The Pulse of the City
... city are so wrapped in their routined and barricaded lives. This general routine that people in urban areas follow is synchronous with economic trade and movements within the city. This is known as the “Pulse of the City”. This “Pulse” is sustained by the high economic stature of the city. This “Pulse”, bluntly put, is basically one vicious circle. Without this vicious circle the inner city would grind to a steady halt. Any well-known city can be compared to the human body: an outer layer that hides the complex, but gruesome inner workings. With the outer layer being suburbia and the inner workings identified as being the crime-filled CBD. I guess humans generally model their creations on themselves down to the very last detail. “You can take the person out of the city, but you can never take the city out of the person.” If you are planning to change your location to the city and it is your first time that you will set foot in an urban area then your best asset would be a person who is familiar with the city, “street-smart”. The best guides to the inner city are not tour guides, but the people who choose to exist in such an environment, the best being cabbies/taxi drivers (public transporters). If the economic status is the “Pulse of the City” then the people who inhabit within the city would definitely be the soul of the city. Without people there would be no city, but just forgotten, concrete shells that are only filled memoirs. Just as God has made us unique, each city is unique with its own unique “personality”, its unique features contrasted by the monotony of the streets and cloned blocks of houses. Each is made-up from each person and their unique character because one person could change a crowd’s lives’. Each city has its own tale, its own history, its ups and its downs. I personally do not enjoy city life. I think that city life is too congested, too pressured, dangerous and too routine driven. It is not good for the human spirit. I enjoy variety as long as it does...