On the Waterfront

vCoal Harbour – Demographics There are many different factors to consider when you are looking to purchase a home. Some of these factors include the general layout of the neighbourhood, the services and amenities that are available in or around that specific location as well as other deciding factors such as commuting distance, access to public transit or availability of green space. Whatever the determining factors are for you, a quick way to understand any potential neighbourhood is by looking…

“When Life Asks for Everything” In this editorial, David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, provides us with the insight for two models of human development. The first being what Aristotle called, “ The Four Kinds of Happiness”. This theory simply states that our happiness comes from specific interactions with people and material goods. For example, material pleasure including having nice clothes or a fancy car will ultimately yield far less happiness than helping someone obtain…

Task-The main issues revolving around the redevelopment of the Barangaroo Over-view: Barangaroo is an ongoing urban renewal project on a former container wharf on the western harbour foreshore of the Sydney CBD. It is 22 hectares in size and will cost roughly $6 billion in order to recreate and redefine the entirety of the western edge of Sydney’s Harbour. It will provide over 11 hectares that will be able to be accessed by the public and community. This site will also provide over 24,000…

Dumpling Mama is a Boston Waterfront based restaurant business. We are planning on expanding from one food truck to ten (10) in order to reach our numerous customers who find it difficult to get to us. Also, we plan on using these avenues to sell our signature Asian-New England fusion menus; basically lunch meals of different categories for clients on the go. The aim of setting up Dumpling Mama expansion plan of ten food trucks is to also take our signature dumpling menus to wherever we can find…

ourselves. It would be a great bonding experience for the 32 of us, and we’d grow closer as a class and Cornerstone family. So, why not Key West? Many resorts dot the tropical island of Key West. One in specific, The Marker Waterfront Resort. Poised on the pristine waterfront of Key West's historic seaport, The Marker is more than a gleaming new addition to the Florida islands (http://www.themarkerkeywest.com/). While staying at the resort, there are various activities to do. It could provide…

1) Te Papa Te Papa is New Zealand’s national museum, it is situated on wellingtons stunning waterfront and is easily accessible due to taxi stands being right out the front. It also has an onsite pay and display carpark available for visitors. It is also a great conference and events location, it has 20 conference rooms available the smallest room being able to hold 8 people and the largest holding 500 plus people dependent on room layout. They can cater for all styled layouts like Banquet,…

edge of the park is a park and view, where the parking lot on the eastern part of the park is south of the CWF. Pedestrians, cyclists, dog walkers and joggers have options to get access to the park trails either from downtown, along the existing waterfront…

Main designer: Ian Athfield (Figure 3) Wellington Civic Square was designed in based on a brief of a new development of civic centre. It involved three Wellington architectural firms to work on a concept plan. Ian Athfield was the dominant force during the development stage. He later on became directly involved in the Civic Square design (Niven 32-33). Sir Ian Athfield was an architect born in Christchurch, 15th July 1940 and passed away on 16th January 2015 at the age of 75. When Athfield was a…

based on my daily life. Liverpool is a city with stunning views. I am impressed with the waterfront and especially obsessed with watching the sunset in Albert Dock, which is believed to be the model existence of the art docking system. I was born in Wuhan, a big city sitting alongside Yangzi River. Though a sea has a lot of differences compared to the river, like being more abroad and more changeable, the waterfront does build an emotional attachment to…

Arthur Miller wrote a play in the early 1950s titled The Hook, a story about the Brooklyn waterfront. Asked to change the Brooklyn gangsters to Communists to make it more “American” by the FBI, Arthur Miller refused to do so. After this noncompliance to the FBI, he was accused of being a Communist himself. There were not any Communists in the Brooklyn waterfront, just like there was no witches in Salem. This incident can be easily be correlated to John Proctor’s refusal to…