17171 Characteristic of cities

Type of Service: Academic Writing

Work Type: Research paper

Format: APA

Pages: 4 pages – 1,100 words, Double spaced

Academic level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)

Discipline: Natural Sciences

Title: Characteristic of cities

Number of sources: 2

Paper instructions:

Consider this while writing this assignment. 3 main concepts to remember: geography, climate, Econony looking for: personality of the cities, how its different from where they came from and where they are living now. 1. Consider the profile of variables characteristic of cities. Use a sentence or two to characterize each variable.2. Choose any large city, real or imagined, showing how several or all the variables determine its character.3.

A. Chose a small city, town, or village, real or imagined, showing how these same variables have little or no effect in determining its character.

B. Which factors are determining there?

Books done so far.

Week Two: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Week Three: JacobsWeek Four: of Life” Wirth, “Urbanism as a Way

Week Five: Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”

Week Six: Toennies, “On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft”

Week Seven: Discussion of the preceeding.

Week Eight: Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow

Week Nine: Garreau, Edge Cities