The processes of urban growth and decline refer to the increase and decrease of population within urban areas due to employment, accommodation and access to adequate transport. The aim of this research plan is to investigate how, through the process of Urban renewal, governments and groups such as SHFA, City of Sydney Council and the Federal Government have improved the quality of life for Pyrmont residents within the last century (approx). Pyrmont is an example of an area where groups and government have played an important part in urban renewal through providing employment, transport, accommodation and lifestyle options, which ? urban resident’s quality of life. Changing Urban Morphology: The changing urban of morphology, or shape and of
This attracts more residents triggering the increase of Sydney’s population. Centralized shopping and increased parking space also attract incoming residents. However, the development of lower density areas place strain on the cities infrastructure as the majority of the employment is centred closer to Sydney’s CBD, therefore easy transport to and from the area is essential. Future trends in Sydney’s outskirts include housing plots getting smaller in order to accommodate the city’s growing population as well as
MIDTERM EXAM 1) What is meant by the concept of multinucleated metropolitan regions and how is it different from urban development of the past? Explain the sociospatial approach to urban Sociology and the links with global capitalism, the real estate industry, government policies, pull factors, the social organization of settlement space and the importance of culture. Compare and contrast the views of Tonnies, Durkheim, Simmel, Wirth, Park, and Burgess on urban Sociology. Which theory do you think best explains views cities Sociologically and why? 2)The new urban Sociology has developed from an earlier theoretical work known as political economy.
As families became the focal point of post-WW II’s “leisure consumers,” their cars took them to recreation destinations, which had to provide services including, gas stations, restaurants, motels and amusement centers. Accordingly, Gettysburg changed because America changed. Although Weeks uses many of the same sources in both chapters, especially local newspapers, travel guides, government books and publications, many of Chapter 5’s sources were publications of how Gettysburg was marketed to the outside world. In Chapter 6, however, sources included personal letters and e-mails, relating expressing personal experiences and emotions. Apparently, “emotions” begin to play a greater role as “expert consumers” or Civil War buffs took center stage demanding the removal of “crass commercialization” and the restoration of the
We'll ask our really important question a little bit later. Let's think about our paper airplane science fair project for a little bit and ask ourselves... What is a paper airplane? What makes it fly? Are there different kinds of airplanes? Thoroughly research these and any other questions you can think.
They way one may feel about a space is influenced by the culture that one has learned about over time. There are many aspects of space. Maps, Nations and regions, spatial segregation, space in cities, public places, work space, houses and rooms, invisible space, and cyber space. All these things represent a certain type of space and can be interpreted differently depending on the culture an individual is from. Even the space between people and interactions can be perceived as appropriate or not.
For example, a usage of GPS for traveling purposes, a usage of money transferring system by aliens who currently work in the U.S. and send money to their families for living, a usage of online dating sources to find spouses, or usage of teleconferencing to cut down or minimize spending for business trips. Things like laptops, cell phones, flash drivers, and the Internet are the things that are necessary to have in order to be able to accomplish one’s job performance or school assignments. Moreover, the productivity of employee or student directly depends up on these technologies today. Additionally, utilization of the modern technology developments became pervasive for businesses in order to be able to sustain in current highly competitive landscape. Firstly, in the past 40 years the world’s two the most powerful countries, USA and Russia (USSR for that time) had to change their types of the economy.
That is when dependence begins. Secondly, the country’s development also gives rise to automobile dependence. As industrialization takes place, more factories and buildings are continously built. The key point here is that they vary in locations. While most big factories and workshop are in the suburb where there are plenty of space, headquarters and main offices situated in city centers.
“Urban density improves urban sustainability” High urban residential density in cities has positive as well as negative impacts and outcomes as far as economic, social and environmental sustainability is concerned. Urban residential density can be defined as a ratio of the sum of dwellings and buildings to the total areas of land in which these dwellings occupy and also include other regional land uses such as schools, parks, commercial centres, roads and railways (Cardew, cited in Landcom 2011). The World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) defines the term sustainability as the ability to develop ideas and practices which culminate into developments that achieve the needs of the present population without compromising the ability of future populations to achieve their own needs. This essay will evaluate the positive and negative economic, environmental and social sustainability aspects of high urban residential density so as to provide an understanding of how urban density improves urban sustainability. Economic, Environmental and SocialAdvantages of High Urban Residential Density Building construction costs of dwelling units can be economised to a great extent in high density areas (Churchman 1999).
Travels with Herodotus By: Ryszard Kapuscinski By studying cultural interaction and collision we can learn lessons that will broaden our knowledge of the world’s ever changing and diverse cauldron of life. In Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book, Travels with Herodotus, we not only are able to look into his journey as a reporter in the 20th century, but he also shares parts of The Histories, by Herodotus, written 2,500 years earlier in order to show that his duty as a reporter is much the same as Herodotus’. We cannot define ourselves until we have confronted others as comparison, because every other culture has something to teach us about ourselves. No matter where you go you should be ready to be humble and observe, learn, and embrace the culture around you in order to broaden your knowledge of the world and in turn it will change your view of yourself. Kapuscinski learns much about the world through his travels and he realizes that as you learn about the world it acts as a mirror so one can learn about one’s self.