Essays on Urbanization

According to Rebecca Solnit in “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche”, walking has been devalued due to suburbs. Solnit asserts that if walking continuous to be devalued, the connection between body, world, and imagination will be lost. She also makes it clear that the suburbs have...

Urbanization is with no doubt an inevitable and major process after the industrial revolution in 18th century. Through the past centuries applying to both first and third world countries, not only have we witnessed expansions of countries, the gradual involvement of modern technology, but how...

The urban modernisation narrative calls to replace the native urban poor with a new class of people who will uphold the world-city ambitions projected by Bangalore’s government. Indeed, India’s land dispossession and booming property investments are not occurring in its city centres, rather on the...

Cities are “spatial manifestations of broader social forces and struggles”, contained and shaped by their built environment. Industrial capitalist modernity has been the driving force behind city development, and the commodification of ‘place’ has resulted into cities being ‘converted into products to be sold in...

Something as complex as Ancient Rome’s urban form cannot easily be defined in such a short word count. The purpose of this assignment is to find the hidden answer to a conundrum which states that architecture arises from time as the result of an individual’s...

Urban farming as the name suggests is the new and modernized way of agriculture. It includes cultivating and distributing the farm produce within and outside the village area. It also includes horticulture, animal husbandry, and agroforestry. It is also termed as urban gardening and urban...

The grove ward in Kingston-upon-Thames has been subject to a change in culture over the past few years as a result of the inflow of students in this urbanised area. I plan to identify the positive and negative social impacts studentification has caused in the...