What is an urban area? Urban area is a very developed area in a region, meaning there are heavy densities of houses, buildings, bridges, roads and railways. These urban areas are expanding globally at a very quick rate due to rapid increase in population, better standard of living and numerous other factors. These people interact with one another and their environments creating urban ecology, however what is an urban ecology? Urban ecology is a study of relationships of living organisms with each other and their surroundings. In every urban area there is an urban ecology. Therefore, I shall be discussing the relationships of urban ecology to the urban area and city of New York City in the movie “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”. Why did I …show more content…
Central Park was very important in this movie because this is where the 2 crooks have planned out their next plan of robbery and this is where Kevin have met the lady who have helped him escape the crooks at the end of the film. Central Park is a significant area of New York City because the pace is slower there and you’re connected with nature, because there is plenty of wildlife and vast amounts of greenery. This is where people to come to relax and grasp a breath of “fresh air”, even though this park is surrounded by a huge urbanized city. Cars are barely allowed in the Central Park, there was barely any garbage on the floors and grassland in the park. This creates a contrast of the city as a whole, because you could witness the urbanization and environmental ecology being split and divided. Environmental ecology is important in this film because it captures the fact that there is a large green area that has been untouched by the urbanization in New York City. Also, as I have stated before – there were several scenes where Central Park created an atmosphere for certain situations to occur. At night time, when crooks took Kevin to the Central Park, there were no lights at all which created a sense that you’re at an actual forest. Which can get very dangerous for citizens, but nevertheless Central Park provides a balance between urbanization and environmental ecology in the
The urban world is about things that are going on within the cities, and the differ...
The solution to this was to create green spaces in the city environment so that nature was accessible by all. A couple examples of this would be Central park in New York and Stanley Park itself. Both Central and Stanley Park are large parks that are centered in a large city and are surrounded the concrete jungle of the city. The idea of the urban park was created during the 19th century and was under the premise that the city was a dirty and unhealthy environment to be in. While, the park showed a natural, clean, and healthy environment. The unhealthy environment of the city was due to the industrialization of the major cities, which were full of epidemic and constant violence . This would be much different from the natural feel of parks and “natural” landscape, as these areas would have little development and be “pristine”. Also, they would be more peaceful and lack the human epidemics of the city. Thus, the building of green spaces in the city was meant to calm and relax the citizens and provide a chance of pace to “cleanse” the mind and body of the weary citizens
An environmental concern is global warming. Due to all the carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in our atmosphere, it’s causing the earth to warm up. The rise in temperature is causing climate change in the park to change such as making glaciers to melt. Interestingly enough, if all of the ice caps were to melt, then half of the world’s cities would be flooded under water.
The lack of nature also helps create a suspenseful mood. In Irving’s story “Rip Van Winkle”, nature is everywhere. When talking about Rip Van Winkle Irving says, “It could not be for the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar’s lance, and fish all day without a murmur even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble” (Irving 31). The use of nature in this sentence gives the story a lighter mood. It flows with words that give the readers a sense of peace and it lets the readers enjoy the
No place in New York City quite captures the essence of the upside/downside process of the construction/destruction of environmentally important institutions as well as Manhattan Square, a seventeen-acre parkland bounded by Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, and by West 77th street and West 81st street. Known since 1958 as Roosevelt Park, Manhattan Square has become home to American Museum of Natural History since the land was ceded to that fledging institution by the Commissioner of Central Park in 1872. The museum’s first building opened to the public in December 1877. Manhattan Square was a result of an 1877 law mandating the laying out most of the island in streets and avenues – the familiar rectangular grid of roads north of Canal
In Kasson’s Amusing the Million, the forms of resistance were not race related, however, were geared more towards social class and cultural norms. The parks, Coney Island more specifically, created a lifestyle in society as well as a change in morals and attitudes. Kasson stated that, “a self conscious elite of critics, ministers, educators, and reformers, drawn principally from the Protestant middle class of the urban Northeast,” made up the genteel reformers. (Kasson, p.4) These genteel reformers believed that life should be constructive as well as Victorian virtues maintained. Parks in the beginning were a result of the Victorian virtues they were created to allow constructive leisure for the middle class. The closest thing to a park during this point was New York’s Central Park and Chicago’s Columbian Exposition. The park was created for the middle class industrial workers. (Kasson, p.11) Politicians in New York, against the design of genteel reformers,
Over the next 160 years Central Park has seen many transformations. An early decline in the 1900’’s followed by a revitalization by Robert Moses
... the urban and social context, looked closely at the surrounding world to help his designs. Olmsted’s plans grew “had as much to do with his energetic involvement in the intellectual, political and social discourse of the day” as they did with his “literary and artistic genius” (Howett, 109). This is a good summation of Olmsted’s approach and the urban design and social context approach as a whole. His work could be considered inspired and artistic but it was also practical. He looked at the problems of his time and sought to fix them through the use of planned landscape architecture. To Olmsted, parks were more than just beautiful scenery or a place to reveal in the wonders of nature. They were also a necessity to the inhabitants of large cities. Parks are beautiful reprieves from city blocks without an emphasis being placed on either of the descriptive epithets.
From the quaint café on the corner of First and Main that booms on Sunday mornings, to the community park and pond where families feed the ducks and children play in the midday sun, reminders of an urban area’s identity are scattered within its limits. This identity is composed of a certain level of community shared by the inhabitants of urban areas, and this sense of community develops over generations as people become personally intertwined with other people and structures contained within the fabric of their environment. This sense of community is the heartbeat of thriving urban centers and is what encourages people to take pride in their city — to take pride in their home. It is therefore alarming when one rounds the corner of Main to discover their favorite café has closed up shop, or the duck pond is gated because of contaminated water, or the historical home is deserted and falling apart. As building blocks of community like the café, pond, or the home are eliminated, the identity of urban environments is lost. Cities’ sense of being erodes and the vitality and joy of the area and its inhabitants decays.
Two of the works in particular which offered differing views on this relationship were “Entrance to the Woods” by Wendell Berry and “The Invented Landscape” by Frederick Turner. “Entrance to the Woods” is about a man who goes camping in the wilderness one weekend to take a needed vacation from his hectic urban lifestyle. On the trip, the narrator realizes his symbolic place in the woods, as well as the place that mankind has made in the world. He struggles with the negative effects that come from urbanization and the relentless progress of both mankind and nature. Berry’s genius lies in his use of diction to seamlessly use both the natural and activist personas, creating a stance and an image that leads the reader to his own thoughts, which have been manipulated by his perspective.
Again, this section will give a working definition of the “urban question’. To fully compare the political economy and ecological perspectives a description of the “urban question” allows the reader to better understand the divergent schools of thought. For Social Science scholars, from a variety of disciplines, the “urban question” asks how space and the urban or city are related (The City Reader, 2009). The perspective that guides the ecological and the social spatial-dialect schools of thought asks the “urban question” in separate distinct terminology. Respected scholars from the ecological mode of thinking, like Burgess, Wirth and others view society and space from the rationale that geographical scope determines society (The City Reader, 2009). The “urban question” that results from the ecological paradigm sees the relationship between the city (space) as influencing the behaviors of individuals or society in the city. On the other hand...
According to buzzle, urban region is a location where people are furnished with modern resources. On the other hand, suburban living has more space, less people and the area is proximately closer to greenery. In the urban areas, there is an estimate of about 3.9 billion people who lives in these
Well that’s simple. It was designed way back in the 1800, for the public. The land, over 750 acres, was given from the New York State Legislator, in 1853, to create the first major landscaped park, in central Manhattan. The state held a competition of what design the park was going to have. Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won the competition in 1858. The park held up well at first. People respected the land. During the early 1900’s, the park took a great downfall. Instead of it begin known for its beauty, it was known for the illegal activity that was going on. Eventually the state got together and realized they were failing on their duties. Robert Moses, the park commissioner from 1934-1960, got approved from federal funding’s, to restore most structures. Again, after he left office, the depression was also in place, the park went back down a dark path. The people lost care in the park. In 1974, park funders got management together to raise more money to restore the park once again. Latter down the road Doug Blonsley started working with a woman, named Betsey, in 1993- 2008. The park hasn’t seen any better days, than the days of today. All it took is a little care and the park is looking better than it ever have in the last 150
Sociologist … explained that open pattern of suburb is because of seeking environment free noise, dirt and overcrowding that are in the centre of cities. He gave examples of these cities as St. John’s wood, Richmond, Hampstead in London. Chestnut Hill and Germantown in Philadelphia. He added that suburban are only for the rich and high class. This plays into the hands of the critical perspectives that, “Cities are not so much the product of a quasi-natural “ecological” unfolding of social differentiation and succession, but of a dynamic of capital investment and disinvestment. City space is acted on primarily as a commodity that is bought and sold for profit, “(Little & McGivern, 2013, p.616).
Urban Planning is about places for people. It is about their creation, their function, their maintenance and their improvement .Cities and towns are the basic building blocks of modern society, operating as centers of commerce and trade, government and politics, and knowledge and culture. Well- planned, efficient cities provide healthy and attractive environment for people to live, work and play.