Ana Perez
After reading all the articles that were distributed in class, this was my conclusion about what a city is: A city is a geographical space with an economic system where services and industries predominate.
A city is able to fend for itself. The example of the first city or as the article said “The first true city” is found in Mesopotamia. For its convenient location and access to rivers they were able to develop their own form of architecture and agriculture . Mesopotamia was a civilization and according to the introduction “Cities are civilization.” The city life gives birth to writing, economic systems and government.
Geographically, a city is composed of different elements. In the article, “The City Image and Its Elements”, Kevin Lynch points out five of the mos t important: Paths, Edges, Districts, Nodes, and Landmarks. From a social perspective, I find it interesting how Lewis Mumford presents the city as the stage of a play and the population as the actors in which politics, art and education are the factors that make the play more richly significant.
