevelopment…

Dilton Marsh – A Thriving Village in the Heart of West Wiltshire You might have heard about this place in the song 'The Dilton Marsh Experience', written by Ben Turner and Richard Chambers, or in the poem 'The Dilton Marsh Halt' written by John Betjemen. Despite being located near the local major towns of Frome, Trowbridge, Warminister, and Westbury, Dilton Marsh has kept its 'villagey' feel. It is home to about 2000 residents and has its own church, pub, fish & chip shop, post office,…

compared to the Cities on the Indus. Cities on the Indus was the most advanced compared to Mesopotamia, China, and Pyramids on the Nile. They had advanced grid systems, their own form of plumbing and, they thrived in trading. For example, they used grid systems for traveling, they used plumbing and sewage systems in their homes, and they traded goods such as cotton. One of the most remarkable achievements of the Indus Valley people was their sophisticated city planning. The cities of the…

represents America in a way nothing else in the USA does. Literally traveling down this ancient highway is like traveling back in time in the twentieth century ; literally all you see down this blue highway is family owned stores and rural towns or cities what you wouldn't get driving down the interstate. This road represents the 1920's…

OOL focussed in social participation in order to solve community problems, this assumption find support on the theory of “Public Space Appropriation”, if the citizens get involved in their community problems and start to get out in the streets and improve their public spaces the levels of crime, drug addiction and insecurity will decrease. A good example is the macro mural of Palmitas, Pachuca, Hidalgo on 2015. With the highest rate of violence on Hidalgo, Palmitas agree to host the project of…

day and night. Small towns are way better and safer than big towns. Small towns are quieter, have less crime and have clearer and prettier skies. Small towns are better than big cities because there is less noise. In big towns it is often hard to fall asleep because of the terrible noise outside. In the poem “Big City Noise” it states “People do not seem to hear the noise during the day. But at night, the noise makes it hard to sleep.”…