Julie Giles

One of my favorite singers, Lily Allen, sings a song called LDN. The lyrics are clever and reflect her feelings of city life in London. She says in the chorus "When you look with your eyes / Everything looks nice. / But if you look twice, / You can see it's all lies." I think this verse reflects a lot of what we (or I, at least) learned in this course: from housing segregation, to the effects of gentrification, to the cause that led the movement of Occupy Wall Street and Boston. The city is usually glamorized by movies and the media, but when you look deeper, there is a whole other world that is not so flashy. However grim these realities may be, there are always hundreds of other reasons to love the city and the diversity within it. As Lily says "Sun is in the sky oh why, oh why would I want to be anywhere else." :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfD6jAoJrJg