Sarah Schindler Article- My Response

Part I of this article is about how the built Environment can impact and shape our behaviors and actions. It is an unseen power instrument designed to regulate our behavior. The Built Environment is as powerful as law because it “allows the government to shape our actions without realizing the fact that our experience has been deliberately shaped”. The article is about the literature that talks about infrastructure placement and format symbolic or physical contributors to economic and social inequality, exclusion, and isolation in society. These concepts are fundamentally structured for planners and architects to use. Yet, only a small number of legal scholars consider the regulations or the role that the Built Environment impose on us. Law makers and Judges should be diligent when analyzing the exclusionary impacts of architecture, but research indicate that they often give these impacts little or no consideration.

Part II of this article spots out the different ways the practice of architectural exclusion by municipalities through actions from different participants that create infrastructure to restrict passage and access to certain areas of the community. Those Built Environs that create impediments for access to certain community include: low bridges, road closings, construction of walls, and parking-by-permit-only requirements. The author of this article is making a genuine argument; and her points are very productive of discussion. There are reasonable explanations and  points that she made in both parts I and II to allow her audience(s) to think rhetorically about the action of the Built Environment in our community.