Exam 9: Comparative Urbanism: the City and Culture

Sociologically, Fiorello La Guardia was a marginal man who lived on the edge of many cultures.

According to Daniel J. Monti, in the urban way of life, the many different types of people have found an appropriate form of public behavior that enables them to get along with each other. Monti refers to this as

For all intents and purposes, large-scale industrialism began in England about

Now a city of 22 million people, Beijing was formerly called

Classical Athens stood as a monument to

Shakespeare noted that the ways of the country and of the city are often quite different.

In the 5th century B.C.E., the city of Athens had a population of roughly

Athens' moment at the pinnacle of urban history was undermined eventually by the culture's own egocentrism and exploitative practices.

What does Daniel J. Monti argue about cities?

Louis Wirth's principal achievement as a United States urbanist was his articulation of the role of culture in cities.

It was the expansion of capitalist nations and their cities in the 19th century that made it possible for the Communists to gain control of China.

Cities are almost always completely self-defining.

The cultures that prevailed in classical Athens and in Ming Peking were very similar.

Urban dominance is a central pattern of the modern world, but not the historical world.

In his writings, Charles Dickens used a phrase that summarized what worried Engels about the capitalist city: that it reduced everything in life to objective facts and quantity. This phrase is

The very success of Greek city-states led to the aristocrats' downfall.