“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.” -Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking.
Cities provide many services such as
hospitals, parks, housing, transportation routes, police and fire. In the photos
above, the old Arima police station is standing alongside the modern station. In 2011, a budget allocation of $1.6 billion
had been given to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service which was used for
construction projects in 2012. Although many
of the old stations were demolished, the old Arima Station still stands,
showing the clear difference in time and form of place then and now. From the
pictures above once can see huge differences between the two buildings. The old
building consisted of wooden shutters and iron doors while the modern building
has glass windows and doors. The newly constructed stations provides a two-storey building with
additional space for offices and upgraded property rooms with the installation
of shelving and racking storage.
As
the population in towns and cities continue to grow so too must the services in
order to facilitate demands. The planning of construction and refurbishment of
services within a city is an integral part in the study of urban morphology.
According
to Denyse Renne in"Police Service Gets $1.6b Share", twenty
million dollars was used for the purchasing of vehicles and equipment, which
included marked sedans and sport utility vehicles "required to adequately
support the operations and facilitate the implementation of the 21st century
policing initiative
References
Ministry of National Security.
n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.
Renne, Denyse. "Police
Service Gets $1.6b Share." Trinidad Express Newspapers:. N.p.,
12 Oct. 2011. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.
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