Metropolis

sustainability comes at the cost of absolute reduction and diminishment of our current ways of life as we know them, we instead need to accept a more modern take on what is more sustainable practice as a species. The pros of living in a dense urban metropolis include: extraordinary shared transportation, increased compactness of operations, reduced individual carbon footprints over this area. A modern day “green” lifestyle is becoming less about what we do, but instead how we do those things…

Introduction Every city across the globe has its own characteristics and features that make it distinct from any other city. The characteristic distinctions may be realized in terms of city demographics, city administration structures, geographical locales, infrastructure and public facility configuration, and economic systems, among other city aspects and factors. Employing data collection and high level thinking skills, research is carried out to compare and contrast two Asian megacities. In…

fast developing city and their childhood memories. Unlike the street artists in Melbourne, the local artists knew well of the destined short life of their work and that they can hardly outrun the urban management teams. The pace in this oriental metropolis is fast to catch up to and it is difficult to leave a lasting footprint. A company acquired the permission to redevelop the district in January and a massive demolishing team arrived shortly. Most murals had been destroyed overnight along…

wrote on of his most notable and influential works: Black Metropolis. St. Clair Drake collaborated with Horace R. Clayton to perform a mass survey utilizing data collected by the Works Progress Administration. In this book, St. Clair Drake and Clayton study the emigration of African Americans across the country, the social structure of the African American communities, and most importantly, the inequality caused by segregation. Black Metropolis was well ahead of its time in the way it exposes…

In his essay, “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” George Simmel, a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic, discusses the psychological consequences of metropolitan life and the struggle to preserve one’s individuality. This essay is something that I have read in my social…

A new popular urban architecture style was flourishing the cities in the United States called Art Deco. The foundation of the modern age movement started in Paris in the 1920’s. Architectures acknowledge the structures where they defined it as straight lines that followed cubic proportions. (Gebhard 4) Art Deco was represented as a combination of modernization and architect traditions. What identifies Art Deco and separates it from other building is the ornament, sculptures and the surface…

The term "Modernism" refers to activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms were becoming ill-fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. Modernists often use ideas and methods which are very different from those used in the past. The following essay includes a total of 6 readings which can be summarized into 3 categories: Modernism in European countries, Modernism in Soviet Russia and…

the issue of immigration and integration of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans after the Second World War in this city. Fernandez tells the story of the growth of these important communities and their difficult integration in the political dynamics of the metropolis of the Midwest. Figures and anecdotes, the author, who is of Mexican descent, details the problems that both communities have had to contend to be able to forge their own identity and political space for themselves. Both Mexicans and Puerto…

Victorian Era, London became a thriving metropolis; its population grew by millions, the economy was booming, and the streets were hustling and bustling with excitement. Because Victorian London became a place of growing wealth and development, many popular Victorian novelists, such as Charles Dickens, reflected on the advancing city in their novels to show readers and citizens the immense amount of change present. Victorian London was an exciting and dynamic metropolis with many positive…

Meena Alexander, using rhetoric, creates a paradox with stark contrast to underline her ambivalence towards her identity. Conflicted between her present identity and her old identity she has left in India, Alexander portrays each with different and opposing rhetorical devices. She begins with extended metaphors to illustrate her conflictions, comparing her new identity to that of glass; using such words as splintered, shards, and fractured to connotate glass and all of its frailty. She sees…