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City and countryside advantages and disadvantages

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City and countryside advantages and disadvantages

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Landscape City • Excessive building; Very tall buildings. Field • Scattered housing; • Many green spaces;


Economico-Profissional City • Work in the secondary and tertiary sectors predominate; • There is more job offer; • Work in the city contributes a lot to the national GDP. Field • Primary sector work predominates; • There is less job offer; • It contributes little to the national GDP.

Food City • Unhealthy food. • Strong recurrence of Fast Food. Field • Food based on vegetables; Organic food.

Population City • Younger population; • Strong dependence on technology. Field • Aged population; • Weak dependence on technology.

City services • Great access to basic services; Field • Difficulty in accessing hospitals, schools, etc ...

Preferences City • Everything is close to you, the pace of life is accelerated; • There is a need to attend many different venues; • Some are accustomed to pollution, noise and confusion and accept this; • There is more access to services; • '' Traffic at rush hour has a special glamor. ''

Where does the man of the 21st century live better? • The ideal solution would be for large cities to function in a more sustainable way, with good public transport, many parks, traffic calming schemes, cycle paths, pollution control rules and noise. Or have rural areas with good accessibility, good schools, broadband and cultural events. (...) This is because Man is a species with markedly social behaviors and needs, that lives and is realized through the interaction, movement, wealth and synergy that results from the concentration of people and activities. The field can be reassuring and inspiring, but it is in the city that creativity is born, that the artists and works that forge our existence are forged.

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Urban life has its advantages, after all we have access to school, work, products and services very close to us. People have gone off the field in search of this and most have found it, but it is undeniable that there are serious problems such as lack of security, a poor health system, many clustered in the peripheries without many conditions to improve their own situation.

Another feature of urban life is the distance between people, after all they are too close physically, but far away at the same time. There is a daily rush and time for everything, including talking, visiting people and caring about them. This was common in the field and still is for those who live there.

The city has much to learn from the simple country lifestyle and many of the good practices of rural living could well be restored for the good of all.

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The Lumineers - Life In The City (música para ouvir e letra da música com legenda)! And if you leave / Don't leave me all alone / Cause I'll be scared, I'll be naked / I'll be cold

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''We're not saying it's superior,'' said Miss Bozkent. ''They should just adjust to us.''

The discussion was joined by other writers and editors of the paper, until Donna Lawson, the program director, who functions as a top editor, turned the discussion to other political and social issues.

The paper has a budget of $180,000 a year and is financed by the New York City Youth Board and a bevy of city corporations. Its seeks to train teen- agers to be journalists and writers and to report information of interest to teen-agers in the city.

''We like to say that 150 inform 250,000,'' said Keith Hefner, executive director of Youth Communication/New York Center Inc., which is the parent of New Youth Connections. He added that the paper is ''meant to persuade as well - to be an advocate for the kids in the city.''

Mr. Hefner, a former publisher, became involved in the Dome Project, an Upper West Side program of writing workshops for teen-agers, in 1980. He and three young writers from the project went to Chicago to study a similar paper and decided that one could be started here. Three pilot issues were put out in May, June and July of 1980. ''We published 10,000 copies,'' he said, ''and soon we had orders totaling 44,000.''

Began in New York in '81

The first regular edition of New Youth Connections was published in January 1981 and has come out monthly ever since. It is written, laid out and typeset in the newspaper's offices and printed by a contractor. It prints 80,000 copies a month and claims a readership of 273,000. It is sold to schools in lots ranging from 50 to 500 copies; the yearly cost of the lots runs from $40 to $200. The Board of Education buys 6,000 for remedial reading classes.

The staff members come from several programs in the city's schools: the Executive High School Internship Program, in which students work at the paper for a semester instead of going to classes; from the City as School, in which students work one full day a week at the paper, and from alternative programs in the schools. In addition, they publish a newsletter in the Spofford Juvenile Center, a detention center in the South Bronx for youngsters awaiting trial.

Most of the staff members are young men and women who have decided upon writing as a career.

Courtney Goodloe, 16, of the City as School, wrote the paper's editorial against basing the battleship Iowa, which has a nuclear capability, on Staten Island. ''I enjoy writing,'' she said. ''I like reviews, politics. The paper is making me a writer.''

Andy Faison, 20, the paper's movie reviewer, used to find compositions difficult at Theodore Roosevelt High School, but he expects soon to go to college at Northwestern University, Hamilton College or Adelphi University. ''My,'' he said with a grin, ''how I've grown.'' Janice Jenkins, 19, a sophomore at Fordham University, entered one of the paper's writing contests, won it, entered another, won it, and decided she wanted to be a writer. ''It's important to me,'' she said. ''I have a lot to say and not enough chances to say it.''

The Paper's Varied Subjects

That same feeling can be sensed around the New Youth Connections editorial table, where any subject of interest to New York's urban teen- agers provides material for articles. They are as varied as teen-age pregnancy and abortion, teen-agers as business successes, drugs and violence and food and health.

At the conference Serap Bozkent said she was working on a feature linking certain music groups to satanic cults. Michele Trester, 17, of Hunter College High School, said she would make demographic charts on teen-agers' attitudes and problems.

Maria Cooper, 16, of Springfield Gardens High School, reported on her ''adoption piece about teen-agers aged 11 to 16 with babies and the choices they don't know they have.'' Karl Wagoner, 17, of Art and Design High School, the cartoonist, said he was trying to ''dream up a cartoon showing Eddie Murphy in the White House.'' Bianca Capi, 17, of John Adams High School, reported that the health supplement on diet and exercise for teen-agers was complete. And Ola Solanke, 18, of Sarah J. Hale High School in Brooklyn, asked earnestly what the newspaper could do to support a nuclear freeze. ''Everybody has to do something,'' he said.

Most of the staff members have so- called ''mentors,'' employees of magazines and newspapers who advise them. At the conference, Felecia Ligon, 19, a graduate of Hunter College High School, told how her mentor ''helped me get into Syracuse.''

The newspaper's writers have gone on to such schools as Swarthmore and Harvard Colleges. It manages, according to Mr. Hefner, to instill such a sense of purpose that the managing editor, Rachel Swarns, is now deciding whether to go on to Wesleyan or Howard University, and Janice Jenkins has just about made up her mind to be ''the first black Congresswoman from the South Bronx.''

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''We're not saying it's superior,'' said Miss Bozkent. ''They should just adjust to us.'' The discussion was joined by other writers and editors of the paper, until Donna Lawson, the program director, who functions as a top editor, turned the discussion to other political and social issues.