Streets and street life in Shanghai Shanghai, as an international metropolis, the financial capital of China and a historical city with significant effects on Chinese modern history, has multiple city images which reflect upon its diverse street life and urban designing. In this almost all-inclusive city, we could find highly-planned boulevards and viaducts extending in all directions that link up all parts of the international city, which is a practical application of the political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott’s state-driven urban planning. Spontaneously, numerous shopping centers and urban central parks provide residents and visitors with reasons to be imposed to urban streets life, where we can find clues concerning the …show more content…
To better comprehend how state-driven regulation and Jacobs’s ideal street life ideology function in Shanghai, I am going two analyze the two modes from multi perspectives and explain how Jane Jacobs’s ideal street life predominates in Shanghai with the assistance of state-driven regulation. Examples of James Scott’s state-driven regulation of urban space can be found in the construction of the Century Avenue in the newly-developed Pudong New Area. At the year of 1990, Communist party leader unveiled the plan to accelerate the development of Pudong New Area. In less than 30 years, the urban landscape of Pudong New Area has been undergoing a revolutionary change. Compared with the shabby bungalows 30 years ago, nowadays, skyscrapers tower over Lujiazui residential district. Century Avenue, a straight and broad boulevard with tall buildings orderly distributed along it, which has a total length of 5.5 kilometers and connects Century Park to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, leaves a strong impression of regularity and …show more content…
She regarded the continuous usage of the sidewalk as an essential necessity for maintaining safety of urban street life. To create a safe public space and make a city street well used, there should first be an obvious and clear demarcation between public and private space (Jacobs,107). In Shanghai, there are many examples which accord to this description of the quality of city streets. The sign shown above which is fixed on the gate of a private residential area in Shanghai writes that “non-residents are not allowed to drive into this neighborhood”, clearly setting a boundary between the public sidewalk and the private living area. [picture here] With the clear demarcation, public and private spaces cannot “ooze” into each other (Jacobs, 107). The people’s life inside the neighborhood become safer with the isolation from the outside potential
He says it may serve people living in the neighborhoods best to stay, or to leave. Overall, Sanneh does not give an explicit answer to his question, instead opting to stay present all of the facts and allowing the reader to decide for
Within the community, they find strength, shaping their identities,
In No Way Out, Waverly Duck examines an urban neighborhood referred to as Bristol Hill, where the drug trade is prevalent among the residents. Duck challenges the popular misconception that these communities characterized by the drug trade, crime, and violence are tumultuous areas with no social order. Duck argues that the residents of this community have created an interaction order that is a complex social organization that allows for survival in such dangerous conditions. For seven years, Duck lived on Lyford Street in Bristol Hill, and his theory is built on his personal experiences and information gathered from residents in this community. Through residents’ personal narratives of their experiences and detailed observations, Duck validates his theory and shows how social order exists in these communities.
Alexie uses this setting to show how one’s environment and community can affect their behavior. Another source that backs up these claims is The Science of Adolescence Risk-Taking; according to the chapter the influence of Environment a person’s living condition has an effect on their attitude. The text states that people who are poverty stricken tend to have “negative attitudes such as: despondency, depression, anger, or aggression” (Institute of Medicine (US) and National Research Council (US) Committee on the Science of Adolescence). According to both Tama Leventhal and Deborah Gorman-Smith, livings in a more “affluent neighborhood” children are given more advantages which are associated with academic success. Leventhal states that “living in a poor neighborhood places adolescents in terms of a host of behavioral, social, and sexual risk behaviors.
Yet severe inequality remained the most visible feature of the urban landscape, and persistent labor strife raised a new question of the urban landscape, combating social inequality.” (“Give me Liberty” Pg.
Kids in the most disadvantaged neighborhood, with low family resources, bad schools, and neighborhoods characterized by violence are the ones who are being punished unfairly and are not given second chances. This is because of the discrimination and the bias of the criminal justice system against poor African-American communities, which represent a concentrated disadvantage in that case. Moreover it affirms the theory that the poor are more likely to get to prison because there is a bias in arrest such as the neighborhood social class that affects the presence of the police and their arrests. In that case 6th street is considered a neighborhood that represents communities that are disadvantaged, and therefore the presence of police is greater than necessary. Instead of having the resources from outside to ameliorate the conditions of the neighborhood and improve schools or academic institutions, the efforts and resources are being invested in the war against crimes, but without giving an alternative solution for their
Through this, we can see the dangers of being disconnected from others and its adverse effects on one's well-being. Both works show how being isolated from society can lead to monstrous behavior and undesirable transformations in the characters. Isolation is a feeling that people get whenever they are alone or cut off. It makes you, in a way, go crazy. After all, people are made to be together.
Neighborhood segregation can potentially impact the development of social networks, which in turn may influence employment opportunities and quality of health (Gee, Walsemann, & Brondolo, 2012; Brondolo et al., 2012; Amuedo-Dorantes & Mundra, 2007; Wagmiller,
Throughout the years, the way American life has changed in many ways. In the reading, “The Transformation of Everyday Life” Florida talks about how it would be if you told someone from today’s society and have them live in the 1950’s and if you put someone from the 1950’s in today’s society how things in life would be different. In the reading “The Transformation of Everyday Life” I agree with Richard Florida that there are three different class, the service class, creative class, and working class. The jobs that are included in the service class are jobs in the fields in personal care, clerical work, and food service.
As for the residents who did get out of New Orleans before the storm hit they had a higher chance of sticking together and knowing where they were going. This brings us to the next discussion; describe the different between families that evacuated New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit and those who did so afterward. In chapter four of “Community Lost” the authors bring to our attention the concept of lifeworld. A person’s lifeworld is a shared reality that is defined by community and social life (p. 96).
The poem Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway written by Lorna Dee Cervantes, and the movie Hidden Figures originally a book written by Margot Lee Shetterly both convey the theme of empowerment to hard-working, strong women who can be just as smart and diligent as a man without the actual help of one. Both Dee Cervantes’ poem and Shetterly’s movie/book voice the importance of being strong willed as a women and making a life for yourself regardless your situation. Two concepts I found in these pieces of literature that I would like to obtain personally is the topic: focus on what you can control, not what you can’t, and cultivate a strong support group to achieve your success. Focus on what you can control, not what you can’t. In the movie Hidden
In this passage from, "The Street", by Ann Petry, Lutie Johnson's relationship with her urban setting is expressed thoroughly. The author creates a vision of the surroundings and expresses Lutie's relationship with her urban setting through the use of selection of detail, personification,imagery and figurative language. Petry begins the passage utilizing the selection of detail. She stated, "It rattled the tops of garbage cans, sucked windows shades out through the top of the opened windows and set them flapping back against the windows"(Paragraph 1). She uses details to describe how forceful the wind that was blowing was and the strength of it.
The grid system does improve the efficiency of modern living. However, one may feel lost in the lack of character on the streets because every intersection shares a similar image; the uniform placement of the traffic light, the same width of the crossroad and the similar corner stores appear twice in the neighborhood. Yet there are moments in New York that breaks down the grid system and reveal the unique characters of the city like the anticipation of the Trevi fountain view.
The community has had an unforgettable impact on the development of cultural values, and so should not be delegated to a small area. A community is a collection of individuals who share similar cultural values and traditions and act upon those values in such a way that the collective good of all is influenced. By contrast, a neighborhood is an area that can be defined on a city map. It is a collection of individuals that live in geographic proximity and often depend upon the same resources. Of course, this disparity in definitions leads to the question of how both communities and neighborhoods go through the process of formation.
In each of these case studies she investigates several urban projects. For example, in the New York chapter, she analyzes three development projects of Battery Park and Yankee Stadium mostly by considering the contribution of these projects to affordable housing and provision of inclusive public space. She then concludes that New York is diverse, but its policy and planning has led to inequity and a lack of democracy. This problem city is contrasted in her book by framing Amsterdam,as a Utopia where where her criteria of a just city are all met. When reading these chapters it can be inferred that Fainstein believes if a city has a egalitarian political culture, adequate welfare for all, and inhabitants can live in harmony and tolerance that the city will be just and successful.