Essays on Town Planning

Annotated Bibliography

Introduction Ethics is important in any professional body. This paper focuses on some of the ethical studies done on urban development in regional and town planning. Through the paper, one will examine some of the sources that will be used while dealing with the mentioned topic. Most of the sources that have been used in this annotated bibliography are American. This is because one believes America has a more ethical background in ethical issues dealing with urban development. In addition, the chosen articles are more relevant and deeply researched making them more appropriate for the study. By using American ...

Background/Literature Review

Nature causes all floods despite the fact that some manmade activities also contribute in flooding. The developed nations on the globe including UK and the United States do suffer from losses caused by flooding (Natural Disasters-Floods). For instance, the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina that took place between 2005 and 2009 were intensified due to manmade activities (Shrum, 2014).

Classification of Flooding

Floods can be classified into river and coastal floods. Mandych (2011) defined river floods as inundations of river valleys that are caused by high waters running downstream. This is the most frequent and widespread type of floods. He added that river ...

Flooding is the most frequent occurring natural hazard on the globe. Man-made activities enhance its intensity and frequency by disturbing the natural ecosystems, as well as climate. Flooding has a lot of consequences including reduction in economic growth and prosperity.

Thesis Statement: Flooding has economic, social and environment concerns, and there is a

need to adopt mitigation strategies to minimize the impacts of this disaster. - Background/Literature Review - Classification of flooding Floods can be classified into river or coastal floods. The phenomenon is associated with low-lying coastal and river flood plains. The river floods can be attributed with excessive rainfalls and coastal floods happen due to tropical cyclones. ...

Introduction

Urbanization occurs because of economic development. The urban areas continue to account for an increasing share of the Gross National Product (GNP) in many countries. Australia is one of the most urbanized countries in the world with a majority of its population living in cities. The housing market has had a huge impact on the economy through the investment effect. An increase in the price of houses will result to high investments due to the capital gain expectation, which in turn will lead to economic development. House prices have also had an impact on consumer expenditure (Matteo, 12). The significant rise ...

The primary theme here would be the overgrowth of cities that was characterized by lack of will to achieve balance and harmony. This led to a complete destruction of life and civilization by a variety of internal factors stemming from increasing populations, deteriorating housing conditions, and poor town planning towards the end of the empire. (Mumford) Here, the author lays a convincing argument to back his theme, starting from the Rise of Rome to its decay and disintegration with proper illustrations. The second theme is the manner in which transformations of cities occur as illustrated. Mumford says that cities don’t ...

Comparing Two Lectures

The two lectures that I have chosen to compare are Patrick Fensham’s lecture on Who Designs the Cities? and Ingo Kumic’s lecture on Urban Design and Making the City. Both lectures address the expansion of cities and the design processes which take place behind these improvements. Kumic addresses the question of ‘production vs. promotion’ and ‘form vs. function’ which addresses two cities – New York and Dubai, with regard to these questions. Fensham, however, focuses his lecture entirely on Sydney in Australia with a focus, seemingly, entirely on the production and functionality of the city’s expansion.

In Patrick ...