Cities 07

Cities have become interwoven and so complex, that it is difficult to find a city with a single culture. Notwithstanding, the mobility in to cities by different ethnic groups and with high exception for future success has caused an increased in public space , most notably the prison. Sharon Zukin work on “ Whose Culture” and “Whose City” was fascinating because it acted as an eye opener for me to see the what multicultural cities are built of. In “Whose Culture”, the complexity was how the public culture keeps changing. With this dynamic situation of people’s lives , the duration of a particular style is key to what should be made, not to be made and with a close attention to the quantity. “Whose City” by the suggestion from its name , one cant point fingers at a particular group. These two brings about the multicultural nature of nowadays cities. The two most interesting issues were; multiculturalism and how creates a unique city, with particular reference to America. Secondly, with a multicultural society how fast cheap public spaces are increasing.
Culture is a powerful element of a city and how the city is functioning. It holds certain symbolic aspects of cities that can be easily recognized by outsiders. The difficult issue is that American today can’t be easily classified with any specific culture and symbols. This is due to the fact that American society is multicultural. People through out the world finds refuge in America and don’t return home. As time goes by, the immigrants and their children assimilates certain aspects of American culture and still retains some of their which creates a subculture. Some of the sub cultures found in America today are; hip hop culture, rock & roll, gay, Spanish, and Indian culture etc. With these different elements in mind, public culture changes as time goes by. For example, in the production industries the styles keep changing. Few years ago, Addidas was one of the top selling shoes company in the world but today other names has come up. Take for instance the designing companies, major designers that Americans used are from all around the world especially France. Lets take a walk in the entertainment, hip hop as a point of focus, when it all started the lyrics was cool and descent and major social and political issues where attacked. Ladies Loves Cool James ( LL COOL J), started in 1985 with a hit, the motives to his song was to attack the other Master of Ceremonies ( M.C.) to the challenge this flow. Presently, most hip hop hits are lyrically bad with a lot of profanities, but yet still people love it and millions of copies are sold. It educative hip hop songs are released today; it will be of no profit compare to other. This states the this generation is changing in every aspect today, when technology is combine with multicultural society changes is inevitable. Multicultural societies in my own since is the best , because of how ethnocentrism is fading and people are judging critically and also because these societies gain a lot from other cultures, and it help to developed their own society.
Multiculturalism has help civilized most societies today, but prisoners are increasing rapidly because of crime. The demand for jails today is rapidly increasing; many reasons can be responsible for that. The first is a multicultural society like American people comes from different back grounds into the cities; some are murderers, thieves, and all kinds of criminals. When mix in a free society the start to committee the same crimes. For example, crime rate in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota is high because most Liberians were either directly or indirectly involved in the war, being brought up in a violent society they tend to act that way. Another reason is that competition is too high in this society, people tend to fight hard in getting their jobs or to be promoted, and during this drive illegal acts are done. The need of more jails can be for a lot of reason form drunk driving to sexual harassment. These are things found in large cities and ironically it can become part of an illegal sub culture.