London Is The Most Eclectic Megalopolis Of The West

In the opening chapters of ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, the Soho area of Victorian London is described negatively and disapprovingly, compared to other areas of Victorian London An example of this is in the chapter of ‘The Carew Murder Case’, where the Soho area is

The city, Toronto in this case, presents a web of streets and geographical space that threatens to lock its citizens in a certain demarcated way of life and conduct. The four key characters in this narrative - Tuyen, Carla, Jackie, and Oku - each feel blocked in by the constrained locality that they have been born into and each attempts to escape it in his own way.: Tuyen by being an artist, Carla by being a courier; Oku by being a student and Jackie by working in a store. The first two not only attempt to escape by means of their profession using their profession to either flee the spaces and squares (by bike) or transcend it via imagination (by art) but they also adopt profession that go against societal expectations. These societal expectations were created by, and exist within the geographical space they live in. Toronto of the late 20th century had an internalized set of expectations for immigrants and its citizens. The parents of the characters succumbed to it. The protagonists, however, resolved to step out of their boundaries and most of them succeeded.

An essential need of the city and urban life, for bringing people together and seeing architecture as a social form. (147-148 writing on cities)

Hyde’s apartment was set in Soho, a very sleazy, corrupted part of London at the time. Living in Soho links Hyde was the lowest levels of society: prostitutes, foreigners and primitive, immoral behaviour. Also, Soho had eerie weather- ‘a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven’, representing the malicious crimes being committed and the blocking out of God. This reflects the mysterious, depraved attributes of Hyde’s

New York City has been in a constant state of change since the 1970’s. Evolving from a state of art and decrepitness to a glistening city of consumption. Yet in Jeremiah Moss’ book, Vanishing New York, the city did not “evolve” for the locals who breathed and lived in the city– the ones who made New York City the place to be, but rather for the big businesses who lure in the tourists who change the city into some kind of sister city to their middle American hometown. Moss uses the same ideas bell hooks wrote about in her “Eating the Other” essay, in that New Yorkers, the “other”, in all their artsy, queer, and ethnic ways are used to “spice up” the city, to make it a place worth coveting so that the rich and elite can sell a watered down/hollow

During 2000, the New London city passed a growth program that, in the expressions of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, was considered to bring forth an approximate of about 1,000 employments, to augment tax as

The world has been evolving as quickly as the population has grown. As the years progressed, the habitual lifestyle has transformed from spread out house and land living to city and suburban occupation. Along with the living style, cities have progressed from just roads and buildings to multifunctional spaces with copious possibilities. Federation Square in the ‘heart of the city’ is an example of how a space in the city vastly contributes to the visual culture of Melbourne. Times Square in New York also displays how what was previously an intersection of roads, has been transformed into a visual landmark. Melbourne city had always lacked a functional public space ever since its birth.

Preventative measures are not good enough either: “London, [Perowne’s] small part of [the world], lies wide open, impossible to defend, waiting for its bomb, like a hundred other cities” (286). Perowne, and by extension McEwan, conclude that the only effective response is love and empathy. Mimicking adages cemented in posterity, McEwan imparts to his readers Arnold’s message in his final stanza that love is the only way to approach “a darkling plain” (291), a new era of incertitude and tremendous possibilities. Empathy, as shown through Perowne’s compassionate response to Baxter’s intrusion, functions as an imperative that people need to think beyond the nearsighted landscape of the quotidien. Much like Perowne’s nerve endings “peeled and stripped clean” (280), McEwan argues that the inward-focused attitude present in society must be left behind, replaced with a society sensitively responds to its

In Jeff Ferrell’s “Tearing Down the Streets Adventures in Urban Anarchy”, it introduced themes of image of the city, rights to the city, and given different examples of anarchist activities in urban environments. In my opinion, I enjoyed the book’s narratives on urban cities trying to clean the streets of unwanted acts and people; along with the collective movements attempting to retake the open space and streets. However, Ferrell’s actions in his daily life to retake space are questionable. Ferrell considers cities are changing their images by undergoing “Disneyfication” (Ferrell, 2001, p. 8) with unnecessary security, planned entertainment and making it ‘beautiful’. Ultimately, it forces authorities to restrict and isolate unwanted acts

If somebody was given the chance to go to a random place. What location would they go? Well maybe they would go to London, England to eat a nice course meal. Maybe to visit some of its finest Attractions. Or to relax at a nice hotel. The beautiful place with a relaxing feel with hallways that are so complex, it can get you lost. The amazing design with a relaxing feel with some exquisite food. A cozy family feel with an elegant. This way to relax after a nice way to end a day of traveling.London, England is one of the most classic ,dazzling, diverse cities in the world

London: Banner of Truth

Going to King Hall for the first time prior to this assignment was new to me. Prior to enrolling in the Charter College of Education (CCOE) I was a Biology Major. Most of my classes were held in Salazar Hall or La Kretz Hall, so I was unfamiliar with the other side of campus let alone King Hall. My first observation was parking on the other side of campus and walking up those long dreaded stairs just to get to King Hall. Although, I have to admit it is nice having most of my classes in the same building where the CCCOE offices are, the walk from my car to the building is a long walk.

As the narrator of “London” walks the streets, he hears a variety of different sounds. The state of London is so terrible that he can hear their “manacles” (line 8) in every “cry of every Man” (5) and in “every voice” (7). Child labor is tragic, but the “chimney-sweeper’s cry” (9) “appalls” (10) the Church, rather pitying it. The government also does nothing to ease the “Soldier’s sigh” (11). The institutions in control

Engels illustrates the layout of the city of Manchester, which lies at the foot of a range of hills that inhabits about four-hundred thousand people. The city is bizarrely arranged in a manner so the upper class may never come into contact with the working class so long as they go only to work and on ‘evening walks’. Manchester has an extensive

In the article, “Gender, Class and Urban Space: Public and Private Space in Contemporary Urban Landscapes” Liz Bondi, puts forth her perspectives about the possible interconnections between gender dichotomy ,urban public /private space or city/suburb dichotomies and how separable or intertwined they are with each other. She attempts to further provide evidence that ‘the ideal of separate spheres’ (Bondi, Pg.162.) continues to affect our lives .She states that gentrification and class is intertwined in this dynamic interaction between gender and space. Bondi identifies these ‘dichotomies’ as duos, be it city/suburb, public /private or male/ female. She points out to the associations between masculinity -public space - city and femininity - private space - suburbs and that these interconnections are look upon as ‘ideologies rather than reality’ (Bondi 2013). The conclusions Bondi presented are based on the empirical evidence she collected which seem to lack abstractness, i.e they are specific to certain location at a certain time. But the interpretations and the data collected reflect the complex character of the urban realm, gender and the interplay between the two. They exhibit characters of being separate as well as being interwoven, distinct, ‘disentangled and a dismantled’ as well as overlapping each other. Although Bondi seems to acknowledge this complexity; she overlooks its importance in her selection of the research site and sample size.