Concentric Zone City Model

A shock city is the urban place that represents a massive and rapid changes in social, economic, and cultural life (urbanization) due to many factors, including new models of transportation such as railroads, industrialization, and other factors. The first city that was considered the “shock city” was actually Manchester, England. It grew very quickly, and it was the world’s first industrialized city and the home of the cotton industry, cottonopolis - a metropolis centered on cotton trading. Same as Manchester, Chicago was also the “shock city” of North America because of its rapid growth. Both cities were industrial cities, Chicago rose from a struggling village sunk in the middle of a grassland creek to a metropolis city. Between 1830 to

Since urban planning’s origin, the definition of the profession’s specific role has been subject of an enduring theoretical debate. Academics like Charles Haar, Melvin Webber, David Lindblom and Paul Davidoff have exposed valuable approaches. Unfortunately, all may be challenged as they face diverse complications placed on real-world settings. Although the lack of consensus around planner’s role could be considered a negative feature for the discipline’s credibility and recognition, I consider that this absence is a valuable peculiarity that reveals one of its most powerful qualities: versatility. As I will discuss on the following paragraphs, Haar, Webber, Lindblom and Davidoff’s theories display planner’s ability to transform its identity

Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood or just Mr. Roger’s is a children’s television show that spanned for almost 40 years. The show helped young children deal with real life situations like divorce, fighting with friends, mad feelings, caring for the environment, and such (pbskids.org 2009). In the episode Mr. Roger’s Talks About Divorce/ A Boy in a Wheelchair, Mr. Roger’s explains to young children about electric cars and electric wheelchairs and also parent’s divorcing. He does this in a fun, positive, and respecting experience for young children. During the 30 minute episode, Mr. Roger’s asks questions to the viewers, give them time to respond, then answers the questions. When he does not know the answer to the question or how something works he

City Island is a movie about the Rizzo family from Bronx, New York and the complixities of their individual lives and how they merge together and are chaotically exposed. In this case analysis I will be using structural therapy to analyze the family’s dynamics and they areas they can improve.

“Fall of a City,” By Alden Nowlan and “Chief Joseph Surrenders,” A passage by Chief Joseph himself.

The ideal city requires lying in order to reach the ideal point of a city.

FAT is an acronym used to represent frustration anxiety and tension represented by The Fat City Workshop Part 1: Experiencing Frustration, Anxiety and Tension. Upon watching the video, I wondered why the instructor, Dr. Rick Lavoie was barking out questions and people looked uptight and timid. After further viewing of the video, I found that the mediator was asking professional individuals questions related to the book that the seminar was based on. The acronym FAT as I previously stated stands for frustration, anxiety and tension, which was the purpose of this seminar/workshop. The instructor was highlighting the kinds of situations some teachers put children in every day. Some educators do not take into account that students get embarrassed by their sarcasm, and other students who it is not directed at find it to be funny and move on.

The truth is what you see with your own eyes. In George Saunders’ “The New Mecca”, he narrates his travelling experience in Dubai, and Saunders changes his attitude towards Dubai completely from considering it may be “an idyllic mountain kingdom ruled by gentle goatherds” to acknowledging it as “may well be the greatest city on earth”. In this essay, I will argue that “In all things, we are the victims of The Misconception From Afar. There is the idea of a city, and the city itself, too great to be held in the mind. And it is in this gap (between the conceptual and the real) that aggression begins” is central to Saunders’ essay, because this quote points out the common situation that people often misjudge things and form stereotypes even before they actually learn about them, and this is the message that Saunders’ article conveys. This essay will develop how the quote is central to Saunders’ essay from two aspects, human can easily make wrong judgements on something they are unfamiliar with and misconceptions are the sources of aggression and conflicts.

As the world’s population continues to migrate and live in urban areas, planners, engineers, and politicians have an important role to ensure that they are livable and sustainable. But what defines an urban area and what makes it so attractive? In my opinion, urban areas are places that consist of a variety of land uses and buildings, where services and amenities are easily accessible to the general public, and includes an established multimodal transportation network. Also, it should be a place where people can play, learn, work, and grow in a safe and collaborative manner. Based on that definition, the novel, “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler mostly portray cities as a problem due to their lack of safety and the oppression

If you look skid row up in the dictionary, the definition is clear: a poor part of town or city where people who are homeless or who drink too much often go. The midnight mission first opens its door in 1914, this area has been plagued with the same issues for far too long. It’s amazing that these types of issues are ignored by the majority of society. The midnight mission has a wonderful program to give people that are on skid row a purpose again. Even the man that took it upon himself to clean up his neighborhood. I think the definition should be changed from alcohol to drugs. Most of the people telling their story in this documentary talk about being addicted to drugs. It’s hard not to feel bad that there are people that do not have a home or people

in spite of this, it was argued by Waddington 2004 that even though the police do stop a high number of black people compared to whites, he does state that there are more ethnic groups that live in inner cities and that the police simply target those high risk areas. This can be related the zonal hypothesis as inner cities are labelled as zone I and II that tend to have rates of delinquency at their highest.

In The Legacy, Basil Davidson discusses the legacies of colonialism in Africa and gives an insight on modern Africa and the successes and downfalls that it possesses. Moreover, he states that many of the issues seen in modern day Africa are not new and have their roots in the long years of European colonialism that profoundly shaped and continues to shape the continent. Throughout the documentary, various themes regarding postcolonial Africa are mentioned in depth. A few of the themes that Davidson highlights are modernization, ethnicism, corruption, inequality, dictatorship, and neocolonialism.

The US is commonly compared to the Roman Empire and the Roman state. If Machiavelli were alive to compare and contrast the two empires, I think that he would have much to say on the topic. Machiavelli asserts that there are two kinds of cities founded for two very different reasons (7). The first city prototype is an independent city that is founded and created in order to be run freely with autonomy. The second of the city types is the type that is founded for profit by another city. The United States and Rome could be neatly divided within these categories. The first type of city, which functions with autonomy, is Rome. The second type of city that was created to benefit the founding city would be the United States.

In order to raise awareness of the staggering injustices, oppression and mass poverty that plague many Indian informal settlements (referred to as slum), Katherine Boo’s novel, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, unveils stories of typical life in a Mumbai slum. There are discussions on topics surrounding gender relations, environmental issues, corruption, religion, and class hierarchies, as well as demonstrating India’s level of socioeconomic development. Encompassing this, the following paper will argue that Boo’s novel successfully depicts the mass social inequality within India. With Indian cities amongst the fastest growing economies in South East Asia, it is difficult to see evidence of this in the individual well-being of the vast majority of the nation. With high unemployment rates, the expansion of informal settlements and the neglect of basic human rights, one of India’s megacities, Mumbai, is a good representation of these social divisions.

The word urban stems from the Latin word “urbanus” meaning civil man and “urbs” meaning city (Online Oxford Dictionary). Urban cities have several key attributes that are preconditions to successfully sustaining its citizens: a critical population mass supported by a strong economy and labour markets; an urban mass and