A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which
are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.
Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found
new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1. __________
immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2. __________
which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns
on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there wereS3. __________
on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-
teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4. __________
written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico
City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,S5. __________
are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—theS6. __________
poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-
ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7. __________
promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural povertyS8. __________
and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9. __________
country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late,S10. __________
sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.
S1. new à a new S2. filling à filled
S3. though à if S4. This à What
S5. was à were S6. dissimilar à similar
S7. lies à lie S8. that à which
S9. it à them S10. late à later
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