Paper Assignment
Write 7 to 8 pages long research paper on visible and invisible cities (political theory, renaissance literature).
Human communities have been theorized and imagined within the western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Renaissance. Particular intellectual focus of this paper should be the city, conceived since Aristotle as the proper habitat of humankind, and the relationship between the family or household and the state. Include texts from utopian writings and works of political theory. In addition to literary and philosophical texts, also look at visual and cartographic representations of cities and urban spaces.
Some of the questions that the paper can address:
A. What answers have past ages evolved to the question of what the perfect human community would be like?
B. What factors have been determined as critical to the construction(and destruction) of communities?
C. In what ways have the relationships between the individual, the family, and the community or state been conceived
D. What role has the notion of the city played in political thought?
E. In what ways has urban space been conceived and represented through visual media?
F. In what ways have factors such as gender, class, race, and religion inflected the conceptualization and use of urban space?
G. How has the notion of the city played out in imaginative literature- as ideal, as dystopia, and as locus for human experience and agency?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, and typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.