Summary
I have been working on a paper on cosmopolitanism, so I have been reading and reading about the various connections that theorists have made between propinquity, public space, urbanity, and cosmopolitanism. I’ve struggled with reconciling city centers as they are portrayed in theory with what happens in the cities in which I immerse myself: rather than the crowded, lively places of social interaction envisioned by urban theorists, I regularly experience my city and the others I visit as indeed crowded and indeed lively but where people rush past each other with their earbuds screwed into the side of their heads, eyes cast to their feet--rushing rushing past each other not wanting interaction one little bit.
Date of Original
1-1-2008
Volume
1
Issue
2
Broad Type
Article
Specific Collection
Multi: the RIT Journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design.
Notes
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