The two pieces I found most moving during the History class this semester were “Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones” and “An Inconvenient Truth” Both articles made reference to the radical adversity being faced by human, be it internationally through the constant threat of Global Warming, or be in nationally through the threat of discrimination due to ones race or social creed. In Naomi Klein's book, 'The Shock Doctrine' the chapter entitled "Disaster Apartheid" is the author’s interpretation of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe for the many flaws in the actions taken by the government in prevention, survival, and rehabilitation in New Orleans. She points out the lack of planning that allowed the effects of the hurricane to have impact of such magnitude while criticizing efforts made towards evacuation. Her writing argues the segregation of classes in New Orleans, allowing the middle and upper classes to drive to safety while the predominately black lower class was left helpless. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina show other mishandlings of the fragile situation by the government.
When he got more and more involved with the tribune during these times as a police reporter, Riis worked and wrote about the some of the most dangerous slums of the city. “The slum is the measure of civilization”, he said. Jacob Riis believes that the slums of a city is what defines it, and measures out the potential that the city had; the worst the slum, the worst the civilization. Through his own experiences in the poorhouses, and witnessing the conditions of the poor in the city slums, he decided to make a difference for them. Jacob Riis wanted to show the world that the United States had
Third, the proposed new bill to illegalize squatting serves as good example to demonstrate that Dutch future urbanism is likely to be an old, regressive restoration of the past. KEYWORDS: neoliberal urbanism, affordable housing, urban movements, right to the city, squatting, institutionalization, radicalization 1 INTRODUCTION After the great depression and the world wars, capitalist city development is in severe crisis, again. Although Mike Davis proclaimed a “Planet of Slums” – and one billion squatters – in 2006, the current global credit crisis is about to excel this stage. The crisis has reached the Western world affecting not only labor- but housing markets whilst leading to (re-)migration of cheap labor and forced evictions at big scale. Here, it is important to note that it was precisely the neoliberal working mode of the capitalist housing market to start the overall crisis.
They focused on a lack of happiness in the workers lives. A decrease in the health of the average industrial laborer is probably the most notable issue raised by the Industrial Revolution. Public health reformer, Edwin Chadwick (Doc 6), wrote that The annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation is greater than loss from &modern wars. Being a reformer, Chadwick may had been inclined to some degree to exaggerate, but because this excerpt was taken from a report it can be assumed that it is factual. If Chadwick did exaggerate and make the conditions sound even worse than they actually were, then his agenda was to persuade the government to change laws in order to improve health standards for factory workers and also to persuade workers to protest and become reformers.
Danny Gerges Professor Rhoda Stamell Eng 1010 September 16, 2009 Ghettos Vergara proposed three categories of cityscape or “Ghettos” that exist in the United States today. These cityscapes are green ghetto, institutional ghetto, and the new immigrant ghettos. The word “Ghetto” has more defined meaning then a group of Jews forced to live in Italy. Vergara has opened the eyes of America (wake-up call) to portray the harsh reality of urban cities. Starting with the green ghettos you will find an abandoned, undersized, and lack of responsibility.
Joan Lee Period 1, AP Us History 5 January 2010 Chapter 25 America Moves to the City 1865-1900 Through industrial revolutions, many Americans began to abandon their agrarian farm lives and grasp the life of the City. Not only were Americans following this trend, many Europeans begun to desert farming and search for fresh job opportunities in the cities. This instigated a prodigious increase of city dwellers and minimized the amount of farmers in the U.S. I. The Urban Frontier (pages 557-560) a.
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 is one of the biggest problems that may occur in an urban area. It is when the inner city becomes run down due to a lack of maintenance and economic activity. This is often accompanied by a decline in population and also an increase in unemployment. However, this process doesn’t come alone.
Aftermath of World War 1 unleashed the red scare. Nativism rose and led to the passing of many anti-immigration laws. The original Ku Klux Klan had died, but during this time period a new one had emerged. The movement to ban alcohol caused became a national policy and upset many Americans. The technological and cultural changes ushered in the modern world.
The attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center and Hurricane Katrina were major events the effected the United States. The American Red Cross came under heavy scrutinizing due to how they handled these events. Determine and discuss the ways in which ARC’s corporate governance failed to provide formalized responsibility to their stakeholders. Corporate governance is formal system of accountability, oversight, and control companies put in place to remove the opportunity for employees to make unethical decisions (Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Ferrell, 2011, p. 42). Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Ferrell go further and give the following definitions for each aspect of this system: Accountability refers to how closely workplace decisions are aligned with a firm’s stated strategic direction and its compliance
Living close to the factories was convenient but uncomfortable and unhygienic since a structured city had not been developed yet. As the time progresses, the leader of France, Napoleon III, decided to urbanize and modernize the city of Paris with the help of architect Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann. An end needed occur to the “chaos” that stemmed from the migration of middle class workers to these new industrial areas. Napoleon’s urban planning of Paris would open the doors to urbanize and modernize other areas of the world as well. In Emily Kirkman’s excerpt “Architecture in the Era of Napoleon III”, she describes the “chaos” that existed within Paris and the urban make over it received when Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann began their urban planning to transform Paris.