Cities and Communities

Question 1

What does Sennett (1973) say about communities? (Odd socks)

Answer 1

communities are based on a belief of sameness which leads to conformism, intolerance of difference and deviance, and the risk of violent confrontations with other communities.

Question 2

What does Simmel suggest? (Hipster glasses)

Answer 2

People are physically close but emotionally distant.
In the city individualism becomes extreme.
“This leads ultimately to the strangest eccentricities, to specifically metropolitan extravagances of self-distanciation, of caprice, of fastidiousness, the meaning of which is no longer to be found in the content of such activity itself but rather in its form of ‘being different’—of making oneself noticeable”

Question 3

What did Louis Wirth say about urbanisation and its affet on relationships?

Answer 3

relationships in the city are segmental because people don’t know each other as rounded individuals and see only the segment or section of personality related to a person’s role as, say, shop assistant or employer.