A great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of c

A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which

are nothing new in the history of cities, except for in their 【S1】______

scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and have

not found？ new one. And any large or rich city is going to 【S2】______

attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes 【S3】______

of prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are

backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just

as though there were on the edge of seventeenth-century 【S4】______

London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is 【S5】______

the scale. Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers

of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts

that was to be found there, are very similar to descriptions 【S6】______

of Mexico City today-the poor can still be numbered in millions.

The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,

but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a 【S7】______

promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty 【S8】______

and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the 【S9】______

country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations

late, sends them flooding out again to the suburbs. 【S1】______

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