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    Urbanization has shaped modern selfhood and community in three key ways: 1. As populations migrated to cities, interactions changed from close-knit communities to more anonymous relationships, allowing urban residents more freedom but also less personal connections. 2. In cities, people think more calculatively and consumeristically due to the use of money and viewing themselves as consumers. Their identities are partially tied to appearances. 3. While cities provide anonymity and freedom, they can also cause social isolation and nervous exhaustion on an individual level, and social disorganization on a larger scale. Global cities may strengthen urban trends while poor countries may struggle with large urban communities.

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    Urbanization has shaped modern selfhood and community in three key ways: 1. As populations migrated to cities, interactions changed from close-knit communities to more anonymous relationships, allowing urban residents more freedom but also less personal connections. 2. In cities, people think more calculatively and consumeristically due to the use of money and viewing themselves as consumers. Their identities are partially tied to appearances. 3. While cities provide anonymity and freedom, they can also cause social isolation and nervous exhaustion on an individual level, and social disorganization on a larger scale. Global cities may strengthen urban trends while poor countries may struggle with large urban communities.

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    How has urbanisation shaped

    modern selfhood and


    community?
    MODERN CITIES

    Urban population for 2010:


    3 494 607 000*
    WHY DO PEOPLE PREFER CITIES?

    - Allowed to be anonymous.

    - Live a more private life.

    - Freedom of expression.

    - GAIN MORE POWER OVER


    THEIR LIVES.

    - Promises of a better lifestyle


    Transition to modern citizens
    Ways of interaction From a close community to
    changed dramatically. the cold urbanised world.
    New forms of social interaction
    CIRCLES or multilayered relationships

    The ones we thoroughly trust - close friends and


    relatives.
    Friends and people we know but do not trust
    enough to let them pass the restrictions
    People we rely on for services

    Unfamiliar ones.
    New ways of thinking
    Calculative, forced by the use of money.

    Thinking as consumers. Consumerism as a


    driving force in urban societies.
    We no longer get only what is necessary.
    We build a symbolic web of meanings.
    The New Appearance
    Introduce yourself to
    strangers.

    Looks as an indicator for:


    - Social status
    - Occupation
    - Financial status
    - Belonging to a certain
    social group

    Strangers have to know something


    about you at first glance. You present
    them with clues as to what your
    character will be and what role will
    you be playing.
    Complications
    Of individual scale:
    • The ‘Nervous Exhaustion’

    Of larger scale:
    • ‘Social Disorganisation’
    Children of urbanisation
    Inevitable change and the future

    • A strong pattern will remain for long.


    • Global cities will strengthen things that define
    urban way of life.

    yet
    • Poor countries will have difficulties controlling
    urban communities.
    • Resources are running out.

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