• Identify and describe a problem and its causes, for example how the built environment contributes to social, political, and economic inequality (Morton, Nersessova, Schindler)
• Make a proposal for why one approach to designing the built environment is better than another (Scholl and Gulwadi, Bazelon, Brooks, King)
• Answer the question of how the built environment came to be a certain way, and how it reflects social, political, historical, or aesthetic causes (Schindler, Tick, Hocks)

Thesis: A historical perspective of a built environment is needed in order to understand the origins of contemporary social, political, and environmental crisis. Furthermore an historical perspective enables the viewer with insight, by allowing them to analyze and get a better interpretation of what and why their economy is undergoing environmental issues.  Being cognizant of the historical content behinds Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn District acknowledges the viewer of current issues it’s enduring such as the increased poverty rate, architectural exclusion, and gender inequality. From wars, to riots, and leading the world’s largest civil rights reform, Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn District disguises its environmental disparity by acknowledging the change in its economic development. Being cognizant of the historical content of an environment allows for the current issue to be diagnosed at the roots enabling an intellectual perspective for exploring the philosophical background of the issue.

Hook:

1. Claim: People cannot apprehend the rhetoric of a built environment unless they are somewhat cognizant of its history.
2.  Claim Becoming more cognizant of an environments history reinforces the five senses of a quality community.
3. Claim: Historic preservation promotes positive advantages allowing for the community to become more globalized while also depriving the community of  its cultural mis-chiefs society restricts on them.
4. Claim: Utilizing historic cultivation is key to economic and environmental growth and can decrease the amount of economic and political issue in an economy.
5. Claim:The Vast majority of buildings in Atlanta (including Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn District itself)  that was architecturally designed have gained its significance through local history itself.
6. Claim: Historic Resources and preservation are key components of vital success when alluring tourism.
7. Claim: Historic preservation allows for ancient landmarks and monuments to be acknowledged and projected producing more holistic landscapes.
8. claim:Knowledge is key” because what you don’t know can have a significant impact your cognitive ability to adapt and learn from your environment and its surroundings.
9. Claim: The cultural assets of an economy (music, dance, visual arts, morals, values, way of life, and etc.) are inherently influenced and enhanced by the historical context in which they were created and evolved over time.

conclusion: The rhetoric of the Sweet Atlanta’s Auburn district comes from “within”. A “within” that directly lies well in the mainstream of ancient souvenirs which has evolved over the course of 20 years alluring tourist and other travelers. Being cognizant of Atalanta’s antiquity possesses a more oriented atmosphere of sustainability and furthermore enlightens the viewer with a sense of conformity. Atlanta has made tremendous improvement when it comes to orchestrating a hectic environment with rapid political and economic development  but yet the environmental inequality is still left unresolved. When perceiving an environment from an historical perspective it grants the reader with cognition, enabling that third eye; allowing them to see things that were once oblivious to them. Historical preservation has often been portrayed as the alternative to economic development. Some believe that we should either have historic preservation or we could have economic growth.  This decision is absolutely an invalid way of attacking the problem. I suggest that acknowledging environmental issues from a historical perspective because this allows people to decompose the problem at the roots creating a more homeostasis environment decreasing political economic and environmental controversy. “Only the foolish community will make the choice between historic preservation and economic development. The wise community will effectively utilize its historic built environment to meet the economic, social and cultural needs of its citizens well into the future.”