Cities

Advantages and Disadvantages

Noise

Leader problems

Not enough work, unemployment

• Lots of people are lining up to apply for a few jobs that are available.

• Who will work and who won’t have a job?

Concentrated garbage

crowding

Disadvantages

• Noise

• Leader problems

• Not enough work or unequal work creating unequal education and wealth

• Concentrated garbage and pollution

• Crowding and expensive housing (maybe homeless people)

More disadvantages

• Covers farmland and forests

• Bigger targets for enemies

• More disease and it spreads

• If something happens to the food surplus, more people go hungry

• Gangs

• More crime

Covering farmland and forests

Bigger target for enemies

Diseases spread

Gangs

Unequal education and job opportunities, creates rich and

poor people

Even more disadvantages

• Traffic

• Greater damage from a fire or natural disaster

Traffic problems

More damage from fires and natural disasters

Advantages

• Organized water, sewer, garbage and electricity

• Shared protection (firemen, police, emergency systems, walls, armies)

• Taxes pay for common services (TV stations, radio stations, cell phone towers)

• Variety of food• More entertainment• Close together, easy to visit

Need to organize the water supply

Taxes support our protection

armies police

Shared communication systems

Cell phone tower satellite

A variety of food

Shared entertainment