Essays on City Planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process that takes into consideration man’s environs and surroundings. This field of study is focused on the use of land, public welfare, urban environment which includes air, water, and all kinds of infrastructure passing in and out of urban areas such as transportation networks, communication and distribution networks. Urban planning started way back in the 20thcentury. Urban cities that are admired today during the world war two can be traced to be great ideas of visionaries who lived and wrote long ago though in most cases they have been substantially ignored ...

Even though the building of cities has a long and a correspondingly complex history, the concept of city planning as an organized profession has only been around for less than a century (Garvin). Practiced under several names (town, community, urban land use, or physical environment planning), most cities in the current modernistic concept of planning display considerable degrees of forethought and conscious design not only in their physical layout but also in their functioning. Today, the building of cities is done for several reasons that bear in mind the diversity potential of urban forms and the complex functions that ...

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the role of ethics in policy analysis and decision making. What is the real role of a policy analyst? There are situations where there is a conflict in interest between different stakeholders, what should the policy analyst do? Decision making can be a really tough call to do sometimes. Should the analyst go with the easier solution? In the upcoming case studies, we will reveal the importance of ethics in policy analysis in different fields. Let`s take a closer look on some of the key issues that we are going ...