Urban Planning Environment Topics

Instructions: Your answers must be written in a standard essay format consisting of
a short introduction with a thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, and a
conclusion. The essay must address the three parts of the general prompt. Good
luck!
Essay Option 1: What makes urban environments unique?
1a. What were the attributes that made “urban” environments different from small
towns?
1b. How did the attributes of urban environments shape human relations and
cultures?
1c. . Identify the mechanisms that make cities more prone to freedom than other
environments.
Essay Option 2: Segregating People in Urban Space
2a. What were the principal forces causing cities to segregate by race and social
class over the 20th century?
2b. How did suburbanization exacerbate segregation?
2c. How did stigmatized and spatially segregated people (e.g. people of color, gays
and lesbians,…) develop their own urban worlds?
1 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/