Why Cities Feel Glorious

The feeling that overcomes you when you enter a city, surrounded by looming towers and enveloped by seas of unique people, is one that it almost impossible to describe.  I've often found myself wondering why cities seem to have this overwhelming effect that suburbs just never seem to live up to.  Aaron' Renn's article, "Why Cities Feel Glorious," does an interesting job of examining the reason behind this feeling of superiority that comes along with being in a city compared to a suburb.  As Renn points out, everything in a suburb is a scaled down and less magnificent version of what is already in a city.  Renn points out that even the name "suburb" declares that a suburb is merely a sub par version of an urban setting.  

I agree with Renn's justification that the architectural exuberance of a city is what makes it so great and that the architecture of a suburb is even to some points submissive and unimportant.  I think Renn successfully emphasizes the cultural significance of cities versus suburbs.  No matter how hard suburbs try or want to be as sacred as cities, they will never be able to reach the historical points that cities have reached.  Not only are cities older than the suburbs that surround them but they are more heavily populated and centered around the activities and events that create and mold history.  There is a level of depth and importance in cities that cannot be replicated in the suburbs.