The Art of Making Attractive Cities

According to Alain de Botton, what are the six fundamental things a city needs to get right?

• Order and variety, visible life, compactness, orientation and mystery, scale, local color

• Order and variety, invisible life, sprawl, orientation and clarity, height, global color

• Disorder and monotony, visible life, compactness, orientation and mystery, scale, local color

• Order and variety, visible life, sprawl, orientation and mystery, height, local color

What is the key to creating an 'organized complexity' in a city?

• Having buildings of different heights and widths

• Having buildings of the same height and width

• Having buildings of the same color and detail

• Having buildings of different colors and details

What is one of the reasons people love Paris and New York?

• The love of order

• The love of chaos

• The love of simplicity

• The love of complexity

What is the ideal height for buildings in attractive cities?

• Tall buildings dedicated to banking and commerce

• Five stories resulting in dense and medium-rise cities

• Skyscrapers with no height limit

• Single-story buildings with spacious surroundings

What should cities demonstrate in order to avoid sameness?

• Their local culture and history

• Foreign culture and history

• No culture and history

• Generic culture and history