City_Characteristics


 * 1. What are the characteristics of a city? **
 * 1) Fixed transit, preferably rail, above and below ground. Subways along all major travel corridors; buses or trams on all secondary corridors
 * 2) Mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods
 * 3) Buildings of different age, condition, and size Living spaces everywhere, especially near downtown
 * 4) Large or small public squares at all significant intersections
 * 5) Lots of people coming and going (immigrants, people moving in from other places, and people moving out to other cities
 * 6) Street trees and rooftop gardens for pleasure, and to ameliorate temperature extremes and reduce need for HVAC
 * 7) Light rail or a rapid train connection to the airport. Freight and passenger rail depots in town
 * 8) Working farms adjacent to or (better yet) within city limits
 * 9) Shops that open onto the sidewalk, not onto parking lots.
 * 10) All automobile parking is underground or mid-block, not between street and shop

**List as many things as you can that are found in a modern city. **
 * 1) Wide streets and sidewalks
 * 2) intelligent transportation
 * 3) recycle bins
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">smart <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">traffic lights
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">security systems

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">2. Which of these characteristics might have been found in a city 2000 years ago? ** <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">All the characteristics <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">mentioned above

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">3. Open a new page in your wiki called City Characteristics to answer the following questions: **

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">a. Report on one characteristic or invention that is shared by modern and ancient cities. Describe, briefly, how this characteristic is addressed in a modern city. ** <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The wide streets <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">and sidewalksare characteristic ofancient and moderncities <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">. <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Beforethe streetsand sidewalkswere made of stoneandvarious materialsarecurrentlyconcretesidewalksandasphalt streets <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">, <span class="hps" style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">but can also bebothconcrete <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">.

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">b. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> **Research in either** **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> [|Ancient Rome] ****<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">or ****<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> [|Ancient Greece]  ****<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">to learn about life within the city states of those civilizations. ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an aristocratic republic to an increasingly autocratic empire. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">A society highly developed in military and political skills, Rome professionalized its military class and created a system of government called res publica, the inspiration for some modern republics such as the United States and France. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Roman civilization is often grouped into "classical antiquity" together with ancient Greece. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to government, law, war, art, literature, architecture, technology, religion, and language in the Western world.

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">c. How was that characteristic addressed in ancient times? ** **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">d. How has this element of city life changed over history? **