Archer, Kevin (2012) "The essence of city life"

Question 1

Urbanization of the world’s population is predicted to intensify

Answer 1

Most people now live in cities

Question 2

City growth is rapid especially

Answer 2

the Global South (Asia, Africa) - 81% of world’s urban population

Question 3

“not cities”

Answer 3

a mining town extracting copper does not offer city life

Question 4

Webel, 2004 “The Human Condition”

Answer 4

The sum total of earthly circumstances that make possible the form of speciel life we call human

(All the conditions on Earth that allow human life to exist as we know it.)

Question 5

The essence of cities

Answer 5

They consist of relativly large and densly packed groups of people into small pieces of territory”

Question 6

Characteristics of city life:

Answer 6

1. Feeding itself
2. Relative strangers
3. All classes
4. Ecological impact

Question 7

Characteristics of city life:
(1) feeding itself

Answer 7

a city cannot produce enough food within its own boundaries to sustain all of its inhabitants - cities must establish systems for importing food from outside

Question 8

Characteristics of city life:
(2) relative strangers

Answer 8

impossible, to get to know on anything more than a limited basis. (social context: difficult to know who to trust or whom to delegate decision making authority for the whole)

Question 9

Characteristics of city life:
(3) all classes

Answer 9

Population includes individuals from all classes and backgrounds. Close proximity makes it hard to avoid interacting with such social and cultural strangers.

Question 10

Characteristics of city life:
(4) ecological impact

Answer 10

Cities change the natural environment through dense building, high resource use, and waste production, leading to serious ecological effects.

Question 11

** The Agricultural Revolution (rewolucja rolnicza)

Answer 11

prehistoric transision from hunting to setteled agriculture (10.000 BC/pne, neolit)