City vs. Country

analyze the key factors identified by authors as important to the emergence of urban cultures during this period. You may want to consider the following questions to guide your analysis:

1. Briefly discuss the different periods American cities passed through. Concentrate more on what the American cities lost from one period to the next. What did they gain? (Consider: the growth of the economy, civic and cultural institutions, community life, etc. See Mumford, Schlesinger)

2. What have been some of the contrasting opinions reflecting Americans? ambiguities towards urban life? (Consider those who critiqued and/or praised urban life and why. See The City, Still, Strauss)

3. Why did people choose to move to the cities? What were their expectations? Aspirations? What did the cities offer? What did city dwellers lose in the transition from rural to urban life? What did they gain? (The City, Schlesinger, Wirth, Still)

4. What factors increasingly separated the city from the country? What became some of the identifying characteristics of urban life? (The City, Schlesinger, Wirth, Still)

5. In what ways did changes in city living conditions and cultural institutions reflect the increasing contrasts in life style between the rich and the poor (or increasing social stratification)? (Mumford, Schlesinger, Still)

You will have to have reviewed all of this week’s assigned materials to compose a well rounded essay. After you have reviewed this week’s materials and thought about the guiding questions, come up with your own thesis statement and then draw on the course materials for examples to substantiate your point/s.

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