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In the article, “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment,” Schindler exhibits a broad overview of various infrastructures exemplifying ethnic and behavioral barriers in many works. She analyzes the role of architecture segregating and causing contradictions within communities. Many rich white people opposed to accommodating transportations, because of the fear that it may increase crime. This relates to John Toon’s article “Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)”, in which he acknowledges that the Metropolitan Atlanta Transit Authority is known as the ninth-largest transit service system in the United States. MARTA was built in 1971 to help people who could not afford cars to use this as a transportation in certain areas to reach their destination. Toon interprets the inside of MARTA and the usefulness it provides. He describes how MARTA works and helps accommodating people in difficult areas. This article supports MARTA, which helps diversifies and allows communication in various communities. The architectural design of MARTA is spread throughout several areas and is a cooperative transportation system for everyone. Schindler and Toon both analyze the main problem of people in situations of transportation due to their race economic standing and social position.
The MARTA is a very modern system with ventilation and comfortable seating. Originally, to access the MARTA users had to use the token-based fare collection system. Now they have the new breeze card, which people use to load money on the card and use to enter and exit the station over time. The card is their ticket that allows them to use it an unlimited amount of times throughout the day. THe outside is open and has feasible access. This allowed the population to feel comforted and at ease to use the system. Many people would prefer to ride the MARTA and use it to reach many locations. It is open to many people rich or poor. Although these accommodations helped, the rich people use to degrade the lower class in many ways such as transportation for many people was very difficult and there were not systems to help before. Toon, Monroe, and Schindler all examine the situation about transportation issue and how people treated others with this situation. The methods and extent of how architectural structures are built affected the community and the population.
Schindler article points out the problems of the public dilemmas through the built structures; the MARTA is a helping system that resolved many of these problems. The MARTA was created to ease the transportation situation for many people who conflict in discriminating architectural structures. Schindler’s article analyzes the split between people and their trouble for getting around places, rich people have the accommodations to get around anywhere while poor people have difficulty. The MARTA allows all kinds of people to reach any destination. It reaches various places that allow riders to visit many areas that they may not have before. MARTA expands in various ways, including forty-eight miles of track and thirty-eight stations. The MARTA also operates in many different areas, such as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Interstate 285, Interstate 85, and Georgia 400. It has many stations located in different counties, which allows the poplution to come from a variety of places. Toon explains how the different systems of MARTA’s transit spread and diverges to various places.The rich refused to have transportation such as MARTA, but the creation relieved how the area used to be. MARTA was predicted to bring danger and struggle to the community, so it was limited to many areas. Schindler presents that restrictions limited numerous people to travel and reach areas they needed to. Barriers such as walls and fences also conflicted the transportation for the poor and colored. Access to many communities was limited and developed complications for living for several individuals.Many people ignore the importance of easy accommodations.
Although the MARTA gave many accommodations, according to Monroe in the article,”Where It All Went Wrong.”, the MARTA did not completely do its job. He analyzes how the government failed to expand the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) into the suburban areas in Atlanta. Monroe acknowledges the issue of the system not expanding enough due to difficulties. He explains that not enlarging the MARTA was a tremendous mistake that created the region’s transportation infrastructure. His overview of how the MARTA could not expand was due to the economic standing.
The MARTA had financial issues such as the referendum not being able to fun that conflicted in the enlargement of the system in many different areas. The MARTA was used for many people who could not afford cars and helped many with time management. This system made a major impact on the public transportation in Atlanta. Financial problems had a major effect on the expansion and growth of the system. Many problems such as the economy, the government, and public opinions had a great effect on the creation of the station. The controversy of the expansion versus the usefulness made a major impact on how the community utilizes the MARTA now. The MARTA is now the dominant method of transportation in Atlanta and many other countries. Monroe provides the outline of how the MARTA was established to bring the people together and give them the conveyance needed. In the article by Vock,“The Driver Behind Public Transit’s Transformation in Atlanta” the CEO of MARTA, Keith Parker explains how MARTA struggles with the state legislature and a bad public image. Since the 1970’s, MARTA trapped in racial, regional and partisan acrimony. Due to the state legislatures criticism, the MARTA has not been able to expand. Most of the national public transit agencies get a quarter of their income from the state funds, but MARTA is dependent on local sales tax. This situation creates defenselessness for an economic downtown. Keith Parker explains his struggles to try to financially improve the MARTA in order to enlighten the aspect of it. Vock evaluates Keith’s attempt to persuade the state legislature to approve and support the system, “So I viewed that as a major thing to work through how we change the image of the agency”. Keith plans many determined expansions to improve the MARTA transit agency and make it much more compatible for passengers. This article analyses the complexities for the MARTA and how it affects the passengers and the agency.
The MARTA also concedes diversity. Since the MARTA diverges in many locations, which allows all kinds and many of people to use it. People from any area were able to use the MARTA, even the rich. This system is a tool for the public to gain satisfaction in their living situation. Toon presents this system as a key to acquiring neutrality. Monroe gives the knowledge of what the MARTA had to go through to be able to accommodate the public. Schindler acknowledged the issue of public dispute because of their standards.
Monroe, Vock, and Toon all provide an overview of how the MARTA is a very useful system for people in helpless situations that Schindler reflects in her article. Schindler portrays an outlook of how the built area conflicts with how people treat others and the environment. Monroe’s interpretation of the MARTA depicts how important the infrastructure is to the community. The barrier between how people treat others and how the area is built describes the context of the nature of the aspect of generosity and bias attitudes. Architectural structures such as walls, bridges, fences, streets, and neighborhoods were all built in opposing accommodations for unhealthy people. The confliction between the way people treat others because of their financial or social status created many architectural differences. MARTA not only changed the way the Atlanta area work in transportation but also reflected on people’s perspectives.
All the articles define the architectural issue and how the problems are solved and created. Schindler, Monroe, Vock, and Toon all acknowledge the problems people faced when they could not transport themselves. Each author defines how the MARTA helped the situation and created tranquility of people who taunted others.