Looking at a Growing City :: essays papers

Looking at a Growing CityIn her lecture, Ms. Gretchen Schneider gave an in depth study of the changing uses of space in the development of the city of Boston. Her study involved a look at the history and region of the city and how they informed the decisions made regarding development and change in the city. In Jack Aherns lecture, he discussed landscape scenarios, which included a look at the different spatial concepts of landscape planning. Both lectures included information that could be extracted and applied when analyzing the development of any city. In this paper, I will be applying the ideas they presented in my own brief analysis of the development of my hometown, Nashua, NH.Nashua, New Hampshire is a small city of 175,000 people that lies on the border of Massachusetts. It began as an Indian fishing liquidation along the Nashua River and with time and the construction of the Daniel Webster (Main) street, it grew to be a small factory town. Around the civil war times , Main Street became the briny retail district as it was close to the textile factories that ran along the river. Small neighborhoods developed at either end of Main Street along with a railroad transport west of the center of town. At this stage of Nashuas development, it most closely resembled a contained interdigitation. The community and buildings were located in the central part of town, with a hardly a(prenominal) neighborhoods that ran outside the boundaries.By about 1900, the city had begun to expand in all four directions, still fairly contained by the wilderness and the outskirts still resembled the interdigitation. BY the 1940, main other main roads were built, stemming from Main Street, and there was a great expansion, and the fingers of the interdigitation grew long, stretching into more of the wild land. Owners of the farms near town sold their land and go to these areas on the western part of town, cleared the woods and built them selves huge farms and orchar ds. The neighborhoods north and south of the town got larger and expanded to east some. The growth of the city was becoming fast and town officials decided to begin claiming public grounds and building parks. It was at this time that Greeley Park was built that contained about a agora quarter mile of land and Holman stadium was built at the northern part of town.