Essays on City

Shanghai is one of the largest cities of china which never ceases to amaze you with its spectacular sights and glimpse. This city offers up slices of life that stun at a mere glance. There is always something to see, do and talk about shanghai….

The Smart City Model is a combination of six factors: smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart environment and smart living (Vito Albino February 2015). Considering these six factors a smart city is planned to provide the public with a better quality of…

In order to understand the spatial and social differences between these cities, it is important to be able to see how the economic structure in the time period influenced the way people lived and were able to obtain capital as well as seeing the major…

It is well documented that transportation systems for decades have had a powerful impact on health. These impacts are not new but as cities have become increasingly important and agglomerated, the impacts on health has been more severe and clearly have affected in an unfair…

There’s more to a city than just concrete, steel and hard work. The color of a city’s architecture and the creativity of its people can turn a dull, functional town into a thing of vibrant beauty. From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the…

Pompeii has grown famous for its well-kept preservation of Roman life. The city was an average Roman town that thrived in the empire. It was known for its fertility due to the volcano, Vesuvius, providing rich soil for any farmers in the area. A nearby…

SEA LIFE Bangkok Ocean World For the Thalassophile in you, Bangkok does offer a huge Ocean World (a big Aquarium) spread across a 10000 sq.metre stretch located in Siam Paragon building, Pathum Wan district. Being one amongst the 36+ branches positioned globally , Sea Life…

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….

INTRODUCTION Kozhikode, the coastal town in Malabar. The city means different things to different people. Some know it as the land where Vasco da Gama set foot, finding sea routes that changed the dynamics of 15th century trade. Some know it for the authentic Malabar…

Wandering through Paris, Mercier must surely have questioned how to write a city with no apparent visual or conceptual unity; his works could be described as any number of science-fiction, travel writing, or even satire. It is imaginable that he employed facets of multiple genres,…