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Urban Planning Around Research Industries
When urban planners talk about master planned communities, so often they will look for meaningful high paying jobs to support the citizens of the community. Of course, if you were designing a master planned community or you were an urban planner and knowing a thing or two about the up and coming high-tech fields, you might consider various research and development companies.
Economic development association executives often consider the recruitment of high-tech firms with high paying jobs to the region. This insures that they are not caught behind the eight ball with a dying industry. In many parts of our nation manufacturing which was once over 30 percent of our industry has now shrunk to under 17 percent. In fact, those regions which have even a lower percentage of manufacturing often do better economically than their counterparts.
Research and development type companies offer quite a bit, as they also draw in the fairy strong small-business supply chain added additional jobs in the service sector adds support type businesses. Thus, it makes a lot of sense to consider leading edge high-tech firms in urban planning. Research companies often create new business, spin offs and attract venture capitalists to your region, which inevitably will finance other deals and bring in more companies in the latest and greatest next new thing. This will ensure that your region will stay economically viable for years to come. Consider this in 2006. Read the rest of this entry »
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Some Aspects to Consider in Urban Planning
Among the numerous aspects to consider when planning an urban settlement, the legal issues of boundaries will be major considerations. During the development of a master planned town in Montgomery County of Texas, the Woodlands lawyer legal services would have been vital in establishing boundaries, for example, with the counties Shenandoah and Conroe. If it is appointed The Woodlands attorney would have worked with at least one Houston attorney when annexation of the community’s portions that were part of the adjacent counties was under discussion.
As a concept of development, community planning has been done even in ancient times in Mesopotamia, Central America, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, to mention a few places. The Roman system of planning has been the most understood, since it was the most preserved, although planning has been evident in the ancient cities of Ur, Babylon, Miletus and Alexandria. The Inca, Aztec and Chinese civilizations have had planned cities and communities as well.
Although urban planning is not a major concern of ordinary people, understanding the aspects considered in urban planning could help us appreciate our community better, and perhaps even advance suggestions to make it more conducive to living and residency. At the very least it might reduce our tendency to complain about its aspects we do not like, understanding that perhaps there had been no choice then. Read the rest of this entry »
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The New American Urbanism
American readers are going to be thrilled by this: somebody out there is trying to build a new America – without Americans, that is. And, to be more specific, it is the European Union (EU), Putin’s New Russia and Capitalist China the ones that are trying to do it. They all call this trend the ‘New American Urbanism’.
The New American Urbanism is what city planners, architects, civil engineers, developers, realtors, appraisers and bankers throughout the United States refer to as simply ‘Urbanism’. It is the way so familiar to us all in which cities, towns and communities have been conceived, planned and built. There is nothing new about it, since Urbanism in the United States and to a lesser extent Canada is a phenomenon that dates all the way back to the Seventies. It is just the very practical way North American cities are structured: a mix of shopping, residential and light industrial districts effectively connected by a system of boulevards, roads, streets and alleys. Residential neighborhoods are comprised of mixed-use housing clustered with schools, sports centers, wide sidewalks and essentially with everything at close range from home.
Business is carried out in the city centre areas or in downtowns, with the typical characteristic skyline of concrete high-rise and low-rise buildings. One would not think that all this would cause such an uproar. But it has. There are three specific reasons for the rest of the world to all of sudden rediscover America and to put it (again) under the microscope: time, money and economy of scale. The EU, Russia and China all face the common dilemma of having to relocate millions and millions of people on relatively short notice and share the common denominator of minimizing social cost and maximizing affordability. Read the rest of this entry »
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