Cities that evoke emotion

Cities evoke emotion by Joseph Priestley ... the story of two cities separated by thousands of miles and united by feelings stirred by urban transformation and openness to new cultures, so the feelings of Cairo and Berlin swing between calmness and nervous tension, honor and shame, the need for love and adherence to morals... Joseph Ben Priestley in his book "Cities that evoke emotion... Ideas about urban transformation in Berlin and Cairo 1860-1910," analyzed the feelings associated with urban change in the second half of the 19th century in Berlin and Cairo during that period, so with the French cultural invasion of Berlin and the British colonization of Egypt in the 19th century, the bond of morality was lost in Germany and Cairo. With this change that the two cities experienced, there emerged an urgent need for positive change that calms nerves exhausted by city noise and stirs positive feelings lost by urban residents. So the idea of new suburbs, garden cities, and civic culture appeared in the two cities. And with the geographical and cultural distances between Cairo and Berlin, the author reveals that the second half of the 19th century witnessed wide debate in the two cities about urban change and its impact on the population, a debate that raises questions about the accuracy of the contrast between the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period.