Is population density compatible with public safety? This is a question often asked with the increasing effects of carbon footprints in metropolitan areas that needs to be addressed by a reduction in driving and vehicular mileage. What comes to the fore is the need to design a densely populated, compact and walkable community into an [...]
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When it Comes to Condos, it’s All About the Storage Space
Many baby boomers across the U.S. are considering downsizing from their urban McMansion into a luxury downtown condominium. Their desire to downsize is fueled by the characteristics associated with urban condo living such as low maintenance, luxury amenities, nearby fine dining & shopping, less time in traffic, etc. As much as these benefits of condo [...]
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Digital Media
Digital Media is slowly integrating itself as a part of our daily life with the inception of eye catching and at times entertaining mediums of information. Digital and programming systems are implemented in order to produce a properly functioning urban space rendered with digital media. Look around and you will surely get an eye full [...]
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The Urban Revolution
The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience. Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered [...]
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World’s Worst Urban Spaces: Cheltenham
The latest addition to the digital urban reader contributed book on the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces comes from Dawid Gorny who has recently moved to Cheltenham Spa. Wikipedia describes Cheltenham as a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, England, near Gloucester and Cirencester. The town has a population of 110,013 (2001 census) [...]
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Rural homes ‘costlier than urban’
Rural homes are less affordable than urban ones, with average prices more than seven times the typical local wage, a bank has reported. House price inflation has pushed the average rural property value up to �246,104, which is �30,000 above that of a town house, Halifax said. Carrick, Cornwall, was deemed the least affordable rural [...]
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What Does It Mean to Live in the City?
I tried living in the country for a while and I have to admit; I take my hats off to those that can do it year in and year out because it isn’t for everyone. I had always been to the country, special trips for school, holidays and vacationing with family, but had never really [...]
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Green roofs start to sprout on urban homes
New York – Every time it rained, Majora Carter cringed. “I lived in mortal terror whenever I thought it was going to rain,” Dr. Carter says, remembering how the rainwater seeped from the street into her Bronx brownstone. Then she and her husband, James Burling Chase, realized that the source of the problem wasn’t on [...]
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Purchasing a Condominium
If you are planning to buy a condominium for yourself or a gift for your future spouse then here are some tips you should consider before purchasing one: 1.) Ask the developer a copy of the floor plan before you check on the actual unit, so that you can choose the design and decide what [...]
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Why Urban Rental Prices Fall
Mainly because of the loss of so many jobs that is rendering more and more people unable to pay their rent. The economy is a general indicator of the health of the real estates business and with rising jobless people comes a rise in vacancies and people are scrambling to get their empty properties occupied. [...]
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