Essays on City Life

The timespan between the post-colonial era and the early 20th century was marked by a specific rise in the urban culture (‘city life’) in America and there were some uniquely identifying characteristics of this emergence of the city life. This essay aims at exploring the various identifying aspects of the American cities that separated them from the rest of the country and conditions that led to a widening social stratification between the lifestyles of the rich and the poor in these cities. In order to understand the various unique characteristics of the American urban life during the chosen era, ...

When taking the first look at this painting, it is impossible not to notice a vast discrepancy between the positive and the negative space of it. The positive space takes up the major and central part of the painting, particularly pushing the negative space aside in the upper half of the canvas. The disproportionate amount of the positive space against the negative space is prominent in this painting. Therefore, the figure of a woman appears to be instantly grasping one’s attention, and the focus is drawn to the upper half of the woman’s body. This is what ...

There are different discussions concerning city studies. This paper looks into some of the debates on the whole structure of cities; social, economic as well as political organization. It uses four different sources to review city life.

In part two of the book, City Reader, LeGates, Richard T, and Frederic Stout talk about “Urban Culture and Society.” Cities comprise of a sequence of institutions. They include; the economic market segment, the government fort as well as the community. The community or society is considered as the most authentically communicative form of the city population, the city’s local culture ...

The documentary, The City (1939), examines the various phases which were involved in the development of the city. The poverty and grime of city life had its roots in the pastoral New England where the workers started living. It has been shown how the labor of the industrial city gives rise to the metropolis. The way of escaping from the jammed streets of the metropolitan city, the countryside sees the emergence of highways which deface the landscape and thus mar the beauty of nature and the habitat of the surroundings. The film chooses to “promote the founding of ...

Question 1 Identify two passages from the essay where the author uses description effectively. For each passage, explain the impact or effect of this description.

“A thigh-length leather vest covered with fringe and studded with silver, it dates from around 1967, a fanciful time in college-boy fashions.”

In this passage the author uses description effectively, for presenting how his leather vest looked like. This description depicts a fashion item and its effect is visual, as the readers can imagine how the jacket looks, attaching all the elements of the description to the item, for identifying a glamorous and fancy leather jacket. Moreover, this description generates also an immediate association with a person who wears it: a young boy, portly, proud, with a somehow restlessness temper. In the same time, ...

English

Country side living is one way to survive in this economy There are many people who like the quiet country life whiles other prefer the hustling city life. People who live in the country want a piece of mind and want to stay away from city life and all the noise and other pollutions associated with it. People who live in the city also have the availability of commodities and resources, transportation, fast food and many others. The country life is quieter and accommodating compared to the city life. The country life is also a good place to recuperate and ...

A great tragedy that appears in the Latin American cities is the large number of street children, and they appear to bear and be part of more problems within the society. However, focusing on the street children and their role in the urban problems, it appears that the problems lie a little deeper than one can expect (Barry and Huff Stevenson, chapter 9). A Brazilian movie by the name City of God depicts the issue of street children and other problems that emerge from the same. Several planning issues such as a global city, urban crime as well as youth gangs ...

Introduction

The Death and Life of Great American Cities authored by Jane Jacobs was the most influential book of her time. First published in 1961, it made an attack on the objectives and principles of modernist, orthodox planning of the city and rebuilding in the post-war period in the USA. The book was written in reaction to the devastating outcome of the urban refurbishment in the post-war period. She makes a direct attack on what she terms "orthodox" city planning and reconstruction. She points out the failures of modern city planning, arguing how the various institutions of intellectual planning history have ...

Abstract

Introduction Bringing the wilderness in the city is a concept brought by the establishment of public parks. Typically, public parks are characterized by green spaces which are typically filled with a diverse array of plant species that can provide the city with a viable breathing space. In fact, public parks can even host certain kinds of animal species, although such is reasonably regulated for the purpose of keeping city life safe for residents. As a viable space for greenery, public parks provide residents of the city with an escape to the stresses of urban life, which is also compounded by different environmental ...

Chapter Ten of Factory Girls

This essay on Factory Girls will focus on the girls’ experience of living in the village. The journey to return home to the village is more difficult than it is for migrants to leave the village. The time to visit home occurs every year during the Winter Lunar new year. Min returns home to her home village. She brings more gifts for her family in her luggage than her possessions. Chinese on travel generate more trash than anywhere else in the world. Migrant workers clogged the railway system during the Winter Lunar New Year. Those who are better off ...

Between the period of 1880 and 1900, population in cities of the United States started growing at an alarming rate. This growth in population was mostly because of the expansion of industry, the cities in the U.S. grew to 15 million people in the last two decades of the 19th century. Most of the people who helped to increase the growth in population of cities used to be immigrants arriving from all over the world. Population growth and industrial expansion fundamentally and drastically changed the face of most American cities. Slums, air pollution, noise, traffic jams, sanitation and health ...

When discussing about urbanization, an immediate association with industrialization, economic potential and employment opportunities arises. This also brings into discussion a focus on diverse population seeking employment and looking to integrate in the cities’ mechanism. Cities represent places where diverse population coexist, sharing urban transportation, residential properties/rent, or workplaces among many others, and within these places the diversity and difference among people is likely to be tolerated (Pratt-Adams, Maguire & Burn 31). But considering the fact that people with diverse background are activating in the same economy, this implies that they are competing for the same employment opportunities, the same housing ...

Explain why African natives are moving to Johannesburg?

Ndotcheni community had started falling apart. As the grounds could not feed people anymore and the younger population started to migrate to Johannesburg and work in gold mines. There were too many cattle but very little grass to feed them as in those days cattle used to be sign of affluence. Old people used to do farming in the local farms and they did not have the strength or stamina to cultivate properly. Much of the soil had eroded and very rarely anything grew on tribal lands. Children of tribal people starved as there was no milk, vegetable or ...

A culture shock is an experience to a person that usually happens when the individual lives in a strange culture. Everything looks different for that person, be it clothing, religion, religion, values, traditions and food. It thus takes time for the person to get acquainted with the new culture.

When I received a letter offering me a chance in the university, I was very excited by the fact that I could get a glimpse of the city since I had been born and brought up in a rural set up. My past life had been revolving around the rural environment where conservatism was the rule. ...

Ans 1: The unique formula for environmental impact of populations is “I = PAT” equation, where I (Environmental Impact) is the product of Population (P), Affluence (A) and Technology (T). Environmental Impact can be computed as “Environmental Impact = Population x Affluence (or consumption) x Technology”. Ans 2: Mathematics is used by the demographers to predict the population changes and trends, and these changes are summarized in the form of graphs, charts and maps. The important determinants of the population growth are the birth (fertility) and death (mortality) rates. Ans 3: The three major factors in determining population are ...

The literature written during the 1920s brought to life America's fixation of rising to the top within social ranks. The themes and ideals presented in novels and poetry during the 1920s were a depiction of the fantasy that was the American dream. The fantasy, often associated with leaving rural life and joining the ranks of the modern city, was one that most people can still relate to today. Literature in the 1920s highlighted this and offered it as an antidote to rural life. In the twentieth century some American modernist’s decided to blend the concept of pastoral tradition with ...

Jay McLeod’s book demonstrates that racism is an issue which dominates proceedings in more ways than one. The issue of social mobility is discussed extensively in the book as it shows that class consciousness is still very much rife and intrinsic amongst us. McLeod comes up with all the sociological concepts which are part and parcel of our thinking and these include class structure, poverty, the dehumanization of work, etc. “I ain’t going to college, who wants to go to college? I’d end up getting a shitty job anyway” (p. 3) This is what an ...

Question 1

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of Henry VIII and mother of Mary 1. They got married in 11th July, 1509 but got divorced in 1533. Henry secretly married Anne Boleyn as his second wife in 1533. Unfortunately, Anne was found guilty of being unfaithful and was executed in 1536. Later on, Henry VIII married Jane Seymour as his third wife but she died afterwards. After Jane’s death, Henry married Anne of Cleves as his fourth wife. After six months, she was divorced. Kathryn Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII. After two years in ...

Concerns about health and hygiene figure prominently in modernist urbanism and urban planning. Using Ebenezer Howard's Garden City and Le Corbusier's Contemporary City for Three Million as your point of focus, explore how this might be the case. What particular health concerns vis-a-vis the metropolis did these urban theorists have? How did they believe they could remedy the "ills" of modern urban life? What specific spatial strategies did they adopt in an effort to execute their ideas? What role, if any, did technology play for them? What are the major simiarities and/or differences between the Garden City model, as ...

How does urbanization in the United States differ from that of other places discussed in chapter 2? Identify three specific differences and explain their significance for urban and suburban development in the United States .

Urbanization in the United States

The United States differs from other countries such as India and China in the way urbanization takes place and how it has evolved over the years. Principally this is due to the fact that there are a large proportion of immigrants in the US who have always been assimilated into society rather quickly and at several stages at once. Another factor which obviously affects the ...

Introduction

Arguably, at some point in our entire life, we will all ask how it is to life in either the country of the city. The only way to the solution to such a question is experiencing the lifestyles of both places. Indeed, life is full of learning curves. To some, living in the city is more advantageous, while for others the city is the most dangerous place to be. Currently, globalization has made the life in the city better as compared to that in the country.

Pros of living in the city

Certainly, life in the city is very fast and comfortable. The city offers more ...