Essays on Central Business District

Introduction

The desire to conform to the norms is what makes the foundation of a civilized society. Social order, for instance, is a desired attribute that is founded on established written and unwritten rules that are being observed by most people within a society. Deviation from these established rules is considered as undesirable and people who deviate are considered as having abnormal qualities or malfunctioning (Merton, 2002, p. 672). There are instances, however, wherein some people are observed to deviate from the standard pattern of human behavior. This deviation has captured the interest of many social scientists and have been ...

Urban Parks in Central Business District

Vegetation is a key element in the continuation of life. It provides clean air, ground cover, and food for living things. Moreover, it plays the role of balancing the earth’s atmospheric temperatures. However, the urbanization of nations brought about depletion in forests as the workforce required more energy and fuel resources to propel its activities. In other places, the presence of arid areas made it hard for its inhabitants to reclaim lost land and improve. In the last one decade, there are concerns raised by different environmental bodies showing their concern towards depleting inhibitive conditions on earth, prompting ...

Ningbo’s newly completed Central Business District (CBD) belies its status as one of China’s oldest cities. The austere downtown landscape is the equivalent of architecture’s white-washed wall: a place of erasure, forgetting, and dubious progress. With the completion of Wang Shu’s Ningbo Museum in 2008, however, the Ningbo of the present is confronted by the forgotten landscape of its not too distant past. A craggy mountain of a building inspired by the region’s natural topographical features as well its unique crafts and architectural traditions, the Ningbo Museum is not simply an obligatory nod to ...

Part. 1 Concept introduction and analysis

Introduction This report presents a proposal for a restaurant establishment in Clarke Quay in Singapore. The report provides an overview of the proposed location and the market trends identifying the suitability of the proposed concept. To achieve that, the proposal involves analysis of the target market and the financial prospects of the business deciding on whether the model is viable.

Restaurant concept

Generic strategy The restaurant will have a premium pricing given the target customers it will be serving in Clarke Quay. The customers are mainly professionals and visitors with substantial income to afford the premium price for the food items ...

Ecological Struggle in the American Society

The current society has been characterized by rapid developments on all facets of life, that is, political, social, economic, and technological aspects. As a result of the progress witnessed, the human society has responded in a similar fashion as the human race has progressed far beyond that of the past centuries. The accompanying change has in the same way instigated individual lifestyles and also group dynamics regarding issues of communication and interrelationships. Human beings are differentiated from other species on the basis of the availability of their social or cultural aspects (Stephan, 2001). In this case, in addition to ...

Metropolises are large urban areas or cities that are significant political, economic and social cultural centers for a given region or country. They are also important hubs for international or regional commerce, communications and connections. In reference to large cities, neighborhoods are usually districts or localities characterized by certain ranks and qualities of its inhabitants. Therefore, neighborhood segregation refers to the physical separation of urban localities or residents into two or more neighborhoods. Although neighborhood segregation had been attributed to social courses such as ethnicity, racism and cultures, in the last few decades, there is growing evidence that differences ...

Introduction

The central feature of the mega city plan of Victoria’s capital, Melbourne 2030 outlines a comprehensive network of activity centres which comprises of a range of centres and functions that are linked with a strategic public transport network. This is to prevent the clustering and concentration of all commercial activities in central Melbourne and decentralise these activities to different little central business districts within the neighbourhoods to ensure an even distribution of activities throughout the city. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse the importance and purpose of activity centres in the development of cities and its importance in ...

Property development and management is a multifaceted business that entails the many aspects of the construction and the leasing of the properties as well as selling them in the context of making it a business of a motive to earn a profit in the long run. The context that entails the renovation and even construction of new upcoming buildings and even re-lease them to the various tenants who operate in the business. The business which is termed as real estate development have a motive of improving the excising assets to increase its value in the context that seeks to paddle the business ahead. The ...

Introduction

About 20,000 years ago, things like towns and cities never existed as the humans who existed during that era lived in small and nomadic groups. The first urban centers emerged about 10 millenniums ago in places such as Catal Hoyuk in modern day Turkey and Jericho in Palestine. The concept of urban centers then started to spread to other parts of the world including the Western nations .As a result of this, very many urban centers of varying nature have continued to emerge in all corners of the world. Today, more than half the population in the Western nations ...