In January 2016, Sian Berry, who was the Green Party’s candidate for mayor of London launched a campaign to close down London City Airport due to the claims that the airport contributed large amounts of both noise and air pollution to the environment and is detrimental to the neighboring boroughs in London. The plan basically revolved around the idea of closing down the accessible downtown city airport and replacing it with a development project which according to…

The City Beautiful movement subscribes to the philosophy of physical determinism which equates better buildings to better people. The design or beauty of buildings in a city would determine the way in which people would react or behave. Some inner cities have been ridden with poverty and crime due to the lack of funding for development, education, or law enforcement, and this can be attributed to the effects of urban sprawl. In order to address this issue, some…