Kellen Green HIST 4305 Dr. Driver 9 October 2014 White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. Print. Richard White in his book, Railroaded, writes about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and all of the people, events, and influences that made this construction so controversial.
A foreign visitor to the United States might be intrigued by the different look of the American landscape as compared to those of Europe, Asia, or South America. With their works, Kenneth T. Jackson and Dolores Hayden both shed clarity on the look of American tracts, malls, and highways with Crabgrass Frontier and Building Suburbia, respectively. Kenneth T. Jackson write’s Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States to answer the question: Why are American suburbs different from those in other countries? He investigates the dynamics of land use, process of city growth through history, and the ways in which Americans coming taught in metropolitan areas have arranged their activities.
Tasha Spillett’s graphic novel, Surviving the City, focuses on the two teens Dez and Miikwan, both from Indigenous backgrounds, and how they face the complexities of living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Living in this urban city as well, I have noticed the struggles that the Indigenous peoples are experiencing to this day, especially the women who are still being outcasted and ignored. In this book report, I will be discussing the impact that I have received from this comic, as well as the art style and graphics used by its illustrator, Natasha Donovan. Before reading this book, I already had some knowledge of the foster care system as my mother’s work involves helping to provide funds for the needs of the Manitoba Métis Federation. From time to time, she would talk about how she felt seeing their struggles, and it would evoke
Throughout this weeks reading on Chapter 4, we focus in on the Progressive Era and the establishment of urban America. The industrial revolution was at its peak and the United States was developing rapidly. Immigration, manufacturing output, and urban development grew faster than any other time in the nation’s history. Not only that, but scientific developments changed lives and revolutionary theories challenged traditional beliefs. As Rury suggests, “ . . .
One effective technique Goldberger implements is his use of ethos. “Disconnected Urbanism” was originally published in Metropolis magazine ( ). The subscribers to this magazine are typically members of the “architecture and design industry” ( ). In the world of architecture, Paul Goldberger is known for being a Pulitzer Prize winning critic ( ). As a result, Goldberger appeals to the readers of the magazine by being an award-winning author that they can believe.
There has to be a realistic solution that can be put into motion to benefit everyone involved. Referring again to his article “Is Gentrification All Bad?” Davidson argues that urban renewal, if done right, is not a monstrous custom that it is painted to be; nevertheless, he reasons that gentrification depends on who does it, how they do it, and why they do it. As a resident in New York, a city where gentrification is as widespread as the common cold in winter, Davidson speculates that those who go into a neighborhood with the intention to renovate houses, or abandoned buildings ought to have a good reason for it. The author points out that “Gentrification does not have to be something that one group inflicts on another…” (Davidson 349), rather, he suggests that everyone, the gentrifiers and the locals, be on the same page when it comes to developing their
Isaac Shaw October 9, 2014 Hist 2020 Dr. Paulauskas Paper #1 In the 1890’s, America was starting to experience changes leading to new revelations in the way it functioned in mass communication, mass transportation, and urbanization. In Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, he brings the seemingly different stories of two men in this time period, one a mass murder, H.H. Holmes and, the other a grand architect, Daniel Burnham to explain how America was changing into a more modern era. First, both Burnham and Holmes used the popularity of urbanization to achieve their individual goals.
In the book “Suburban Nation, The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream”, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck try to let their readers know another story about the suburban life. In their opinion, sprawl doesn’t help American
Have you ever wondered why New York City is one of the most protected cities in the world? On September 11, 2001 there were four terrible attacks in the United States of America. There were attacks on both of the Twin Towers in New York City, one on the Pentagon in Washington DC, and one was headed for the either the Capitol building or the White house in Washington DC but was taken down in a field in Pennsylvania. The plane that was taken down was crashed into a field because two brave men knocked out the pilots and put the plane down in a safe location without many people. Over 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.
What makes objects important? They are the key to any great story. Objects can be anything that designates everything. They bring meaning to someone, additionally they can be the reason that they keep people endeavoring to succeed. Objects can connect recollections of consequential life experiences, also, cause it effortless to recollect the experience.
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED AND CAMILLO SITTE: NOT AS DIFFERENT AS THEY FIRST APPEAR Harkening from different sides of the Atlantic, two influential urban planners worked to transform the blossoming urban environment of the nineteenth century, albeit with very different approaches. This essay will be looking at the ideals and some of the work of Frederick Law Olmsted and Camillo Sitte. Born within just over twenty years of one and other, Olmsted in Hartford, Connecticut, and Sitte in Vienna, both men had careers encompassing fields well beyond urban planning. Not a planner by training, Olmsted delved into the world of planning when he and Calvert Vaux won the design competition for New York’s Central Park in 1858.
Rem Koolhaas, observes and begins his retroactive manifesto, a scripted chronology of the stages of Manhattanism, its changing’s and lasting legacies; especially the culture of congestion. Manhattans own metropolitan urbanism and revolutionary lifestyle. Through his optimistic narrative “Delirious New York” he documents the repeated elements and themes in New York’s development and decline that make it a theatre of progress and the capital of timeless crisis. This focuses in particular on the skyscraper as a product of the physical manifestation of Manhattanism on the grid, along with the relationship between this density-focused architecture and the culture of congestion.
In each of these case studies she investigates several urban projects. For example, in the New York chapter, she analyzes three development projects of Battery Park and Yankee Stadium mostly by considering the contribution of these projects to affordable housing and provision of inclusive public space. She then concludes that New York is diverse, but its policy and planning has led to inequity and a lack of democracy. This problem city is contrasted in her book by framing Amsterdam,as a Utopia where where her criteria of a just city are all met. When reading these chapters it can be inferred that Fainstein believes if a city has a egalitarian political culture, adequate welfare for all, and inhabitants can live in harmony and tolerance that the city will be just and successful.
The United States thus far has in planning has treated people in its’ path as a nuisance to be solved. If we look at planning from Boyer’s (1986) point of view, who highlights planning as a “search for spatial order”, planning has overlooked who its’ order is suppose to benefit. Planning has been treating the masses as a sickness that is named disorder, rather than as beneficiaries. In 1890, Jacob Rite, published How the Other Half Live, which provided vivid descriptions of the New York City Slums and its’ residents with the majority being immigrants (cited in Hall, 2014).
Climate change is not global warming or weather. While it has to do with both of them, they are separate entities in the distant future. Climate change is the long term average weather in a certain area of the world. Weather is the state of the atmosphere at any given time. For example, temperature and precipitation.
