The Urban Flâneur Guidebook: The technique of being a Suburban Flâneur (revised 15 September 2012) (This image was found within an interesting piece, "Unit 1: A Crisis of Place and the Alternative of the New Urbanism" , on New Urbanism Online.) One of the defining aspects of an urban flâneur is the activity of strolling down streets, stopping in cafes, observing people and thoughtfully contemplating the totality of the present urban environment that sh(e is immersed. This is usually accompanied by note writing and perhaps photographs. To an urban flâneur, the urban environment is multi-layered and not just a collection of houses, shops, streets, or factories, but a dynamic entity in which people conduct their lives and experience the world outside of them. In our present age, suburbs are now a significant part of all major cities in the world, developed and developing. As previously mentioned, one of the major distinctions of being an urban flâneur is the aspect of strolling or walking aimlessly.
Urban World: A new app for exploring an unprecedented wave of urbanization The McKinsey Global Institute’s updated Urban World app offers a look at how demographic shifts will affect the growth of cities through 2025. For more than a decade, the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has been studying the unprecedented global wave of urbanization. As the business and economics research arm of McKinsey, we provide leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy decisions. For years, demographic trends worked in favor of urban growth—huge cohorts of working-age people fueled cities’ economies. But now there is a radical break in that trend. Two major shifts are happening at the same time: population growth is slowing worldwide, and rural-to-urban migration is waning as a force for urban expansion, particularly in developed economies. App screenshot Even within countries, there are large variations in cities’ demographic profiles. Install the Urban World App for iPhone, iPad, or Android.
Map of Most Common Race It's been a challenge for me to fully understand what's been going on lately, so I find myself looking at a lot of data and maps. It kind of feels like grasping at straws, but at least it's something. The map above shows the most prevalent race in each county, based on data from the 2013 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Select and deselect to make various comparisons. For reference, the national estimates from the 5-year 2013 estimates where 63.3% white, 16.6% percent Hispanic, 12.2% black, 4.8% Asian, 0.7% Native American or Alaskan, and 0.2% Pacific Islander. Click, drag, and zoom for details. Here's St. Similarly, below is Baltimore, Maryland. For me, it was interesting to compare nonwhite races, because whites tend to make up a high percentage that obscures the single-digit distributions. So yeah, there that is. The map doesn't show everything.
Planetary Urbanization, Chair of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich Theory project Neil Brenner, Professor of urban theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Christian Schmid, Professor of sociology, faculty of architecture, ETH Zurich Already four decades ago, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, demanding a radical shift in analysis from urban form to the urbanization process. Today, the urban represents an increasingly worldwide condition in which political-economic relations are enmeshed. Brenner Schmid - Planetary Urbanization 2011 Neil Brenner, Professor of urban theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Neil Brenner: Implosions / Explosions 2013
Garden Bridge: Tough questions for £175m Thames project Image copyright Heatherwick Studio The proposed Garden Bridge across the River Thames has run into trouble after changes in the government and the end of Boris Johnson's run as London mayor. New Transport Secretary Chris Grayling is due to decide whether to extend a £15m government underwriting of the £175m project until September 2017. But tough questions are being asked in Whitehall about the footbridge and its public value, Newsnight understands. The Garden Bridge Trust said it hoped ministers would continue to support it. The 366m (1,200ft) tree-covered Garden Bridge, whose construction is yet to begin, would span the Thames between Temple and the South Bank. Mr Grayling is understood to be keen to study all the options ahead of his decision, which needs to be made imminently to allow the trust - the charity responsible for building the bridge - to file its accounts this week. 'Shut bridges not brilliant' Image copyright Arup 'Lone voice'
The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares How much extra money a county causes children in poor families to make, compared with children in poor families nationwide. Manhattan is very bad for income mobility for children in poor families. It is better than only about 7 percent of counties. Location matters – enormously. If you’re poor and live in the New York area, it’s better to be in Putnam County than in Manhattan or the Bronx. But even Putnam County is below the national average. These findings, particularly those that show how much each additional year matters, are from a new study by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren that has huge consequences on how we think about poverty and mobility in the United States. Consider Manhattan, the focus of this articleour best guess for where you might be reading this article. It’s among the worst counties in the U.S. in helping poor children up the income ladder. For poor kids For average-income kids For rich kids For kids in the top 1% “The broader lesson of our analysis,” Mr.
List of metropolitan areas in Europe This is a list of metropolitan areas. For a list of urban areas, see Largest urban areas of the European Union. For a list of cities proper, see Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. For a list of European cities by country, see List of cities in Europe. Satellite picture of Europe by night. This is a list of metropolitan areas in Europe, with their population according to five different sources. List includes metropolitan areas according only studies of ESPON, Eurostat, United Nations, OECD and "CityPopulation Studies". Figures in the first column come from the ESPON project, "Study on Urban Functions", which defines cities according to the concept of a functional urban area (core urban area defined morphologically on the basis of population density, plus the surrounding labour pool defined on the basis of commuting). Metropolitan areas[edit] Polycentric metropolitan areas[edit] (Only European Union without Commonwealth of Independent States and Turkey)
Where We Came From, State by State Foreign immigration is a hot topic these days, but the movement of people from one state to another can have an even bigger influence on the United States’ economy, politics and culture. Americans have already seen this with the Western expansion, the movement of Southern blacks to Northern cities and the migration from the Rust Belt. The patterns of migration continue to change. States in the South that have traditionally been dominated by people who were born there are seeing significant in-migration for the first time. The following charts document domestic migration since the turn of the last century, based on census data. Migration can reveal the dynamism of a state’s economy or a cultural renaissance.
1. The Latin American mega-city: An introduction Contents - Previous - Next This is the old United Nations University website. Visit the new site at 1. What is a mega-city? Alan Gilbert By the year 2000, the world will contain 28 mega-cities with more than eight million people each (UNDIESA and UNU, 1991: 6). The sheer number of people living in Latin America's mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Table 1.1 Latin America's giant cities, 1995 Source: United Nations, Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, 1995:132 9. The Lima of today, with its population of five million, has changed Peru and these changes are also its problems - because Lima is a problem difficult to unravel. What is a mega-city? Mega-cities are "cities that are expected to have populations of at least eight million inhabitants by the year 2000" (UNDIESA, 1986: iii). Figure 1.1 Latin America's giant cities Are mega-cities different from smaller cities? Source: White and Whitney, 1992:16. Job opportunities Food Water
Jobs Charted by State and Salary The industries that people work in can say a lot about an area. Is there a lot of farming? Is there a big technology market? Couple the jobs that people work with salary, and you also see where the money's at. You see a state's priorities. For example, look at California. For a drastic change, switch to Washington, D.C., where people who work in the legal and business sectors are much more common. Move the median salary up a bit, and you get a sense of overall salaries (and a correlating cost of living, kind of) as you check out different states. Anyway, it's an interesting first look at employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Urban report: Brick and Gold. The Urbanism and Architecture of Informal Belgrade Text: Milica Topalović Photo: ETH Studio Basel & Bas Princen This text is an excerpt from an essay “Brick and Gold: The Urbanism and Architecture of Informal Belgrade” by Milica Topalović in Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation. The book was initiated in 2006 and produced by the ETH Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute and published in 2011 by Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess from Zürich. Periphery Streets are quiet, pedestrian friendly, and yet a pedestrian pavement is missing. Backbones The conceptual gulf between the unstable collectivism of the 1960’s and the ’70’s and the ethos of self realization of the 1990’s corresponds to a physical demarcating space that can be easily followed in Belgrade, even drawn as a map. Housing Redundancy is the basic attribute of informal housing. Public Throughout the era of wild expansion, a related “jungle” quality dominated the broadcasting and telecommunication sectors. Planning Legalization Efficiency Building Methaphor
Mapping America’s Futures What will America look like in 2030? We can already see that the population is aging and becoming more diverse, but how will those trends play out at the local and regional levels? And what if, in the future, we live longer or have more babies? How would those trends affect the population in different cities and states? These demographic shifts matter a great deal to states and local communities. To help visualize the future, the Urban Institute developed a tool as part of the “Mapping America’s Futures” series that projects local-level population trends out to 2030 (the button on the right will take you there). The rates are all reasonable assumptions, based on historical trends. A future with more births and longer lives looks very different from one with fewer births and high mortality. Top: Atanta, Shutterstock. Planning for growth and for decline:The futures of Atlanta and Youngstown A once-booming industrial powerhouse, the Youngstown area has been losing residents for decades.