City of Men

fearless, womanizing men as heroic role models for American men. Since then men have continuously been portrayed as independent,…

Even in a job that does not reflect masculinity, this rebel photographer can express masculine traits by defying authority to capture an impeccable snapshot. He operates under the social media alias Vic Invades, exploring the uncharted territories of New York City as an artist. Upon watching the brief documentary featuring this urban explorer on the front page of the New York Times, it struck me as a key example of masculinity in an artistic profession. The documentary first depicts Vic’s group…

Within minutes more and more men begin to mow their lawns all across that neighborhood. It is human nature not to want to be out done by one another. One man beings to clean up his lawn and those around him begin to follow. From that image comes a theory, the mowed lawn theory, that if one person or a community were to outwardly change that the people and areas around them would look at their mess and want to change their ways as well. How does this effect the epidemic of fatherlessness? What…

His father wanted him to get good greats in school but, his illness did not allow him to do that at the time. Gacy eventually dropped out of high school not being able to fully get approval of his father. He decided to move out of his parents’ house not wanting to deal with if father’s behavior much longer. He moved to a different part of the city and began to take part in his community. He joined the Junior Chamber of Commerce where he organized groups and ideas that benefited the general…

redistributing his city with an emphasis on the center of the city and on the complete other end of the spectrum Frank Lloyd Wright was eliminating the city center completely. Broadacre City was detailed in Wright’s 1932 book The Disappearing City. The book was called the disappearing city because Wright believed he was living in a time when the great urban centers ceased to exist anymore (Fishman 122). Broadacre City is an expansive city with no core, an endless suburbia. It is a new kind of…

A bustling modern city seems to be the most exciting place to be. Or so it seems. While the city itself seems colorful and vibrant, these modern industrial cities tend to be devoid of “humans.” Surely, humans do exist and they constitute the city population, but city-dwellers are often stuck in the mundane, boxed life of an urban city, deprived of their individuality. Shanghai, a city where “One Evening in the Rainy Season” and “Sealed Off” are set, is no exception. To Shanghai residents,…

Modernization and the changing nature of work contribute to new ideas about women’s and men’s roles in American society during the 19th century by developing the city into a place of new job opportunities for men, and allowing women to gain a new authority at home, with new opportunities or activities to engage in. These changes were both positive for women and men because they no longer had to depend on a farm living life. Since they were plenty of new jobs opportunities outside their homes and…

Asef Bayat in his article “City inside out” has proposed that cities like Cairo and Beirut are undergoing through a new form of urban public space, where, poor people tend to reappropriate the space from rich in Middle East region. Such urbanized public space’s new version, where, public-ness levels of the city consider is as “inside out” in literal meaning, where poor public is left with no option other than ensuring a heavy outdoor presence on city streets and where rich people’s response is…

Comparing and contrasting William Penn’s plan for Philadelphia and Pierre L’Enfant’s plan for Washington D.C. When early colonial America began to form, a city plan was not always drafted in order to begin building, but when city plans were created, they reflected the needs of those who planned to settle the area. The city plan for Washington D.C. as well as the plan for Philadelphia serve as good examples because of the early documentation available from the architects, which details the…

was a major social and economic transformation and as well as a technological advancement yet Western Europe maintained ingenuity. Changes and Continuities included technology (changes in technology), urbanization (a change from people living in rural area to urban area) working conditions (poor working conditions remained the same) and women role (a light shift in women roles within society, it changed from the typical stay at home mum to a working mum, however despite participation in the…