Similarities Between Buckley And Wirth

In the documentary, The City (1939), the filmmakers examine the problems of large overpopulated cities and advocates the creation of new suburban communities that will benefit the average modern family. It details the harmful environment that large cities create for the habitants in the area. While, also providing specific facts on the advantages of suburban communities. As in The City (1939,) both articles by Buckley and Wirth tackle the topic of urbanism. In Urbanism as a Way of Life, Wirth describes the nature of a city and the ways a city affect its inhabitants. While, Newcomers Adjust, Eventually, to New York, focuses on the difficulties of living in a city and how hard it is to call it home. Both articles aim to describe the nature and relationship that the city have on its inhabitants, while using similar evidence to define the daunting and difficulties of urban life.

A major aspect that Buckley concentrates on is the notion that living in the city will have a resounding effect on a person. Wirth in return matches this idea in the statement, “Urbanization no longer denotes merely the process by which persons are attracted to a place called the city and

They provide some ideas on how to conduct this change. For example, Wirth indicates the following action, “It is obviously, therefore, to the emerging trends in the communication system and to the production and distribution technology that has come into existence with modern civilization that we must look for the symptoms which will indicate the probable future development of urbanism as a mode of social life. The direction of the ongoing changes in urbanism will for good or ill transform not only the city but the world.” (Wirth, 24) Consequently, it is of great significance that we comprehend the driving force that is causing the city to disrupt the environment of its inhabitants. To learn from our experiences and pave a better