Urban legends have long been included in our culture as traditional stories that often provide a moral conclusion cultivated and spread either orally or written on paper. Many of these tales are often misunderstood as a false story‚ however these tales are derived from real life events‚ and are exaggerated and modified as time passes. Urban legends commonly reflect the fears of a society and often include warnings that prevent a certain action or else something unfortunate will happen to the person
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Urban Morphology of Dhaka City: Spatial Dynamics of Growing City and the Urban Core Prof. Dr. Farida Nilufar Department of Architecture‚ Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Email: faridanilufar@yahoo.com [Paper presented on the International Seminar on The History‚ Heritage and Urban Issues of Capital Dhaka‚ on the occasion of the Celebration of 400 years of the Capital Dhaka‚ Organized by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh‚ 17-19 February 2010. Accepted for Publication
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What is Urban Design? “The art of creating and shaping cities and towns...” The word design is used as a verb as well as a noun. It refers to the process and activity of designing as well as the end result and/or product. Much confusion takes place unless this clearly understood. The process The process of designing (certainly in urban design) has two aspects. One aspect is the process of making decisions and choices which directly affect the physical forms and qualities of a city or town. Those
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Urban Gentrification and Urban Morphology The term ‘gentrification’ has myriads of interpretations from different geographers‚ and sociologists. Ever since‚ there has been protracted debate on its methodology‚ consequences and whether it constitutes a dominant or residual urban form. The term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the Marxist urban geographer Ruth Glass (Glass‚ 1964) to describe the influx of wealthier individuals into cities or neighbourhoods who replace working or lower-classes
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Urban Culture Urban industrial development combined with mass transportation and urban growth destroyed the old pedestrian city of the past. The physical expansion of the city attracted industry‚ capital‚ and people. By the early 1900s‚ the modern American city‚ with its urban mass and distinct constituencies‚ was clearly taking shape. Cities grow in three ways: through physical expansion‚ by natural increase‚ and through migration and immigration. In the late nineteenth century‚ immigration
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The term ‘urban heat island’ refers to the localized increase in temperature associated with an urban area. The UHI is an example of unintentional climate modification when urbanization changes the characteristics of the earth’s surface and atmosphere. It was observed that the UHI effect might result in minimum urban temperatures being 5-6° greater than the surrounding countryside. In the case of London‚ mean annual temperature was 11°C‚ while the surrounding countryside was 9.6°C and the suburbs
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Research Paper The history of the urban utopia arose when theorists and city planners decided that a radical reconstruction of their cities (Venturi 4) was needed. There are problems that arose in cities of every generation and these problems have sparked the minds of the greatest thinkers‚ planner‚ architects‚ and theorists of the 19th century. These were the first attempts at correcting the problems that we deal with today. Problems such as dealing with growth‚ dealing with nature‚ and dealing
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Life in a City and Urban Mentality Very early on in our development‚ our mentalities are sculpted by our immediate environment. As we grow and venture out to new and exciting things‚ our mentalities are again altered by different experiences and encounters. Venturing out into a large and populous city like New York City‚ for example‚ will definitely effect one’s mentality. For someone like myself who grew up in suburban Long Island where your neighbors are your friends and the mailman is addressed
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Amelia Scotney ‘To what extent do urban areas modify their climate?’ – 40 marks. Cities create their own microclimates and their sites are almost always warmer‚ compared to a nearby rural location‚ than if the city were not there. The differences in urban climates are due to a number of different factors. The Urban Heat Island effect is known as the zone of hot air that develops over the urban areas and consequently higher temperatures than the surrounding rural area. Temperatures progressively
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people living in the rural areas shift to the urban areas in order to find a better life. Since medieval times people have been migrating to the places where resources are in abundance. This process is being in witnessed all over the world‚ and many consider it to be bad thing. Some even regard urbanization to be a “Modern Disease”. Before embarking in to any conclusion I would like to see both the aspects of the topic. The shift or movement to the city creates many opportunities for the people. It
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