The City

Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Jacobs sheds light on the thought process behind city planning, how that thought process came to be, and how that thought process is corrupt. Through giving specific examples via different big cities (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, etc.), she weaves in her overall message: that the base of city planning, and therefore cities in general, are a “hoax”; cities are built on a “foundation of nothing”. The founders on which modern city planning stems from all…

day and night. Small towns are way better and safer than big towns. Small towns are quieter, have less crime and have clearer and prettier skies. Small towns are better than big cities because there is less noise. In big towns it is often hard to fall asleep because of the terrible noise outside. In the poem “Big City Noise” it states “People do not seem to hear the noise during the day. But at night, the noise makes it hard to sleep.”…

straightforward and slow repetition to emphasise the sluggish and lethargic attitude that is felt during a typical day in New York City. In contrast to this, when discussing ‘the island of the sea,’ Claude McKay uses a more upbeat and lively rhythm to convey the vitality and liveliness of the island. The language McKay uses further illustrates the contrasting differences that the city and the Island present to people of the time period. For example, the opposing and sluggish language McKay…

Solution to overpopulation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Resettling migrants in suburban areas Imagine yourself together with three other people suffocating in one meter of land . That will be the first step for you to imagine how stifling it would be for the people who are living in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. From a promising land that has high potential for full development, this metropolis has become overpopulated due to the “high level of unregistered rural migration” as well as “ the spread…

employing Blacks in the Inner city. According to Caroline May an author of Brett Bart newsletter stated “While the economy added jobs and the national unemployment rate was relatively unchanged, the African American unemployment rate remained more than twice as high as the white unemployment rate and nearly double the national unemployment rate, according to Labor Department data released Friday”. (May, 2016) When it comes to blacks being unemployed in the Inner City, theory guides the…

In the center of one of the greatest cities in the world. Kansas City, stands a luminous, illustrious and diverse segment of the enormous city. The “Power & Light District”, known for its captivating restaurants, expansive shopping services and boisterous nightlife. Events held in this area are of the most prominent and important additions to the illustrious city. It has become a world-class attraction in its own respect and is looked upon by natives of the city as one of the most significant…

City boys and country boys are two different types of people of happen to lean towards the country side, Although the two types of people may seem similar on the outside, the actual differences are noticeable for the actions of the two are very different. Thus actions are crucial in the classifications of the two types of the people. When a country boy’s truck has a problem, unlike the city boy, they call up some of their friends and they fix their problem. Unlike the city boy who takes his car…

Chicago in 1893: Bright City, Dark Menace In the historical novel “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,” author Erik Larson portrays Chicago as both the city of opportunity and simultaneously as a hotbed of crime and human exploitation (Larson). Chicago in the 1890’s was quite rough because jobs and murders have made the city a place of both danger and opportunity. Numerous murders have led to turmoil in the city. In addition, the changes that…

and a big city might not always be thought of as being similar, but if you dig far enough, those similarities are right under the surface. Titonka, Iowa, is definitely considered a small town. Although small, Titonka has similar qualities to those of a big city. One particular city would be New York City, New York. New York is the largest city, by population, in the United States. These two cities have similar qualities when it comes to people, things to do, and monuments. These two cities also…

In Becky Nicolaides’ chapter titled, “How Hell Moved from the City to the Suburbs”, she gently and respectively rejects the perception of suburbia that most of American’s hold in their minds today. Inside this book, “The New Suburban History”, Nicolaides explains why the great urban scholars and writers of the 1950’s and 1960’s painted the wrong picture of the “hell” suburbia was and is seen today. Her opinion may be difficult to undercover in the beginning of her piece due to her mostly…