Essays on Cities

Bangalore is one of India’s most populated industrial metropolitan cities. It has a unique lineage of ancestral landmarks, sacred temples, and traditional culinary flavors. For those who love a taste of adventure, south Bangalore is an ideal spot. While you visit Bangalore, make sure you…

What kind of cities have we built over past decades particularly when we look at unjust urban spaces? The uneven development of many public spaces is a classic case of spatial injustice in Iran, mainly in the inner city of Tehran. Most of the practices…

Mangalore prominently called as Coastal city and Kudla, it is gateway to the Karnataka and this city is one the fastest developing city in India. Mangalore is one of the cities which adopt any development project quietly such as E-toilet, Indira canteen, concrete roads and…

This is a city found in Orange County in California. As per the 2010 census, Brea city has a population of 39,282 and is located just 33 miles south-east of LosAngeles. The city was famous for its crude oil production, later citrus production to a…

New York City is not New York without the Empire State Building. Just like Paris is not Paris without the Eiffel Tower, London for the Big Ben, Rome for the Colosseum, China for the Great Wall, Egypt for the Pyramids and so on. But what…

In previous years, cities have gone missing all over the world and it’s not due to magic. These are called lost cities which are defined as “a settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site’s…

The annual rise in housing was 2 to 3 per cent in 2018 in UK where the analysts from PwC claim the growth may not change significantly in coming years. In 2017, property rates remained stagnant, and now are showing negative trends, which is expected…

Cities around the world are juggling with problems that inherent with rapid urbanization and development. The rapid urbanization is putting a lot of pressure on the available infrastructure facilities like water, sanitation, housing, educational institutions, waste management, hospitals, and mobility etc. in the urban areas….

For this project, I chose to study Union Square from the trolley turnaround to the square, and then into Macy’s, I decided on that path because it has a lot of historical significance and acts as the heart of the city. The other area I…