The Cosmopolitan canopy is written by Elijah Anderson, and is about race and ethnic relations. In this novel, Elijah Anderson explains how the “canopies” that he explores in contemporary Philadelphia support pluralistic embrace of social difference most readily. Over the span of an astounding thirty years of observation, Anderson attempts to convey an image of how people “live race”, in ways that challenge old form`s of inequality. This book relates to Racial and Ethnic relations because it shows what racial and ethnic groups such as African-Americans dealt with during this time in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Anderson describes spaces in the city where people characterized by wide a range of social differences interact in a familiar way on neutral…
In Elijah Anderson’s The Cosmopolitan Canopy, he delves into the diverse city of Philadelphia and observes how people of different ethnicities and backgrounds experience and interact with each other, as well as the city itself. Many areas of the city are segregated, whether it be by socioeconomic status, race, or background. However, within the city, there are many areas of harmony. Elijah Anderson calls these pockets, “cosmopolitan canopies”. A cosmopolitan canopy is viewed as public space in every sense of the word, a place that is free from individual claim and a hub for civility and inclusion.…
In Becky Nicolaides’ chapter titled, “How Hell Moved from the City to the Suburbs”, she gently and respectively rejects the perception of suburbia that most of American’s hold in their minds today. Inside this book, “The New Suburban History”, Nicolaides explains why the great urban scholars and writers of the 1950’s and 1960’s painted the wrong picture of the “hell” suburbia was and is seen today. Her opinion may be difficult to undercover in the beginning of her piece due to her mostly positive regard to Louis Wirth, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and William White. She sums up the views of these four by stating, “They felt that if the ‘right’ physical environment could be created, a healthy community might come of it--…
The two sites that I decided to use are the Shield’s Library Courtyard and the Memorial Union Quadrangle. The reason I chose the library’s courtyard is that I always like to go and spend time there, I feel focused when I am there. It’s quiet, relaxing and peaceful. In comparison to the quad I go there to socialize and think out loud, but I cannot feel that I am focused because I feel that there is always a large number of people occupying it at the same time so it feels more crowed. I chose both locations to show how they can be, similar in ways but at the same time they could be very different.…
One clear idea from the novel about community is that each community has it’s own ideas, beliefs, and goals. There is a clear divide between the Socs and the Greasers, each community suited with its own personalities. The author painted a picture within the text when…
Before reading 1984, my opinion on number seven “Society would be safer if we had security cameras in public places to catch potential criminals.” Was no. After reading the book, my opinion was persuaded to think otherwise. We still need cameras in public places such as malls, stores, outside in the streets, lights and parking lots, but we do not need them in private places like homes and restrooms. In the book 1984, the telescreens where everywhere, just one unusual movement that you made could have gotten you arrested.…
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter,” said Abraham Lincoln in a speech on May 19, 1856 in Illinois. However, with a world that is vastly more connected than the world in 1856, we can digitally connect the American public with those politicians who represent them in hopes to create a more informed American citizen. With this increased connectivity, we need to have a conversation about the proper uses of technologies, including the time and the place for proper use of our beloved devices. In addition to upgrading our democracy for the Internet Age, as Pia Mancini advocates, we need to redefine our ideas of public and common space as well as public engagement overall to include the new etiquettes and realities of the Internet Age.…
Place is needed to stabilize and orient us as families, community members and citizens. I agree with McClay and McAllister that the connections to a physical place are important. If we no longer hold importance to place then we will no longer have a sense of identity as members of a community. Place plays a necessary role in building the basis for people to find individual identity. A place that one identifies as “home” serves as “an anchor for our memories”(Solnit 139).…
Durkheimian Analysis of Heat Wave Six hundred and fifty-eight. This is the number of American citizens who suffer from heat-related deaths each year.1 To put that into perspective, it is coincidentally the exact number of students suffering in Virginia Tech’s air-condition-lacking Slusher Residence Hall.2 During the summer of 1995, Chicago was hit with one of the deadliest heat waves on record. In the nine-day span of July 12 to 20, more than seven-hundred weather-related deaths were recorded.3 Through research for his 2002 book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Eric Klinenberg discovered a direct connection between a neighborhood’s poverty level and heat-related body count.4 This realization opens the door for an even greater…
The writer looked deeply to the effects of modernist principles of neighborhood of the American cites. She critiqued what has been built in cites and how a lot of buildings were useless. Jacob stated how a lot of spaces are empty and not well designed for people to interact with. Moreover, she explained the urban plan organize people without caring about people just to make organize cites and make perfection in shape, which means that people are far from nature.…
1. Metropolitan Vison – Values and polices: To provide the services needed to strengthen communities certain values and polices must be present. Maintaining polices while striving for excellence fundamentally depends on the set values. Values strengthens the ability to solve solutions and challenge policies. Values are important because they allow meanings to be applied to help understand the purposes in life.…
Though I have always lived in Hockessin, Delaware, I greatly appreciate the variety of cultures that I can experience in the surrounding community. Growing up, while I immensely enjoyed the traditions and festivals of Chinese culture, I never fully understood the meaning behind my cultural heritage, and only recently did I learn from my parents the history in each celebration. Similarly, I greatly enjoy the multiple cultural festivals in the surrounding community, and as I have learned and found wonderment in each one, I hope to discover the same awe while experiencing the cultural diversity at…
In essence, it is important to remember global origins to achieve community action. This was one of the earliest realizations of the Japanese Americans, for they began in 1986 to try and preserve part of Little Tokyo through community action. It was the Little Tokyo Community Development Advisory Committee that campaigned and established Little Tokyo’s historical district on East First Street. Some of the oldest Japanese American businesses in the country are on First Street, and so the rich culture plays a big role in establishing a sense of community in Little Tokyo. (“The Paradox of Dispersal”, Dean S. Toji and Karen Umemoto)…
The north, south and east side of the park are very large sidewalk areas that are capable of holding large groups of people at a time. The most obvious of these is the south part of the park where there are two sets of steps that lead up into the park, this is the popular meeting spot for when protest take place here in Union Square. These sides of the park are meaningful as they have the ability to facilitate large groups of people and act as signifying objects that carry meaning with them. These spaces, as seen in (Fig. 2, 3, 4) are open and clear of any barriers making them ideal spots to carry out activities.…
Geography is the study of the interaction between people within their environment at a place. It includes three factors: space, place, and environment. In this paper, I will first explain what those three factors entail. Then, I will relate the factors to Portland in detail.…