City Life In The United States Since 1880
Reading Response Week 7: E.B. White’s “Here is New York” and “The World of Tomorrow”
Directions : This reading response is intended to get you to practice analyzing primary sources. Some questions will require a longer response than others, but be sure to fully answer each question. Draw directly from lecture and the readings. Include quotes and specific examples from both the reading and lecture to support your points (please provide page numbers for quotes). Save and upload your responses as a Word Document on Blackboard – do not type your response into Blackboard directly. Also, make sure it is clear which question you are answering, either by typing your responses under the questions or by numbering your answers with corresponding numbers. Be sure to run your work through spell check, and read it over carefully before submitting.
1. What is E.B. White’s impression of the 1939 New York World’s Fair in “The World of Tomorrow”? How does his description of the Fair’s exhibits (like GM’s Futurama) highlight the urban planning ideas of the 1930s I spoke about in lecture this week? Please use specific examples and quotes from “The World of Tomorrow” as well as specific examples from lecture to support your points.
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2. What are some of the main characteristics of life in New York City (both positive and negative) E.B. White highlights in “Here is New York”? What does he mean when he says there are “roughly three New Yorks” (pg 152)? Please use specific examples and quotes from “Here is New York” to support your points.
3. Based on these essays, do you think E.B. White would support the movements in urban planning I mentioned in lecture this week? In other words, do you think he would look forward to the kind of city envisioned at the World’s Fair (in Futurama, Democracity or the film “The City”)? Would he be in favor of the kind of urban planning initiatives that Lewis Mumford and the Regional Planning Association of America supported? Why or why not? Please use specific examples and quotes from “Here is New York” and “The World of Tomorrow as well as specific examples from lecture to support your points.
