Essays on City

The Garden City is most commonly defined as “a town that has been planned to include a lot of trees, plants, and open spaces;” in essence, a desirable place to live, where the environment has been specifically created to help inhabitants live a fulfilling, healthy,…

Since the earliest civilizations, the city is perceived as a direct product of human actions. The city is born and evolves, it reinvents itself, adapts and expands; thus, in this context, the city can be understood as a living organism which sole purpose is to…

Economic and Educational Factors in Faisalabad Faisalabad covers a vast agricultural area, but with the growing population the agricultural land is replacing by hotels, housing societies, shopping malls, business centres and multi-national companies. In past recent years the emergence of educational institutions has grown in…

Introduction Officially shopping malls are defined as “one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnected walkways enabling visitors to walk from unit to unit. Unofficially, they are the heart and soul of communities, the foundation of retail economies, and a…

According to Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, ‘A city’s resilience depends on its physical assets as well as its policies, social capital and institution. ’There must however be a system of resilience in place which will allow for…

Growing up, my parents religiously watched CBC News. To avoid living in a bubble, they were keen on staying informed about events happening all over the world. Naturally, as I got older, my interest in global issues become more prominent as well. Watching the news…

The idea of providing better living standards by incorporating technology into day-to-day activities of people is the sole purpose of the emergence of smart cites. This paper highlights some major technologies and solutions to various problems faced by the citizens due to lack of digitization….

Our present culture of utilization is unsustainable. Removing crude materials from regular spaces requires a lot of vitality and causes contamination, regardless of whether it is logging a woods, digging for minerals or boring for oil. Handling these materials requires more vitality and causes more…

Reading what writes Mike Davis on Dubai, the phantasmagorical metropolis of the desert, my thoughts focus on a reflection on the environment. Dubai was born within a few decades from nothing thanks to macro-credit and ecocide, suppression e perhaps modern slavery. Once the manic burst…

Both London and Bangkok are capital cities, London being the capital of GreatBritain and Bangkok being the capital of Thailand. These two capitals attract manytourists from all over the world to see the naturally wonderful views that MotherNature has to offer, and the creatively artistic…

If you look around the city of Memphis in the year 2018, you will notice that the city is not the best looking in a lot of locations, previously attractive old architecture quickly become dingy eyesores when not cared for. There is more of a…

Environmental sustainability is an important aspect to consider when planning a city as it affects the population and the quality of their lifestyle. By implementing actions to enhance a sustainable area for a population to live, this allows the people to in the city to…

If not new upcoming cities are made to provide accommodation for the growing number of people and individuals, the present cities and towns would rapidly happen to be unlivable. The administration and the government intends to construct 100 satellite towns close to existing urban territories…

Network video cameras are currently used in multiple cities around the world for traffic monitoring, surveillance and meeting security needs. These systems have replaced, to a large extent, the closed-circuit analogue television (CCTV). Not with standing the above, the role played by these teams in…

Odessa is not just a city surrounded by legends and myths, but a real city legend. Myths Pearl began to grow into overgrown with the first minutes of its existence. It seems that when laying the first stone something out of the ordinary happened. Today…