The final chapter in David Fleming’s City of Rhetoric, is entitled “The Afterword”. In this chapter, Fleming puts together his last few thoughts by explaining that although public and low-income housing has lost importance in the public sphere as of late, he still believes it to be a major topic of concern. Throughout Fleming’s book, […]
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Designing for a Post-Gender Society
In her His & Hers? Designing for a Post-Gender Society, author Suzanne Tick introduces the topic of “gender revolution” and the shifts within gender normalities. Ultimately, Tick argues that now within our society the normalities of each gender has shifted and people need to adjust to the new societal changes. To further her point of […]
Reading Analysis 5 – Fleming’s Final Thoughts
In David Fleming’s last section of City of Rhetoric, Fleming discusses how we, the reader, can help the development of our cities as well as how residents interact and socialize with one another. Fleming discusses how in recent years the efforts to create more affordable housing in urban areas and suburbs has decreased. He lists […]
A Look Towards the Future: Fleming’s Commonplace
Rhetorical Analysis #5 By Kwesi Billups In Chapter 8 of his City of Rhetoric, David Fleming defines the terms by which he believes the reductive societal pictures of suburbia, home, and ghetto can be discarded and replaced by doctrines that seek to erase discrimination, violence, and isolation from the subtext of housing planning and, thus, public […]
Sociospatial Dialect: The Future of Discourse
Reading Analysis #4 By Kwesi Billups In Chapter 3 of his City of Rhetoric, David Fleming makes use of theories of proxemics, linguistics, and chronemics to present a framework by which a revitalization of public discourse can come forth. Fleming’s proposal of the urban sphere as the tool by which groups can better communicate and restructure the public […]
Toward a New Sociospatial Dialectic
In his book “City of Rhetoric”, David Fleming introduces the idea of how societal structures influence relations within his “Toward a New Sociospatial Dialectic” chapter. Ultimately, Fleming argues that physical structures such as location and built environment relates to public discourse. He uses example such as Chicago to argue this point. Within this chapter, he […]
Our Time for Change…Look Around You
Reading Analysis 5 In David Fleming’s final chapter of City of Rhetoric, he summarizes the main points made throughout the book, and argues that the only way to overcome adversity within cities is to find a new interest and work as one unit. Furthermore, Fleming suggests “to bring us closer physically and discursively, we will […]
“His & Hers? Designing for a Post-Gender Society”
Suzanne Tick’s “His & Hers? Designing for a Post-Gender Society” argues for the need of gender inclusion by also stating how the gender roles have also changed a great deal in recent years. Tick argues that the roles have changed between male and female, and there are multiple gender identities, […]
Cities of Rhetoric
In David Fleming’s final chapter of City of Rhetoric, he truly wraps up along with building on his continued theme of the need for a Built Environment by having a “commonplace.” Fleming argues in his final chapter that there is a need for the commonplace to be content within […]
RA6 Campus Landscaped and Learning Spaces
In Kathleen Scholl and Gowri Gulwadi’s article Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces, they discuss the importance of both a structured and unstructured learning spaces. They mention how important the structure of classrooms are and how historically this has been the true and tested method for the average student to retain the most information. However, as […]