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The idea of open spaces has been a theme of incredible dialog in spatial and additionally in social disciplines, looking at how places are effective in accomplishing a lively urban condition. Open spaces add to the general social and mental prosperity. Generally, they are inclusive spaces that all individuals are allowed to use without assent or avocation. The constant direct contribution of individuals in urban space is basic since individuals' esteems and dispositions in their social orders change after some time. This connection amongst individuals and space sets the personality and picture of the city, which can be lost if the relationship is defiled. Open spaces thus go about as social outlets that upgrade the general prosperity
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The fulfillment level with the urban condition is one of the indicator of personal satisfaction. One of the urban condition's components is open space. Along these lines, the fulfillment level with open space can be a indicator of fulfillment with the urban condition and next can influence individuals' personal satisfaction. Open space, both as a physical structure and a place for some sorts of exercises has a critical advantage to personal satisfaction, particularly in satisfying individuals needs to wellbeing, diversion and a decent quality urban condition. Trees and garden as one of open space highlights may give unwinding and rebuilding impact, just by observing it (Ulrich, 1979). As a place for some sorts of exercises, open space gives a few favorable circumstances for personal satisfaction, for example, mental and physical wellbeing, entertainment's advantages and the satisfaction of the requirement for a wonderful urban condition (Maller,2009; Kaplan,1989). However, a great recognition to open space can offer good quality of …show more content…
This socio-spatial appropriation in this manner makes isolate characters in light of their social levels inside the bigger group. This decline happening at all levels inside Cairo's waterway sides, private groups, open gardens, and even open squares, is the consequence of a social isolation which influences the creation of fruitful places in the city. The significance of good outline to join political, monetary and social importance while welcoming and empowering a characteristic creation of social space is frequently disregarded and overwhelmed by the requests of specific gatherings of society responsible for the basic leadership process. This expanding social disloyalty is additionally reflected in the privatization of waterfronts. As along the Nile river it is occupied by private organizations, high class restaurant, clubs but no space for general public is present. (Attia,
The development of cities is essential in the development of a civilization. Egypt’s cities began close to the Nile River. The Nile ran directly through the land and was the main attraction to settlers. It flooded every year, and in doing so, it fertilized the ground and allowed the growth
She also introducing new urban building standards. This this article she talks about, the idea some people have of tearing it down and rebuilding. She also talks about ideas people have about some parts of towns. In Boston, she talks about the area of North End, and the change that it was over gone. During her second visit to this area, she discovered that it had changed. She talked to other about it, although the statistic were higher than the city, the people still saw it as a slum. They felt that they needed to tear it down in order to build something better. This leads to the conclusion that the urban planners to do understand that the people of the city need. They have ideas that were developed years ago that they are still using. These ideas do not take account what the people want. The author also introducing new ideas of a perfect city to live in and what it would look like. The idea of a garden city was introduced. This city would be built around a park. Although the new ideas sounded great they could not be put into place today. The idea of a Garden City is something that sounds nice, but it is not possible in society today. Today a city should reflect economic status, and in order to achieve this the city should be big, and convey an image of power. A city that has aspects of nature in it would not convey that image. That upkeep of a city of that kind would also be difficult. The do understand the author's point of view. The planners often times do not take into account the desires of the people. The town that I grow up in want to become more urbanized. In order to do this, they are building a large shopping center. This shopping center is located in the canyon rim. This canyon rim has been important the people for many years. We come to the area to walk, what bass jumpers, and enjoy the scenic views. This new shopping center took away this area. Many of the people
Cairo is what is considered a mega city, it is the largest city in the Middle East and Africa, and as such it is plagued by most of the problems that major Third world cities face, in overcrowding, pollution and poverty. Of course being the capital it is also home to a wide spectrum of social classes and groups. This paper will focus on how the dynamic between these social classes is affected by poverty and overcrowding and how the community as well as the government cope with these problems or don’t. First, we must analyze the situation with poverty and overcrowding like how they are measured and portrayed to society, and then we can assess the effect of this portrayal on the different social classes in Cairo.
Society formed three main social groups. This new social pyramid is executed in Image 2 (Document 1: The Royal Standard of Ur). The mosaic artwork depicts three scenes stacked upon each other in horizontal strips. At the bottom men are burdened with heavy sacks of food on their backs. These people are apart the lowest social rank: workers and slaves. The picture above illustrates the second tier of the society are farmers, probably the middle class, as people leading animals and carrying fish. On the top is a king, large in size compared to the others in the image, and his subjects at a party enjoying drinks and live music. The main social classes were the wealthy and powerful, agriculturalists, and the lachrymose workers. Social status determined housing conditions. A clear example of social division is Image A: Early Egyptian City. The illustration is divided into two sections. On one side of the Egyptian city there are small, crude buildings conglomerated together. These buildings are inhabited by the poor. On the opposite side of the picture, the buildings are more defined and a majority are spread farther apart. Some buildings are even standing on an individual plot of land. This is the affluent part of the city. Those who were less fortunate lived shoulder to shoulder, while the rich lived separate from them in more spacious
The importance of public space and life is an important aspect of any given society. Without such spaces, society will continue to be dived among class lines. When a certain group of people hold power and it’s all about power and control, there will always be those that are excluded and denied access to the public sphere. As long as imaginary and irrational fears are instilled into the private lives of the public, society will continue to build fortress around its buildings and to use surveillance cameras outside the doors. Public space is a right to all citizens and due to fear of the unknown; it is diminishing right before our eyes. In this day and age, to be an American means to always be under the watchful eye of another.
In fact, Maryam's adventure through Cairo unveils the impacts of the state on Egyptian society. Various institutions are at play within the novel, with economic institutions being of utmost importance. For instance, there is a juxtaposition between the once elegant El Tagi's palace and the cardboard slums that Maryam later walks through. El Tagi's palace, constructed by Maryam's ancestor, was where she grew up and is described as having had brilliant gardens and grand architecture, which is in stark contrast to the “city of cardboard [that was] Nothing but buildings and streets of paper, waiting for some ill-natured breeze to remove them from existence, exposing the ruin that had taken hold of their essence” (Ez-Eldin, 30). Maryam does not seem to travel through any middle-class neighborhood but rather fluctuates between two extremes: the wealthy and the poor.
Growing up in the Bay Area next to San Francisco ha slead me to become fascinated by the complexity of the cities of the world and how they affect so many people. I love the idea that these cities were all planned and thought up of by individuals working together for a larger goal. The planning of cities affects all its inhabitants in ways that they probably do not even realize which makes these plans and the planning process even more compelling. I am also interested in what makes cities unique. Cities are all made up of roughly the same things: blocks, big buildings, parks, cars, and people. Even though the basic elements of cities are the same they all still have there own unique character. I think one of the most distinguishing factors of cities is how they were designed to accommodate certain needs of their inhabitants outside of where they live or work. Cities can easily be overwhelming or a harsh place to live, which is why certain areas need to be set aside to offer some kind of escape. In addition to being a place to withdraw, parks and recreational areas can be a distinguishing characteristic of a city. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Park, Union square, the Presidio, the wharfs and many other areas set it apart from all of the other cities of the United States and the world. How the planners of San Francisco thought about the areas that the inhabitants needed outside of work and home helps give it its individuality as a major city. Just like how someone must plan all cities, people planned all the parks and recreational areas of cities that have such a widespread effect. By looking at Fredrick Law Olmsted and the Urban Design and Social Context approach he represents, one can learn more about landscape architecture in...
It has been given due priority in urban design and planning for promoting social cohesion as a constituent concept of the sense of belonging and community values through ethnic mixing to deal with challenges of multiculturalism in the West especially in England and Canada. The limitation of social cohesion to deal with multicultural challenges has led to contemporary planning imaginations that emphasize the meaningful engagements among different cultures. In the multicultural context, although contemporary planning imaginations do not directly refer to the role of public space at the level of local living per se, it nevertheless consider the significance of socio-physical setting public space provides for 'meaningful intercultural interactions' (Sennet, 1994), ‘openness to unassimilated otherness’ (Donald, 1999) and, as settings for ‘active civic engagements with clearly defined goal’ (Sandercock 2003). Trying to deal with the problematic of contested nature of public space in multicultural context, these imaginations in a way argue for the active civil engagements in public space through broad social participation with clearly defined goal for promoting social and civic solidarity by maintaining the meaningful distance or unassimilated otherness to live together
Meanwhile, businessman Nof Al-Kelaby provides examples of making and remaking on City Road, in relation to connections and disconnections between people and places. Having arrived...
Tony Hiss Author of The Experience of Place brings to our attention that as humans “We react, consciously or unconsciously, to the places where we live and work, in ways we scarcely notice or that are only now becoming known to us…In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.” Place defines characteristics in both human and extended moral communities. Place is not necessarily specific to gender, race, generation or specie. This understanding and recognition of place is fundamental when thinking about institutionalizing ecological and social responsibility.
Public Spaces provide unique experiences and contribute to the identity of a city. Found as places like plazas, parks, marketplaces, within buildings, lobbies and many more. Public spaces are important to our society and therefore face more arguments in design and construction compared to private spaces.
Thus, the reality of places is constructed through social actions including both individual and collective efforts, through informal associations and institutions of government and the economy, rather than through the inherent qualities (Logan and Lolotch, 1987, p.45). Hence, the conclusion is well constructed. The authors effectively use 'compare and contrast' structure and 'cause and effect' structure in the chapter to build and enhance their argument. They also back up their arguments citing various researchers throughout the chapter, in almost all the sections, making their argument more persuasive. Logan and Molotch enhances the
Everyday experience tells us that different actions need different environments to take place in a satisfactory way. This fact is of course taken into consideration by current theory of planning and architecture, but so far the problem has been treated in a too abstract way. ‘Taking place’ is usually understood in a quantitative, functional sense with implications such as spatial distribution and dimensioning. But inter-human functions are not similar everywhere, they take place in very different ways and demand places with different properties, in accordance with different cultural traditions and different environmental conditions.
Urbanization has to deal with the construction of new modernized construction and the use of technology, in total it means advancing from the local to make modernized place and an industrial site. Also it includes the construction of infrastructural buildings, infrastructural buildings are buildings that are constructed for the betterment of the country for the people it includes hospital, schools, bridges, water supplies and different other buildings. Most of the land were covered by the trees, and they only few people living there, in order to develop a modernized place, or an urbanized place, construction needs to be made. In the determination of making an urbanized place where factories and all could be done, practice such as deforestation is done. Lands that were filled with tees are then cutting in order to satisfy the project of urbanization. The urbanized places are still developing which increases the rate of
If there are more people, more, density, and a good mixture of uses, it will be a safer city... You cannot find a single city that does not wish to make the city center more vibrant or livelier.” This quote from Jan Gehl, the principal of Gehl Architects, illustrates the importance of having a sustainable city. The Central Park project has showcased to the world on how the landscape we design or occupy, can affect our daily activities and surrounding neighborhood. It sets an example of how design must be appreciated as a crucial factor in sustainability and emphasized on the fact the connection of people and nature should not be ignored. All in all, landscape architects are the ones to determine the physical characteristics of the public realm environment, to decide whether a city is attractive to people and whether people will choose to live in the city in the long