March
7
March
7
Interior #2
Walking inside of the restaurant it was very packed and loud, from the people talking to the workers screaming out orders. The line grew shorter quickly and I received my food within ten minutes. The inside is not a open floor concept, it has to dine in areas. One area is more private for a large group, like the baseball teams that were there, and an open are for other customers.
March
7
Interior #1
Hapeville chick-fil-a the original building.The building still looks to same as when it was first built. Other restaurants are modern, but this one is old fashioned. I took this on a Tuesday although there are no cars in the picture it was packed inside. Located right around the airport and Porch office.
February
25
Annotated Bibliographies: 4-6
#4
Konrad, Miriam Fiedler. Transporting Atlanta. [electronic Resource] : The Mode of Mobility under Construction. 2006., 2006. EBSCOhost. Web.
This book was about how the greatest struggles are all centered around mobility and the lack thereof. From years ago starting from ” forty years in the desert, to the middle passage, the Trail of Tears, diaspora, dislocation, expatriation, repatriation, immigration, emigration, access to work, school, play, home and so much more.” This book also talks about how if we add more cars we should add more roads and that would obscure the view, of what we call natural and what is looked to be obvious blurring the lines of progress. Atlanta traffic problem is not just known by people who live there, but travelers know what to expect. The traffic is so bad when talking about Atlanta comedians jokes are often about the traffic. The book talks about how the number of cars rise while the roads seem to shrink.”The built environment both proscribes and describes where and how we are going and the discourse that both reflects and creates that environment too often goes examined.” The government have not taken in account of the growing population not just in people, but in number of drivers we gain each year. Disputes over land usage has slowed the process of expansion and progress in soothing out the main problems we have in Atlanta’s traffic. Since i commute to school I understand the traffic problem. I do not have class till twelve but i have to wake up at nine and leave by ten just to get to school and find parking.
#5
Hankins, Katherine B., Robert Cochran, and Kate Driscoll Derickson. “Making Space, Making Race: Reconstituting White Privilege In Buckhead, Atlanta.” Social & Cultural Geography 13.4 (2012): 379. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.
This book was about the unchanging world of Buckhead. If you wanted to describe Georgia’s Buckhead you could compare it to Georgetown in Washington. Buckhead is almost identical to the Buckhead in 1990. The mixture of night clubs and old money and around 81 percent white. Unlike Atlanta’s population of whites which is 33 percent. This book describes how the “tradition” of Buckhead population has put aside the growing opportunities for the rest of Atlanta. “This book contributes to our understanding of the ways in which racial discourses materialize in the remaking of the built environment and associated social geographies.”(Hankins, Katherine) This helps my understanding of the built environment because of a previous article discussed in class. To keep certain race of people out, in the past, they used the built environment to create homes too expensive for the minorities. This is still being used today by the markets in Buckhead. “…decades Buckhead had been the epicenter of wealth in Atlanta, characterized by expensive real estate and luxury retail.”(Hankins, Katherine) The six blocks of misunderstood Atlanta has outsider looking into the separation. This article contributes to the built environment description by discovering a space in which the built environment has made exclusive to a consistent group of people.
#6
Konrad, Miriam Fiedler. Transporting Atlanta. [electronic Resource] : The Mode of Mobility under Construction. 2006., 2006. EBSCOhost. Web.
This is a collection of cases where people have witnessed the homelessness in Atlanta. A mixture of religious leaders government officials have commented on the visible homelessness. Most believe that what you do not see does not exist. The homelessness of Atlanta is visible and can be seen on most streets. It was thought that different government programs should be set up to help the different group of people, the visible poor. The cases were collected in waves to show the difference between two times. the 1900s-1970s and 1975-2000. It is easier to hide the poverty now then it was in the past. To hide the poor we use the built environment to tear down older buildings and build new expensive places. These actions force the poor out and away from the public eye. The religious leaders took the plan to recognize visible homelessness by giving shelter to those in need. When the number of visible homeless grew but the space the churches had to house them did not, then is when the population began to see the problem at hand. “he experience of sheltering and the confrontations with downtown business and political leaders fostered the development of frames with greater complexity and highlighted internal contradictions in the movement.” In my opinion the visible homeless are growing more rapidly then building being reconstructed and built. To fix the problems we have we must first identify them.
February
17
Reflection
So far this year i have completed reading summaries, annotated bibliographies and descriptions. The process of writing for this class is extremely different from what I have done in the past. The process of writing in this class is easier then previous classes. I have learned that using scholarly documents are easier then googling several different sites. My first summary was, I felt, my best work but my grading says other wise. I have a lot of great ideas and i understand the general topic of an article but I don’t have the skills to chose the main points and relay them in my own words. Now that i received feed back about my summary i applied it to the most recent submitted summary. Now i believe I stayed on topic and stayed in the tone of the article but I did it in less words. I couldn’t meet the minimum of 500 words that was required.
I always try to attempt to do the extra points activities not only for the points but because they are helpful in doing the projects. The writers 2.0 helps me print out what I’m going to do and when. Going forward I plan to ask more questions on the summaries and other projects. My new approach to the assignments is to go ahead of the weeks and do my assignments, that are allowed, earlier so that when class comes I can ask questions and see what i need to improve before i have to turn the assignments in. I will also, to earn extra points, go to office hours, and also travel around Atlanta more and take pictures and discover more place. I hope to grow more in the classes to come and be top point earner every week.
February
15
Reading Summary 4: His & Hers: Designing for a Post-Gender Society
Right now we are in a gender revolution. Walls are being torn down and norms are being challenged. At a baby shower when revealing the sex of the baby the most common sign are pink for girl and blue for boy. This country was built on the foundation that he is better than she, and the years following, the wave continued. In the designs we see in some of the most successful businesses are not only male dominated in work but also in design. According to today’s view men and women are becoming more and more equal. “Masculine and feminine definitions are being switched and obscured, but this essentially a human phenomenon.” (Suzanne Tick) Which is basically saying Men can do what females do women can do anything men can do.
Feminism is making its way back into the system and not in a minor way. Women are not empowering only women to stand up but also men to speak out. People are stepping away from labels.For example, college students do not fill in the gender part of forms when taking a test. Children in middle school are speaking out on how they feel and are getting their gender roles changed to unspecified, according to the article. Transgender citizens weren’t viewed as anyone, but soon changed when the CEO United Therapeutics was reported the highest paid female, although born male. (Suzanne Tick) As Martine ‘Apartheid of sex’ was published its become common to say five billion people equals five billion different sexual identities.
The “rules” of gender have all been broken and our view on a male and female have all been diminished to the anatomy instead of the ability and appearance. The only real thing that separate men and women are anatomy. Men look like women,and women look like me, women are taking on men roles in politics and in business, and men are becoming stay at home dads. In the Magazine article Making Bathrooms More ‘Accommodating’ it talks about the challenge of transgender and the bathroom. Big companies like google have taken note of the changes and adopted gender neutral and unisex bathrooms. (Suzanne Tick) In a time where gender is only anatomy, how do we design a bathroom fit for everyone, and accepted by everyone. Although,we have unisex bathrooms they are one staled and lockable, which makes them private bathrooms not public.This is not like the Disability act that required everyone to follow a certain guide line. You can’t add rules and regulations to fix this problem. It is just the beginning of the gender neutral design era but this issue can’t wait. During this human phenomenon of post gender world how do we accept someone physically but not socially? I agree with the article; designing in a gender neutral environment is more challenging because you don’t have guide lines, nor support or understanding from certain groups. It took many years, protests and wars for things like race and sexuality to be accepted and to make rules protecting it.
His & Hers: Designing for a Post-Gender Society” by Suzanne Tick
February
15
Reading Summary 3: Making Bathrooms More Accommodating
The Equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment gave the right of equal protection under the law to every citizen regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. As of June 2015 same sex marriage is legal. During this time and age gender walls have broken down. Men do what females do and Females can do what men do, but one thing still separate us. The most universally form of gender separation are bathrooms. The male bathrooms have the sign of a person and the women bathroom has a person wearing a dress, but none for transgender people. The way things are now are because of norms that have been since anyone can remember. When women began to enter the work force the bathrooms were redesigned to fit the “weaker body of the working woman”.(Bazelon, Emily) The bathrooms for women were intended to be a resting place for women, while away from home. Women were seen to be weak and prone to fainting. At the end of last year Houston had a voting for broad equal rights ordinance.It stated that there would be no discrimination against any citizen according to gender, age, race, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Voters rejected the idea with tee shirts and TV ads focusing on the voter biggest fears. (Bazelon, Emily)
Schools have adapted to the change on how we call and recognize transgender students but have yet to treating them as what they want/are. The main desire of solution is for everyone to accommodate them. To learn to accept what they did not before. A transgender 12 year old says that she is allowed to shower with her other girl classmates, and do not feel weird when she walks in the locker room. Activists, however, have recognized the accommodation as a distinction between normal and the other. (Bazelon, Emily) They believe there is a norm and someone comes along and asks to change that norm; to accommodate them. That is not the only way to look at the word accommodating. There are time were to accommodate means “two way street”. (Bazelon, Emily) We use this method every day, for example, relationships.We give up something, the other party gives up something, so that we can live peacefully together. I believe that separation is not based on feeling or wants, but proof. Bathrooms are based on the parts off a person not on the mind. A basic human want is to have a sense that you belong.
BAZELON, EMILY. “Making Bathrooms More Accommodating.” New York Times Magazine. 17 November 2015. Web. 2 January 2016.
February
13
Built Environment Description- Marta Arts Center
My External built environment is Marta Arts Center. Its located 1255 west Peachtree in Midtown Atlanta. The art center was opened December 18, 1982. The artifacts and art could be seen from the moment you step off of the train. The artifacts are arranged so every step you take and every corner you turn you see a different piece of art. There are no parking spaces for a couple of miles down the road, so its more convenient to take the train then drive. The area is meant for walking and you see more when your able to stop and go. There aren’t many obstacles for walking, but i did notice a lot of stairs and the only ramp like passage way, was the entrance and exits for the buses, but its dangerous for people to go in and out of that area because buses fly in and out of every few minutes. The area was really modern styled, so the colors were neutral tones and gray. Everything seemed to be modeled after the concrete kind of cold and uninviting feeling. It was very cold and i went at night, so maybe it would seem ordinary in the morning. At night though the lights from the building and different colors of the art shined through. It was my first time there, 2nd time on Marta train, so me and my friends were kind of lost, but some people passing by walked with us explaining each building. Along the street there were pictures of people who help shape downtown Atlanta and the art center. The overall feeling was good and fun and the view was really beautiful.
February
11
Exterior #5
February
11
