Today & Stoeljte Fletcher‚ Melissa "Cohousing feeds the need for interaction: An idea that is taking hold all over the nation is gaining popularity in Wisconsin" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Cohousing addresses the need for change away from the disconnected communities of our present day world. It is a fairly new phenomenon involving a very small percentage of the U.S population‚ though not for everyone‚ it can provide some workable solutions for some dissatisfied Americans. As more people become
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the city to work. The world goes from patriarchal to matriarchal society The whole family including the children off to work (innocence lost). This all happens in the north Urban areas grow up and things are moving fast hence expansionism of urbanism. Social Deprivation theory- Religion becomes a crutch because they just can’t’ deal with life. Need something to believe in because of traumas in life (void to feel). Marketing->Religion=all American‚ seen nowhere else in the world. The leader
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Regeneration Dilemmas The King-Spadina area is located at King Street West and Spadina Avenue‚ to the west of Toronto’s downtown core. This area is roughly bounded by Bathurst on the west and Simcoe to the east‚ and runs south of Queen Street West to Front Street (Figure 1). Historically‚ the King-Spadina area was known as an industrial manufacturing district. During the 19th century‚ this area served a manufacturing role for heavy industry in Toronto‚ however‚ manufacturing activities declined
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The “cult of the machine‚” infatuated The Soviet Union during the 1920s. Super-urbanism and the corresponding belief that proletariat society could only exist within a culture of the machine and the factory effected policy greatly starting in the late 1920s.35 The Soviet Union believed that machines and modernization led the way to new civilization. “City planning and the design of future living space requires a mentality and an imagination of closely resembling the concoction of science fiction
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Paul Davidoff (1965)‚ defined city planning as a policy-making method and presented “advocacy and pluralism” in planning which not only focus on the process of planning‚ but on the desired outcomes including social goals such as equity. He considered the prospect of planning as “a practice which openly invites political and social values to be examined and debated” (p. 331). Hence‚ he rejected the exclusively expert role of planners in the rational planning approach as he believed that solutions
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Facts‚ Key Chapter Themes Textbook Chapter 1 • Urbanization Trends pp. 6-9 • Concepts and Definitions o Urbanization- movement from rural places to cities and the change in lifestyle that results from that movement o Urbanism- all aspects of human experience (political‚ economic‚ social) are effected by urbanization o Urban Place- the economy or workforce is not tied to agriculture. -higher population density o City- A political designation
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URBAN DESIGN AND CONSERVATION 1. Urban Design The term “urban design” may have been coined in the mid-1950s but 20 years later it was still largely unused outside a small circle of people concerned with the four-dimensional development of precincts of cities. It has a wide‚ almost boundary-less definition with different connotations depending on professional discipline or the particular context within which the urban environment is being assessed. It is the process of making or shaping physical
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A PAPER ON IDEAL CITIES BY IBANGA‚ ANDIKAN NDABUK (119051018) M.E.D2 (EXECUTIVE) DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS‚ AKOKA‚ NIGERIA ADVANCED URBAN DESIGN (ARC 806) JUNE 2013 CONCEPT In design the Ideal city refers to a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with the dictates of some "rational" or "moral" objective The "ideal" nature of such a city may encompass the moral‚ spiritual and juridical qualities of citizenship as well as
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Throughout Africa societies that had been predominantly rural for most of their history were experiencing a rapid and profound reorientation of their social and economic lives toward cities and urbanism. As ever greater numbers of people moved to a small number of rapidly expanding cities (or‚ as was often the case‚ a single main city)‚ the fabric of life in both urban and rural areas changed in massive‚ often unforeseen ways. With the largest and one of the most rapidly growing cities in sub-Saharan
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Cited: in Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin (1975). Detroit: I Do Mind Dying. A Study in Urban Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 46 Roy‚ “Postcolonial Urbanism‚” p. 330.
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