Introduction
This is a research essay about the topic of City. The basic structure, concept and definition would be presented for city and they would be explained in a descriptive manner. There is no specific definition available for the word “city” because every person has got his own ideas and thoughts related to the word “City”. Their definitions might be different from one another to some extent, but they all mean the same.
Essay Body
(LeGates and Stout 98) The word “City” is very different from a town. City compromises of a very huge, outsized and heavily populated metropolitan area which is administered by many independent districts. This area is built up with the help of many constructive minds’ thinking, planning and structural organizers. Everything manufactured in the city is observed and supported by the municipality departments, so that the inhabitants and people related to those areas could be provided by the basic standards of living with area defined city limits or boundaries. The basic standards supervised and planned by the city management of the city are facilities of power, education, water, sewerage, earnings, goods and services, drainage, waste management, recreation, food, and many other services which could support the daily routine lives of the citizens. A city has also some form of regulations, taxations, and administration departments to take care of the routine casualties.
“The city… is to be understood here as architecture. By architecture I mean not only the visible image of the city and the sum of its different architectures, but architecture as construction, the construction of the city over time.” Also Rossi.
A city is a place where the commercial, educational, institutional, residential and recreational needs are fulfilled and met with each other in co-ordinance. It allows people from different areas, cultures, religions, colors, castes, and behaviors to get along and live in separate groups form, so that they could socially coordinate with one another while enjoying their freedom in their restricted areas or boundaries. The word “city” is indefinite and unclear itself so archaeologists like to write as a criterion of civilization. City is usually formed because of the advantages of increasing returns to scale and economies of scale.
“A city is a relatively large, dense, permanent settlement of heterogeneous individuals and groups of individuals organized to perform, or to facilitate the performance of, locality-relevant functions in an integrated manner and to ensure integration with the social system of which the city is a part.” Alan S. Berg.
(Berger 168) The size of the population is one reason of urban heterogeneity, which could be considered as a part of the definition of the word “city”, and thus, has its own costs and results, but size of the city has costs and results apart from the increased amount of heterogeneity. The concept of city must take into description of the physical contact, size and compactness of the population, as well as deviations in institutional structures and types of people living there. The primary shape and relationship of the city is not dependent on the specific individuals, but it is directly dependent on the classes of people living in it. The social life concept of city is also very straight and simple; the people living in the city does not intercept or interrupt each other’s daily routine directly, but they gather information of one another to some extends and help each other if there is a need. This is because of the fact that every city is categorized by its social life adapted by the people living in it.
Conclusion
As a whole, a city could be immense in size which provides basic and all facilities needed by the people living in it. But its concept is wide enough to protect their rights, lifestyles, careers, jobs, houses, boundaries under certain limits. The size and concept of the city could remain the same, but the people could change with the passage of time.
Works Cited
Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout; 2003, The City Reader, Published by Routledge, p98.
Alan S. Berger, 1978, The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems, Published by Brown, p168.