Essays on Residential Areas

Zhang (107) examines the interesting process of how social stratification in the society emerges. He takes a critical look at China whereby people did not care about differentiated lifestyles and status recognition in the past. But today, the Chinese community is encountering the rise of a middle-class society with stratified residential areas and expensive consumer tastes. The sociospatial nature of cities in the country under socialism which maintained a homogenous community has now transformed into a heterogeneous setup. In most early societies, individuals shared a similar social standing. However, as the communities began evolving and becoming complex, some members ...

Abstract

The spread of urbanization and industrialization has widened the bridge between human beings and nature. It is despite numerous studies illustrating that bio-aesthetics; a factor of nature has positive outcomes that include economic, psychological, spiritual, and functional outcomes. It is therefore imperative that targeted efforts be undertaken in order to improve the bio-aesthetics of various public and private spaces. The Mysore City Authority has identified the need to improve bio-aesthetics within the city through the development of parks. However, measures have to be undertaken to improve residential bio-aesthetics as well. It is especially the case considering that the number ...

Introduction to the Community:

Community health is a critical aspect of modern day care and the need to focus on a community as the client is one of the roles of the nurses. It provides for an assessment of the overall health needs of a community based on the identification that communities or societies share behaviors and values across food choices, behaviors and preferences all that have a direct influence on the health depicted by the community in question (Nies & McEwen, 2015). The focus of this paper is on the assessment of the Brooklyn New York 11234 community as our target community which ...

VASCONCELOS LIBRARY BY ALBERTO KALACH

Vasconcelos Library The architect of Vasconcelos Library is Alberto Kalach, who was born in Mexico and established the firm "Taller de Arquitectura X" 1. Kalach is considered one of the most versatile among the architects in Mexico and has worked on a wide range of projects that cover residential areas, civic structures, and contemporary buildings. Jose Vasconcelos Library is considered an award-winning project by him and is the largest public library in Latin America. Around the middle of the 1960’, the architectural profession saw two visions, one was the vision of the modernity, and the other was to achieve ...

Q1. Why do you believe cities are thriving today?

Thesis of the Statement We will be studying about the developments of the urban cities of present days. The reasons why they are thriving today and what are the benefits of these developments on the economy.

Introduction

The reason was that people went to settle or find job in those cities where there was modern facilities, entertainment, prospect to rise. If we see the data we will find that mostly cities that are besides any water body like sea or ocean mostly those cities thrived fast due to trade. Trading with different countries was an important source of income for ...

The current growth of higher education has increased the concentrations of students in residential areas in urban centers (Smith, 2005). Most of higher learning institutions have open doors policy for both the local and international students that translate into the influx of students from different cultural backgrounds in residential areas. The firms owning residential buildings interpret studentification as a benefit to their business (Sage, Smith, & Hubbard, 2012). These companies usually inflate the rental charges to match the increased housing demand. The social cohesion in the residential communities has also been adversely affected by the growing number of students in ...

When a Ferguson grand jury declines to charge policeman Darren Wilson for murdering Michael Brown, Ta-Nehisi Coates watches as his son Samori walks into his bedroom and cries. Michael Brown is a young African American boy who was unarmed when he was shot by the police officer in Missouri. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, a winner of the National Book Award and a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant” 2015. Between the World and Me is a critical response he writes to his son that explains and details his experience of racism in the United ...