In David Fleming’s book City of Rhetoric, Fleming discusses the purpose for his writing, and illustrates how we have neglected the key issues in this country such as homelessness and poverty. Fleming states how we have forgotten these issues. This is not the first time Fleming has said this. In some of my previous work, […]
City of Rhetoric
Reading Analysis 3 – Fleming and the Separation of Suburbs
In David Fleming’s book City of Rhetoric, Fleming talks about how the suburbs are designed in ways to stay apolitical. They are designed differently than a typical neighborhood or city. This “design” Fleming talks about is the simple fact that they are more privatized than that of a city landscape. Due to this fact, people […]
RA 4: Fleming 3.8
In his book City of Rhetoric, author David Fleming argues that our built environment is influenced by and influences the rhetoric surrounding it. Throughout the book and his research he shares different examples and his reasoning, but it’s in the final chapters where he ties it all together. In chapter 8, Fleming also raises two new questions: “What […]
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 […]
Fleming’s Parting Words
In Chapter 9 of City of Rhetoric Fleming argues that we must stop wasting time and make changes to benefit the future of our communities. He beings the conclusion of this book by stating that it is a “tall order” to combat the biases that our society has bred and processes such as language don’t […]
The Afterword
In the afterword of City of Rhetoric, David Fleming argues that in order for the American society to progress and become even better then us humans should realize of the importance between social trends and the environment. The afterword is rather different from the other chapters in the book because in here Fleming uses various […]
T = Transportation
As a college student at American University, I have a hard time getting to Georgetown. For one, I don’t have a car on campus, so that’s not an option. (Even if I did have a car, I most likely wouldn’t drive to Georgetown anyway. The few parking lots they do have are expensive and really […]
Reading Analysis 5: “City of Rhetoric”
In his final, self-titled chapter of his book City of Rhetoric, David Fleming summarizes many of his prior arguments, as well as giving his closing thoughts on the ideal implementations of his thinking in regard to not only the division of neighborhoods but also the application in teaching, in regards to promoting a higher sense […]
Fleming’s Final Chapter; Schooling City
In his final chapter of City of Rhetoric, David Fleming contends that being part of the city is embedded into human nature, and we should strive to embrace and preserve this while respecting and improving the argumentative comfort zone that is the city within and without each of us. In other words, as humans, we cling […]
How to Create Rhetoric
In “Cities of Rhetoric” in City of Rhetoric David Fleming concludes that perfect cities of rhetoric, or cities in which civilians can come together to hear each other out fairly and talk through disagreements, are difficult to create, but not impossible. Furthermore, Fleming argues that as part of our human nature, we keep striving to […]