Response to #1

Both Park and White address the importance of the neighborhood in city or New York City living. But both contradict each other on this matter, Park writes "Business and industry seek advantageous locations and draw around them certain portions of the population. There spring up fashionable residence quarters from which the poorer classes are excluded because of the incresed value of the land. Then there grow up slums which are inhabited by the great number of porrer classes who are unable to defend themselves from association with the derelict and vicious." Park is divisive in his description of the formation of the city neighborhoods. Whereas White states "At the feet of the plushiest oficies lie the crummiest slums. The genteel mysteries housed in the Riverside Church are only a few blocks away fro the voodoo charms of Harlem. The merchant princes, riding to Wall Street in their limousines down the East River Drive, pass within a few hundred yards of the gypsy kings; but the princes do they are passing kings, and the kings are not yet up anyway-they live amore leisurely life tyhan the princes and get drunk more consistently." The difference in these analysis may be due to the fact that Park is disscussing Cities in general whereas White is focusing purely on New York, a truely individual city. Another difference is their conceptions relating to transport and the neighborhood. Park writes that "the easy means of transportation which enable individuals to distribute their attention and to live at the same time in several different worlds, tends to destroy the permanency and intimacy of the neighbourhood." juxtapose this to Whites analysis,"that many a New Yorker spends a lifetime within the confines of an area smaller than a country village. Let him walk two blcks from his corner and he is in a strange land and will feel uneasy until he gets back,"New York seems like an abberation from Parks general analysis of city life. This is something i can agree with because even moving downtown from uptown i notice a huge difference and don't totally feel comfortable in my new surroundings, but feel completely at home in my old neighborhood.