vitality in the city centre. This description speaks to Detroit’s dependence on the automotive industry as the whole city focused solely on its development rather than developing its urban core. This can also be seen by Detroit’s lack of greenspaces in the city-region (Appendix C). Greenspaces increase quality of life for urban dwellers and combined with a lively downtown area can incentivize them to stay in the
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2. LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter includes a detailed discussion of the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of rural to urban migration integrating these with the objectives of the study set out in briefer fashion in Chapter 1. Section 2.1 presents the theoretical literature review including the concept of internal migration, the nature of data on migration, conceptual issues in the measurement of internal migration, migration theories, gender dimension and social structure of India. Section
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Harumi Apartments, between tradition and modern living Maekawa was invited by the Japan Housing Corporation 1 to design the apartment block in 1956. The apartments were constructed in Harumi 2, a reclaimed area in Tokyo Bay which was developed by the Japanese Housing Corporation as a part of a systematic effort to solve Tokyo’s housing crisis. Along the time, Tokyo Bay has been the scenario of most of the revolutionary ideas, since the megastructures of the Metabolist group, until the new projects
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Analysis of the quality of service the consumer against the competitive advantage the ground transportation services Abstract : This journal entitled the development of transporationt and its impact on socio-economic life and its impact on urban development from year to year. The purpose of this thesis is to know the development of land transportation from year to year and how it impacts the socio-economic life of society and on growth as a city. The method used in this research journal is a historical
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Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur, the gap between supply and demand for water is expanding and is reaching worrying levels that in some parts of the periphery (peri-urban) areas is creating a threat to the local ecosystems, groundwater aquifers and human health. Globally, scientists are exploring ways to conserve water and reuse urban wastewater for various purposes like, irrigation and other ecosystem services. Generally, wastewater consist of liquid wastes produced by industrial and commercial
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3: Briely discuss the history of planning with particular reference to events in the united states of America The concept of planning cities is considered as an old urban civilization. Planning in the current sense, as the act of thoroughly applying the knowledge to some actions (Friedman, 1987) for the goal to reach beyond the urban form, is a more recent idea, however. While modern planning has its beginning in the enlightenment age, it was not steadily functional before the start of the twentieth
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With reference to either waste management in urban areas or transport management in urban areas, discuss the extent to which sustainability can be achieved. (40 MARKS) Transport management; PLAN: Speed bumps, traffic lights, round-a-bouts, speed limits, zebras crossings, speed cameras, speed awareness Increase the prevalence of pedestrian areas (MK train station)- achieved by increasing the use of PUBLIC transport, park ‘n ride (Oxford), charge people for using cars= congestion charge in
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With reference to examples, evaluate the success or otherwise of urban regeneration schemes in combating the causes and consequences of urban decline. (40 marks) Urban decline can be defined as the drastic decline of a city into infirmity and disrepair. It is usually characterised by increased unemployment, depopulation, deindustrialization, increased crime and political disenfranchisement. Not only does it cause these problems but also it can make the area look unattractive – consequently less
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them” mentality among the multiple, unique neighborhoods that make up the City of Cleveland. The issue is not that people do not want to live in urban areas, on the contrary, the World Health Organization has concluded that only 48% of the world’s population does not live in an urban landscape which is a increase of 18% since the 1960’s. Moreover, urban areas are expected to have a near 2% increase in overall world population in the next 5 years (W.H.O., pg. 1). So that means that not only will people
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The Virtues of Living in the Countryside Our society worships urban life. Government and developers have been constantly expanding cities to the countryside because of their conviction, which is “better city, better life”. People living in the country try their hardest to get a permanent urban residence certificate or simply leave for the big cities to find jobs. Wouldn’t any peasant gladly sign with the devil just to be in the city? Isn’t countryside a place to be disliked? Perhaps it sounds strange
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