City Assignment Examples

When we walk around a city, there are items we always keep close to our person; wallets, phones, bags. To me, it seems that they connect us to the world and give us a feeling of purpose. So, you would imagine how strange I felt, walking with no bag and no purpose in New York…

Leaving the hotel lobby through the revolving doors, the only thing I could hear is a foreign language that sounds aggressive and fast paced. This is Tokyo. The doormen hailing cabs in patience and discipline, wearing their sharp tuxedos and the bellboys running in at out of the lobby carrying more and more each trip….

The completion and achievement of building the New York City subway many years ago has proved to the today world that it is possible to build underground railroads beneath the most populous city in the United States with thousands of skyscrapers and millions of crowded and packed streets. Along with the busy lives of thousands…

This thesis seeks to analyse the dynamics behind post-industrial waterfront revitalisation with a view to alternative approaches. Building upon the body of theoretical discourse that has emerged since the 1980’s to explore the emergent pattern of waterfront development globally, and using comparative case studies the thesis will explore the characteristics of the postmodern1 waterfront development…

To investigate the urban morphology of Croydon with increasing distance from the CBD. Urban morphology is the change in land use e.g. large offices, open farms, residential housing and so on. I will do this with reference to four urban morphology models: Bid-Rent, Burgess, Hoyt, and Ullman and Harris. Introduction to Croydon Croydon is an…

The central issue of this essay is to outline how material things on city road favour the activities of some groups of people over others, I feel this question should be answered in three ways, there seem to be three distinct social factions, Students, Low Income and Ethnic minorities. I plan to break down each…

There is no escaping the fact that most cities in the UK are trying to gain some type of status to encourage people back in. These efforts, usually evoked by City councils, can be otherwise know as Urban re-imaging and closely linked to urban regeneration. Basically they are trying to re-launch a deteriorated area and…

The most important way that life was better for people in Saltaire was the quality of houses. For example all of the 824 houses in Saltaire had a living room, a kitchen and two bedrooms as well as a back yard and some had a small front garden. All the houses in Saltaire had piped…

With a population of nearly 26 million, Shanghai, a city of large population density has seen a dramatic increase of issues stemming from large scale motor congestion over past decades. An exponential population growth and increase of both availability and affordability of private transport has resulted in unprecedented levels of motorway usage. This is further…

Overview Ahmedabad was founded lately in 1411 AD on the eastern bank of the river Sabarmati. It started as a walled city and expanded along and on the sides of the river with time. Ahmedabad was known a the “Manchester of the East” as it headed the textile business of the country. The city is…