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An ideal city is open, civilising and democratic. Discuss how this ideal has been presented and its limitations.
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... SR 214 ASSESSMENT. BY RUWANTHI PERERA. QESTION: An ideal city is open, civilising and democratic. Discuss how this ideal has been presented and its limitations. INTRODUCTION. "Public spaces in cites are seen as 'a site that offers relief from the burdens of subjective life' facilitating mutual engagement and so mutual obligation and loyalty" (Sennett 1990a 23-24 cited on Thrift and Amin 2002) But others would see city spaces as (Thrift and Amin 2002) suggest, as the generators of new-shared meanings, and which arise hybrid cultures by intermingling. This essay will explore how the 'ideal city' has been presented by different authors and its limitations they found in return by exploring different issues and themes in their chapters. According to Dickens (Bleak House) 'The city can be seen as a place of the mind that informs subsequent ideas, such as the city as frightening, dystopian, chaotic, illegible,













