GEOGRAPHY OF URBAN DIVERSITY Read Michael Conzen’s ‘The Impact of Industrialism and Modernity on American Cities, 1860-1930’ and then respond to the prompt. This reading is divided into three sections: SHAPING A NATIONAL CITY SYSTEM, THE TRANSFORMATION OF SPACE and THE MOUNTING PROBLEMS OF URBANISM. Briefly summarize the main topics/trends/events happening in each of those […]
How does she explain the transformative relationship between malls and neoliberal urbanism in Manila and what are the consequences of this transformation?
Question to answer : In Jasmine Trice’s City of Screens, she notes that “the mall has become the privatized space of social life in the country” of the Philippines. What does she mean by this? How does she explain the transformative relationship between malls and neoliberal urbanism in Manila and what are the consequences of […]
How can the needs of women be amplified and brought into the design and implementation of public spaces?
This requires inclusive and long-term perspectives that respond to the question: how can the needs of women be amplified and brought into the design and implementation of public spaces?A tool for that is feminist urbanism, understood as a strategic framework for bringing women into the process of urban planning while empowering them – and it’s rapidly growing […]