Big_City_Life

Big City Life The culture wars continue to rage across the United States. It clashes over hate speech regulations, affirmative action, abortion, immigration, art, history, and lifestyle questions suggest that America is more polarized than ever before. As suburbs draw more businesses and residents, they produce new forms of art and cultural events which longtime residents resist as undermining the essentially residential quality of suburbs. Similarly, in cities, new parking structures, highways, and downtown malls produce suburban landscapes that urbanites reject, seeing those changes as evidence of the intrusion of suburban culture. As I sit at my computer, contemplating my birthday and the changes that have occurred in my life during the year, I am struck by the never-ending challenge I face to become me. Suddenly, a question rises whether or not living in the city is the life I would choose to live. Then I ask myself, what is living in the city' 'City' is a keyword in contemporary culture and thought. In almost any field today there is recurrent metaphorical use of urbanity. Not as referring to city individuality, traditional images or insignia of a particular city, but to the city as a manifestation of a more general urban condition. The city has also rapidly established itself as the city, living, life, time, live, car, urban, suburban, new, cities, suburbs, metaphor, library, just, expense, culture, access, yourself, yet, while, walk, trees, train, studying, students, stores, socializing, social, rates, produce, parking, outside, means, lifestyle, itself, images, home, grass, good, general, find, few, even, during, convenience, consider, commuting, close, changes, centers