Urban City Plannin

When urban planners sit at a table, and they are deciding what actions to take, they look at location as a primary source for putting cities together, with the development of houses, industries, and places for market goods to be sold while always trying to increase the supply and demand. In order to get from one place to the next, transportation methods were created to combat city growth and create valuable mechanisms of transporting goods and services within a market. Individuals determined to make things work within a given city constantly recreate, and challenge the laws of nature to make it fit their vision, because entrepuners want to bring character to cities by making them viable places to reside, consequences such as poverty , death, and poorly developed cities arose. Urban planning for city development is a constant battle between losers in winners in the struggle to manage population growth and the need for its current and future sustainability.

City planning developed from the profession of engineering. It was a theory put into practice for the purpose of city building. “The art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man” (Thomas Tredgold).They felt they needed to control nature in order to make money and expand the city. This targeted public transportation, water as a service, welfare capitalism, building regulations, and health sanitation. Though one of the major concerns were the issues of finance, and how thing were going to be paid for. As cities begin to grow, they can then issue debt, to pay for city services.

Middle class neighborhoods were built across from rivers and mills and away from polluted factories and industrialization. George Pullman, an industrialist, was on...

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...enty-four hours, a torrent of floodwaters surged through Sacramento, carrying away most anything in their path, from tents and small buildings to wagons and livestock, there was no adequate means of escape for life or property” (120).This goes to show that nature has a way of taking its own course. Hurricane Katrina is a prime example of us trying to control nature and her constantly reclaiming her territory. As a people, we don’t choose to walk away from conflict, instead, we keep rebuilding because of our emotional ties & investment in the land. So what we do as individuals is find ways to make nature work for us by building levees, dams, canals, and recreating the space. One of the best examples of man’s direct artificial imposition on nature is Discovery Park. This allows for diversion of floods, and is a great use of land and space for recreational activities.