Response #2

In " Here is New York", White focuses on the individual qualities and aspects of New York as opposed to just generalizing it as just another city such as Park does. White gives introspect and personality to New York, descibing the unique components that make New York which gives the reader a better understanding of why New York is more then just a people clumped together in an urban envirement. Sure, Park and White both express simular thoughts such as cities being unstable and how different neighborhoods represent diverse social groups, but White goes far and beyond Park's dry analysis and descriptions of what a city should entail and digs deeper into what New York represents. Park only lays out a structure, a format for how a city should function, unlike White who breaths life and depth into the mass emeshment of urbanization. I do not think that the style in which White writes about when describing the facets of New York, that same passion and enthusiasm could be applied to the crusty and dishevled corners of Los Angeles or the triumphent and elegant streets of Paris. It is the connection and understanding of a particular region that makes it such a valued sentiment. New York on the otherhand is such a mass culmination of cultures and people that is easy for anyone to feel a bond to it. Anyone can see there reflection and find themselves amongst such a blend of diversity that it is near impossible not to find a peice of oneself, something pertaining to one's idenity in such a compact area. As White said, " The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into small islands and adds music with the accompaniment of internal engines."