The Inner Harbor of Baltimore has been subject to decades of New Urbanism redevelopment and continues today and in many ways, the transition has been a successful one. Although this waterfront revitalization has resulted in large tax revenues and attracted throngs of tourists, it has offered little to a large number of residents who call Baltimore their home. As Margaret Crawford states in Everyday Urbanism “New Urbanism is scenographic and image driven in its production of familiarity.” While
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Death and Life of American Cities, urban activist Jane Jacobs argues that cities should be designed in a way that assimilates children on the streets. Jacobs writes that city streets should serve as an “unspecialized outdoor home base” where children can “form their notions of the world” (Jacobs 81). While Jacobs believes that an urban environment is suitable for raising children, cities prove to be an unsafe and unhealthy place to grow up. Children raised in an urban environment are not properly supervised
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Randwick City Council Community By Luke Harris – 09GG08 A Brief Outline of the Randwick City Council Community: The Location and Size of the Randwick City Council Community: The Randwick city community is large as it is comprised of a number of suburbs including: Clovelly, Chifley, Kingsford, Coogee, Kensington, Randwick, Little Bay, Matraville, Maroubra, Malabar, La Perouse-Phillip Bay and South Coogee (Randwick City Council, 2014, p.4). The community is located in the southeastern
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Geo challenge #2 What impact might a serious natural disaster, such as an earthquake, tsunami, or flood, have on an urban centre? Serious natural disasters can have many negative effects on urban centres. To start, the buildings are left in wreckage. Buildings that have poor structure are damaged and often collapse. Residential areas are at risk of being flooded, leaving potential ruin amongst homes and businesses. These impacts aren't it though, they're just immediate effects during the disaster
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Decades after sprawl infected American suburbia there has been a movement called new urbanism which thought to fight the effects of sprawl. Looking at sprawl we can use the Lowcountry as a case study. When taking Charleston and the outer lying towns into consideration, we see that their minimal public transportation and large highways that are often congested and problematic to the daily commuter. Unfortunately, this area, in my opinion, does have a smaller scale of sprawl. In order to do any daily
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WORX How to Use Stone in Landscaping Natural stone is an element that homeowners often overlook when making DIY landscape plans. The sublime qualities stone brings to the yard and garden come from its “naturalness.” Being a natural material, unlike concrete, stone looks like it belongs there and helps to anchor the entire look and feel of the landscape. Stone’s natural look is enhanced by the fact that it is highly durable and functional as a hardscape construction material. A few ways you can
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La leyenda de Bagger Vance y el empowerment. La película “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (EE.UU., 2000), llamada aquí en Latinoamérica Leyendas de Vida es un ejemplo claro de un proceso de coaching que no busca imponer ningún camino particular o determinada manera de pensar, sino pretende que el coachee adquiera consciencia de su propia vida y de la responsabilidad que tiene con ella. Vance nunca impone, ni siquiera cuando se presenta mientras Junuh juega en medio de la noche. Su labor siempre
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In examining Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” alongside Tim Burton’s filmic adaption of the story, titled “Sleepy Hollow,” a number of fascinating similarities and differences emerge. Though elements of the characters and settings of Burton’s film borrow heavily from Irving’s text, the overall structuring of the film is significantly different, and representations of various elements are crucially re-imagined. Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow” was released on November 19, 1999, a few
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Creativity Essay Woodrow Prudhomme Excelsior College What is Creativity? What is creativity? Webster's dictionary defines creativity as the quality of being creative. According to Sir Ken Robinson, creativity begins with imagination. He states that “imagination is the ability to step outside of your current state, to bring to life what is unprecedented to our senses.” I do believe that creativity does in fact deal with the imagination. I myself, I have
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and to the screens through the characters. In the movie, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, a short story created by Washington Irving then recreated into a movie directed by Tim Burton. Burton takes the viewer on a confusing and mysterious expedition through his use of setting, word choice and story line. Sleepy Hollow is a place where the residents are cautious and the ghosts are fearless. The people of Sleepy Hollow believe in the legend of the Headless Horsemen whose mission is to follow his controller’s
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