Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Professor McCluskey
New Urbanism
20 April 2015
Gotham City: A Study into the Darkness.
Gotham City, home of the Batman. It is one of the most famous
fictional cities ever, yet relatively little is known about it. A city where
one of the most famous superheroes, battles with some of the most
famous villains comics has to offer. But this is not about the Batman
and his enemies; this is about the city itself, and if this famous fictional
city, actually is a great place to live and work in. I will be diving into
the world and landscape of Gotham, and there will be a picture
appendix at the end of this paper. These pictures will be used to show
you pictures of places in Gotham, and where they are located, but the
paper itself will be talking about if these locations hurt or help the city.
Gotham City, while a large metropolis with plenty to offer
the citizens of the city, actually should not be used as a model
for development.
Claim 1: Sporting Domes, like the one located in Gotham,
actually hurt the surrounding area, rather than profit it. The Gotham
City Knights, which is the citys Professional Football team, are located
in the Amusement Mile section of the city. (Key 49 Appendix 1). While
the city should be feeling lucky to have its own sporting team,
especially a football team, this actually is losing a lot more money than
City; already Gotham has never been a rich metropolis, in fact the city
has been described multiple times in the comics as hellhole, even the
Boy Scout Superman despises it. Im not particularly fond of Gotham.
Its like somebody made a nightmare out of metal and stone. (DC
Database) It can be argued that sport domes can bring crowds in all
sorts of weather, which is true. The question that has to be asked is..
For the final product, I will have the counterpoint figured out.
main for the city (DC Database). The combination of these three large
systems can equal disaster according to Bruce R Ellingwood and Takao Adachi.
Civil infrastructure systems, such as water, electrical power, natural gas, and
transportation systems, are essential to the smooth functioning of modern society.
Because of their inter-connected nature, once one infrastructure system is damaged
by an earthquake or other natural hazard, other infrastructure systems may
malfunction as well. (Ellingwood, Bruce R, and Takao Adachi)
Infrastructure systems that may be impacted by a natural or man-made disaster
consist of many interconnected components and delivery systems. These
components are widely distributed over a region and may sustain different levels of
damage when subjected to an extreme event. (Ellingwood, Bruce R, and Takao Adachi)
With learning about the damage that can be done by the sewage
plants, there was a fair question I had in defense of the plant. If the
plant was small enough, my thoughts was that maybe the bacteria and
the slime would be contained. Although Gotham is a large city, I had
hopes for a small plant, but what I found on the Dc Wiki page, stopped
all hopes for a safe plant. What I learned was the D'Angelo Sewage
keep the half dozen thug prisoners safe from him. Once in his cell, Ras
Al Ghul asks him, Do you hate criminals so much, that you lock
yourself in with criminals just to fight them? (Nolan Batman Begins)
Towards the end of Chuck Tates article, An Appetite for Destruction,
Tate gives his final professional opinion on the Batman.
I now make the case for my bold statement that the Batman
does not intend to help people, but incidentally helps them all the
same, and simultaneously shows that he is using hostile, not
instrumental, aggression. (Pg 141 Chuck)
Does Batman do a lot of good? Yes. Does he save plenty of
people from awful fates annually? Yes of course, but what matters here
is not the end result, but how he would help a developing city. And to
this I say, Batman would hurt a developing metropolis. From him
putting himself above the law, to all his methods of torture and
destruction, he only brings out the worst in a city.
For Matt: From here I would go into new claims, such as Airports and
Arkham Asylum. For Arkham, I will be diving into their less than
orthodox means of healing of the mentally insane. For Airports I will be
going into the danger of terrorism, and the effect on nearby residents
ears. I will show how while the Gotham International airport is outside
the city, it is right next to Bludhaven, which a small immigrant town
Citations:
Baade, Robert A., and Richard F. Dye. "The Impact Of Stadium And Professional Sports On
Metropolitan Area Development." Growth and Change: 1-14. The Impact of Stadium and
Professional Sports on Metropolitan Area Development. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.
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Lopate, Phillip. Waterfront :A Walk Around Manhattan. 1 Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor
Books, 2005; 2004. Print.
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M Lundholm,, R Rylander. "Work Related Symptoms among Sewage Workers." -- Lundholm and Rylander
40 (3): 325. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
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"Sewage Sludge, Pros & Cons." Environmental Science & Technology. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
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Tate, Chuck. "An Appetite for Destruction Aggression And The Batman." The Psychology of
Superheroes: An Unauthorized Exploration. Dallas, Tex.: BenBella ;, 2008. 135-145. Print.
All of the photos taken for the appendixes, was taken from the Dc
Wiki page (DC Database)