Designing A More Inclusive City By Allison Arief

Designing a More Inclusive City
The article by Allison Arief on the need to build an inclusive city that accommodates the needs of the people gives us a good example to demonstrate the presence of the argumentative aspects in logic. To understand her arguments well, we must delve into the deeper meaning of the article. The first logical fallacy that is articulated in the article is that people tend to sit where there are places to sit. The author goes on to support this claim by citing different premises. For example, claiming that keeping people away from places where they can sit makes has become a common practice in the cities, it lacks to provide logical reasoning why this should be considered as an important aspect. This an example of …show more content…
These claims cannot be scientifically proven as true given the life expectancy of a country and city is dependent on several factors that do not necessarily relate to space such as the state of health care, availability of basic needs, provision of balanced diet among others. Claiming therefore that the life expectancy of the city has declined as a result of the poorly designed city is an example of slippery slope fallacy in the article. Again, since the city dwellers are not directly involved in the development of the city infrastructures such as buildings, it is not the responsibility of the residents to figure out how the city is developed. Again, this is hasty generalization fallacy since the author offers inadequate evidence to support the conclusion made. The author also employs pathos to win the audience by saying that “you can kill a man with.". This is intentionally aimed at describing what would happen when a lot of apartments are built leaving no or little space for the locals to occupy or perform their outdoor …show more content…
It goes ahead to claim that presence of flurry and ugly laws has been targeting specific individuals within the city (Arieff). The claim also supports the fallacy that just like in the World War I, individuals were forced to be related to their landlords and kinship by blood. This was to enable residents to acquire a recommendation letter from their kinships. There are many variants of these claims that aim at justifying the fact the newly upcoming cities have lost an important aspect of involving the residents in the development plans has impacted in opposition from the