Year 10: Urban Renew and Decay

• Aesthetics- is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

This is a sketch of which most designers complete when creating a product such as a house. They draw this to show the outcome and whether or not people like the look of it.

• Safety- the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions

Safety relates to the world as without safety restrictions or safety in general there would be lots of deaths and injuries

• Slums-is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security.

This picture is an example of slum in india, people have to live in slums with sometimes no water, food and very little shelter their whole life

• Decay- the process of gradually becoming inferior

Everything over time decays in some form and as we see above a house that has gradually worn away

• Reconstruction and renewal- the activity of constructing something again and renewal or reclamation is the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

Weather and other extreme conditions can cause destruction in the world of ours and eventually the process of reconstruction will have to come in. Here we have a man reconstructing his house after the roof was removed by a cyclone

• Transport- move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Transport gets people around cities and countries over long distances or short in a small space of time. Above are examples of transport

• Suburbanization- urban growth caused by the creation of new suburbs at the outer edges of the city

Suburbanization can affect cities greatly by creating polution, congestion and other problems. Above we have a new suburb created.

• Environmental factors- are those determinants of disease that are not transmitted genetically. In more basic terms, an environmental factor is a caused, aided, or triggered by the environment.

Environmental factors such as above flooding affect our cities emmensely, loss of house, food and water and even life

• Light and sound- two things that affect our senses such as sight and hearing