Hutter Experiencing Cities: Chapter Analysis

Chapter 9 of Hutter Experiencing cities is titled “Experiencing strangers and the Quest for Public Order”. In this chapter he explains to us how the public realm is something that is quite wonderful, a quest for social order in keep a balance, and my personal favorite…flashmobs. The jist of this chapter was to explain to us, the reader, how in the condensed major cities its inevitable that, unless you never leave your place of residence, human contact is bound to happen. Hutter states that there are 3 three realms of city life. Those being private realm, parochial realm, and public realm. These realms are the basics of all human interactivity. The private realm is one that is most commonly witnessed. I consider this the most basic form of human contact because it involves close friends and family. I feel that people live in major cities because they thrive off human contact and theres no better place to make this happen then big cities. My Aha moment came during the section titled Cheers “where everybody knows your name”. It discussed how local watering holes bring people of all different backgrounds together. “In a third place, people develop a sense of community and their place in it…a community interact with each other and come to know the ties that they share in common”. …show more content…
Two of the main sections in the article discussed paths, edges and districts. Paths are exactly what you expect them to be, Side walks and pathways pedestrans travel on to maneuver the cities. Edges are the boundaries between two kinds of areas. Most commonly used as lateral references. Edges can be used as references for everything from streets to water. Districts are a little more complicated to explain. The idea of a district is its an imaginary idea that people can use as reference point and occasionally a physical object can be used as a