City Life in Antarctica

The concept of cities in Antarctica is different than the concept elsewhere in the world.For one thing, each Antarctican city has its own unique design, unlike the cities that we know in America. Almost every single city is characterized by the same things. For example, buildings, business, downtown, city hall, public transprotation, etc. It is hard to imagine someone strolling through a city in Antarctica and not immediately knowing which of the cities they are in, based solely on the architecture. Us Americans might have a pretty hard time doing that, even if we are aware of the state that we are in, cities are so much alike that distinguishing on from the other might be extremely hard. For another, there are no streets in Antarctican cities, one of the most identifiable characteristics of American cities, how wierd is that! People get from one area to another either by walking along the boulevards and forest paths, or calling upon their flyer to drop them off at their next destination, flyer meaning hot air balloon. Big difference from taking the bus huh? Because the people of Antarctica handle much of their own needs through home-based technology, most of the buildings in Antarctican cities are devoted to the arts and sciences, private residences, and a generous representation of restaurants, rather than commerce (office buildings, as that term is understood elsewhere in the world, make up less than ten percent of city structures). Now how can there be a city without office buildings? As we have been learning, there are a range of what a city can actually be considered. Antarctican cities also contain an unusually large amount of space set aside for parks and natural habitats, this seems like more of a suburban characteristic right? No matter where you are in an Antarctican city, you are never more than a five minute walk from a small forest, or a ten minute walk from a waterfall.
I thought that this article was interesting, it gave me an outlook on the lives of people outside of the realm that I am used to. Having to do with cities, I feel it is relevent to the class.