Assignment task: Provide full in depth details for each question.
Q1. What is a city? How do you define what constitutes a city? Discuss your experiences living (or visiting) in a city. Were they positive or negative?
Q2. Which theory (or theories) best explain how you view or define a city? Discuss why you would (or would not) like to live in a city.
Q3. How does the geographic location of a city affect its residents, business, housing and leisure activities? Give examples of cities in the US.
Q4. What are the various lifestyles of people who reside in a city? Which lifestyle best fits the way you view your life? Have cities become places where only the super rich or super poor live?
Q5. Defend or reject the following statement: Cities are filthy and disgusting places filled with slums, homeless people and high rates of crime.
Q6. Defend or reject the following statement: Cities are wonderful and beautiful centers of culture, leisure activities and business. There is some crime, but most people are not affected by it on a daily basis.
Q7. Why does it seem that middle class people flee the cities to the suburbs, leaving the cities only for the rich and poor?
Q8. Agree with one statement: "Cities are great places to grow up and raise a family" or "I would never want to live and raise a family in the city, give me the suburbs."