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 […]
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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 […]
The Preface, The Idea
In the preface of his City of Rhetoric, David Fleming outlines the course he will take in his book regarding the relationship between public discourse and built environments in the United States. I have noticed that Fleming structures his argument three parts. The first part of his argument in the preface is the rejection of […]
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 […]
The Final Words
Reading Analysis 5: In the last chapter of the book City of Rhetoric, author David Fleming wraps up his final words by explaining what his overall point of this book is; to consider and better understand our metropolitan lives together as well as our civic responsibilities. He mentions1990’s urban poverty and how it was lower because […]
Afterword
In Chapter 10 “Afterword”, David Fleming concludes his book by hoping that in the future the forces that keep us apart and repress our public life will be overcome. More specifically, he places the future of our public life on the youth. For example, Fleming theorizes that if the youth is taught not only the benefits […]
The Fundamentals
David Fleming, in the afterword of his book titled The City of Rhetoric, argues that if we wish to see any advancement in American society, we must no longer neglect the important relationship between a given space and socioeconomic trends. This chapter is unique in the sense that he begins by providing historical and […]
Reading Analysis #5: Fleming Chapter 9: Cities of Rhetoric
In his book City of Rhetoric, in chapter 9: Cities of Rhetoric, David Fleming argues that creating environments that are helpful to human development are a difficult task, yet we keep trying. “But designing for people is not just about ensuring decent housing for the poor and disadvantaged; it is about designing for human beings […]
Could commonplaces be the solution?
Reading Analysis 4 In chapter 8, “Toward a New Sociospatial Dialectic,” of David Fleming’s City of Rhetoric, he argues that the built environment such as public space influences the type of work and people that derive from the particular area. In other words, for Fleming, where you come from shapes what possibilities you have. Therefore, […]
Sociospatial Environment
Rhetorical Analysis #4: Fleming Chapter 8 Throughout the book, author David Fleming constantly argues that our built environment, along with civic public discourse and education, continually shape who we are. In this specific chapter, the first of section 3, Fleming examines the scenes he has talked about in previous chapters such as the ghettos, white […]