Cities For Peeps

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"The evolution of modern cities was tied to advances in transport, initially for ships and trains." (Brown 145) I find it pretty interesting how developments were made solely for the purpose of ships and trains. I feel like back then, they knew that advances needed to be made. They knew that there had to be a better way for all these people to get around. Trains and ships help people get places in a matter of minutes or hours instead of months and years like before.

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"Cities require a concentration of food, water, energy, and materials that nature cannot provide." (Brown 145) I disagree with this statement. I am a vegan and I feel I have way more energy and I feel 10 times better because I am getting a plant based diet. It provides me with food, energy, and water. I feel this statement was just made to help him make his point and was pretty biased. It also is recommended by many doctors that people do a plant based diet because it has way more nutrients than you can get from eating any dairy or animal products. Although, I have to agree that there are a lot of people who do eat a lot of bad food and a lot of it gets wasted or thrown into the wrong place causing pollution. When we throw these things in the garbage and sewage, it is affecting our communities greatly. With billions of people doing it everyday, I can see how it has become harder for city managers to handle. 


"Early cities relied on food and water from the surrounding countryside, but today cities often depend on distant sources for basic amenities." (Brown 145) This adds on to the point on how even though we have made many advances today, we have also made negative advances today. I feel like before they made better decisions about what they ate and did not have places like McDonalds and Burger Kind to fatten them up. These are many of the struggles we face today. Even If people wanted to live a better lifestyle, it would be pretty hard because of the environment we live in.