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A paper which looks at the concept of community in view of the changing perceptions of the city, the impact of urbanisation and the growth of the suburbs, and the role which the media might play in re-establishing the traditional idea of the community. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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which has contributed to isolation, disconnection and anomie in modern America is the growth of urbanisation: a phenomenon which has been beneficial in many ways from a commercial or economic
point of view, but which has at the same time led to the fragmentation of communities without engendering an acceptable cultural substitute. Urbanisation does not only affect the objective elements
of society, such as the growth of industry and the changes in structures of residence and community organisation, but also the way in which cultural ideologies develop and change and
the levels on which individuals interact with each other. Sassen
(2004) makes the point that although cities are no longer centres of manufacture, as was the case in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they can still be regarded as
centres of production in the financial and economic sense. However, although the breaking down of transnational barriers and the increase in globalisation has given rise to the city as a
nexus on a global network, they no longer play their original role in terms of maintaining national and local community links: the divide between the city and the outlying, residential
areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,
with the changing perceptions of public and private space, there has developed a network society which is characterised by what he calls "capsularisation". "Home" is no longer defined as a
separate and private enclave within a public space in which home and community are inextricably linked. In other words, the suburban residential area which should fulfil the role of the
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