Requirement: 1,250 words, double spaced, font Times Roman 12 pt, NO PLAGIARISMMovie: Unforgiven by Clint Eastwood (1992)ONLY use attached readings and articles from Peer-reviewed Journals, to discuss

What is a City? (Brainstorming week 1)

The type of city, e.g., capital city, municipality, small town.

The rate of urban growth (regulated and/or unregulated)

Density: The population per square mile/the type (high-rise) and density of housing (cultural exchange, exchange of germs)

Economic aspects of a city: industrial (instead of agricultural economy)

Access to basic services, e.g., water, electricity, gas, sanitation, shops

Access to streets, sidewalks and public transportation

Access to administrative services, e.g. police, legislative,

Access to educational services, e.g., schools, clinics, universities (exchange of ideas)

Access to culture, e.g. museums, theatres, cinemas, restaurants (exchange of ideas)

Dialectic (tension), or
“incidents and accidents; contiguity and contingency”

Image: “New York,” “Paris,” “London” vs. “Rio,” “Mexico,” “Shanghai”

Exchange of germs (i.e. cholera, pest, flu)

Crime: Drugs, prostitution, gangs, serial killers, racism

Accidental encounters; incidents and accidents: crashes, conflict, love,

Nature vs. culture, culture is our nature (image/cliché of “the urban jungle“)

Class (rich and poor share a space): de- and re-territorialized

Public vs. private: ritualized gestures (culturally specific), soundscape, sociolect (codeswitch), sanctioned actions, written vs. – unwritten rules, “obscene side of the law”: illegal actions protected by ideology (e.g. racism, sexism, anti-Semitism), e.g. lynching, looting Jewish businesses in 1030s Germany

Public Space – fascination with characters such as the impostor, nouveau riche, undercover cop, informant, gigolo, pimp, prostitute (high and low class)

Film (-genres)

Crime: caper film, action flicks, Film Noir

Catastrophe: fire, earthquake, terrorist attack,

Screwball comedy, Rom-Com, failed romance (LaLa Land, Blue Valentine)

New ways of seeing (“the camera eye” = the gaze)

You identify via the Other’s gaze

New Objectivity

“the non-organic life of things”)