The City

you want to see something special. What if one can’t find anything special. Well I know if you go to Kansas City we have fountains. We have over two hundred fountains around Kansas City. One might think that Kansas City is very large but once you get to know the city it is very small. Whenever I go to visit these fountains they bring me joy,and happiness. The first fountain made in Kansas City was on 15th and The Paseo, but was later destroyed. Although later that year George Kessler created…

Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus discuss the ideal city. After discussing the foundations of the city, Socrates proposes three “shocking” practices. First, that men and women should should exercise naked together to promote shamelessness concerning the body. Next, “sexual communism” or non-monogamous relationships and the common upbringing of children to discourage personal and familial interest. Lastly, and possibly the most shocking, that the city should be ruled by Philosopher Kings. He…

As a reaction, in the U.S.A. Daniel Hudson Burnham initiated “City Beautiful Movement” which brought into effect civic engagement through the construction of “humane” structures. Daniel typified the new kind of architect and planner who felt that large scale and rational planning initiatives were need of the hour…

Alex Marshall states throughout the book “How Cities Work” that in order for any city to be a healthy it is crucial to have the three legged stool. The three legged stool is composed of politics, economics and transportation. In transportation it gives us the most visual and dynamic in the way a place is shaped. That’s why places such as Silicon Valley, Jackson Heights and John Jay community all differ from each other. Adding on to this, the way our transportation systems are built and the…

On the topic of Jacob’s ideas to discourage criminal behavior, she is an open critic of the common theory of improving cities’ vibrancies by making room for more green space before considering whether the new parks would be properly integrated . If a park is located in “a low-traffic area such as the residential edge of a neighborhood, ” misallocated green space can become “havens for transient populations or criminal activity ,” and become the type of place where teenagers go to abuse drugs or…

Sex and the City mostly contains various amount of scenes of the women having sex and talking about sex like men. This demonstrates the double standard that men are able to sleep around and act so dominant without society disagreeing or judging, but if women do the same, they will immediately be considered as “dirty.” Therefore, the women throughout the show create a good visual to the audience on their different perspectives of sex, and make it pretty clear on their mindset that casual sex is…

This is an area of a city where poor people live and buildings are in bad condition. The district or city that’s inhabited by people of the lower class and another term of a slum is (ghetto). In my own experience, when I came here in September 26, 1990, from the Dominican Republic, with my family. I used to live in front of a project called Hope Garden, where a lot of low class people live. I used to see them smoking marijuana in front of kids and spending all day in front of the building…

layout by the Altar of the Earth. From the north came cold winter and marauding hordes bent on destruction; its color was black. The emperor faced away from it, and in the northern sector of the city, confined behind the palace, would be situated dubious activities including commerce and its…

Vatican or Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. “Holy See” is the city’s nickname that comes from the Latin Sancta Sedes, meaning “Holy Chair.” Vatican City is the capital of itself because it does not have a capital because of its small size, and number of citizens. The official languages in Vatican City are Italian, French and Latin. This country is the headquarters of Roman Catholicism; the Roman Catholic religion. Vatican’s population is about 800 people, but 451 have…

The aztecs had a town that can be found using geography.The aztec home is what now is known as Mexico City. In addition the aztecs used an unusual currency.The aztecs valued cocoa beans because it was currency from aztecs to mayans.For example an egg was three beans,a rabbit was thirty,and cloth was a range of sixtyfive to three-hundred. Now let us talk about an aztecs daily life.Every fifty-two years all aztecs smash their belongings.They traded pottery.By the way aztecs gave tribute for a…