Week 9

We live in a country that is always moving on, there is always a new problem and solutions, a new thing to talk about, a new job, a new thing to stress about and it never stops. As citizens of this country we are tired and coffee has become a fundamental part of our daily routines.

Jacob thinks that they designed the city from “bird’s eye view”. They focused on the beauty of the skyline and the big picture and not the walkers view, the view that matters the most. They forgot people experience the city in in the ground while walking and not from high above. Because of this mistake most cities structure looks similar and do not show signs of culture and “flavor” that differentiates from one another. She believes that urban planners have taken on a childish logic, it has become all about showing off what the city they’ve built looks like and not about building a public space that people will like and therefore uniqueness is taken away from cities, now cities only provide for certain people and not for everyone like they should. In Vox (“How highways wrecked American cities”) they explain that highway projects through the cities destroy neighborhoods and take tax payers away. These highways in some type of way change the structure of cities. Cities go from unique places to places are structure symmetrically.

Field Guide

Living in a city that is always moving on at a fast pace, there is always a new problem and solutions, a new thing to talk about, a new job, a new thing to stress about and it never stops. When you are moving as such fast pace there is almost never time to stop and cook. So what do you do? Get take out. This is the reason why many in America are overweight For my map I will be walking around the city and keeping tracks of restaurants. Not the fancy expensive ones, but fast food ones. I will check places like pizza places, hot dog stands, McDonalds and such. I will also rate the food quality, how busy they are and how fast I get my food. With this I will also demonstrate that the fastest places to give out food are also the most unhealthy and no one can avoid to eat this food because most people are usually on the go. (166)