Decatur Street from the bridge between the Urban Life Building and Sports Arena.
Decatur Street is a bustling external environment during the day. Along with the comings and goings of cars, the strip has its fair share of foot traffic as students briefly congregate and head to class.
I wonder if you could study this street as an external built environment in and of itself. Like… where would your study begin? Where would it end? Really interesting to think of a street as a place with a history and a particular design.
I would argue that a street, especially Decatur Street, is a built environment. Even though it spans across a large section of Atlanta, Decatur Street occupies a population of cars and people walking, running, or biking on the sidewalk at any given time. It has a start and an end. If I were to study the street, I would break it up into sections. The section I photographed cut through a small part of Georgia State’s campus, but Decatur Street continues on eastward. I would study the development of the area and the types of people who fill that space.