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My feedback: I love this paper. It gives a clear explanation on the access that certain people have within the regions of Georgia State. Also the use of rhetorical questions were a very nice touch to your paper which gave the style of your paper a good reasoning. The sentence fluency and diction used was also a eye catcher, and the hook stating the advise and and progress of the students and the overcoming obstacles and not being able to access certain things was a great push for your thesis. The best part was the images you added, which ultimately supported your claim. The only thing I couldn’t really conclude about this paper was that references. I recommend you to to make sure thee are well explained and understandable, so if it was presented to a different type of audience, it wouldn’t be complicated at all. Great Work!

T: The design of traffic infrastructure throughout G.S.U. is successful in some ways and a failure in others.

I. The orientation of the streets on campus creates confusion and inconvenience for vehicle traffic through campus.

What is the orientation of the streets on campus? WHich streets? Where? What directions?

HOw does it create confusions? To whom? When? Where? Why?

HOw does it create inconvenience? To whom? When? Where? Why?

II. The public transportation locations and routes create confusion and inconvenience for pedestrian and vehicle traffic on campus.

III. The sidewalks and crosswalks throughout campus somewhat accommodate all of the students on campus, but they also create confusion and at times dangerous situations.

IV. The scheduling and locations of construction projects involving transportation around campus (vehicular and pedestrian) creates confusion, frustration, and inconvenience.

Claim: Traffic Infrastructure within Georgia State University must be improved to reduce the rate of confusion amongst the student body.

Transportation Infrastructure: refers to the framework that supports our transport system. This includes roads, railways, ports and airports.

Traffic Congestion:  is a condition on transport networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.

Gridlocks: a traffic jam affecting a whole network of intersecting streets.

Merging: blend or cause to blend gradually into something else so as to become indistinguishable from it.

Solargraphy:  is the art of pinhole photography and a part of Space Art

Campus Infrastructure: the basic physical and organizational structures of a campus

Commuters: a person who travels some distance to work on a regular basis.

Sustainability: is the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely.

Accessibility: also refers to the quality of being available when needed.

Human Capital: the skills, knowledge, and experience possessed by an individual or population, viewed in terms of their value or cost to an organization or country.

“An Economic Analysis of Transportation Infrastructure … (n.d.).                                              

Retrieved November 9, 2016, from https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/economic_analysis_of_transportation_investments.pdf

The National Economic council talks about the different infrastructure investments affect not only the level of economic output but geographic distribution of economic activity. The source also suggest that infrastructure investment can also raise property values’ particularly if these investments bring improvements in local living standards. I agree with the statement saying that investing in infrastructure provides short term benefits to states and localities to address their critical needs.

(n.d.). Traffic Congestion on a University Campus A Consideration of Unconventional Remedies to Nontraditional Transportation Patterns.

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from http://www.academia.edu/4620044/Traffic_Congestion_on_a_University_Campus_A_Consideration_of_Unconventional_Remedies_to_Nontraditional_Transportation_Patterns

David Kaplan describes the universities are in a special position to take information related to the patterns and causes of congrestion and apply these to their planning goals. The source also refers to a situation where bottlenecks occur at intersetions or where some form of merging takes place. The results in the situation could be gridlocks, stop and go traffic, or full scale traffic jams.

(2015). Device that caused traffic gridlock was GSU student project.

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-state-says-suspicious-device-was-student-projec/53805840

The WSB new report explains the exposed deviced found around Georgia State’s campus. It was said to be a environmental distraction from the street work. It found out to be a simple solarography project modeled on a popular global project and introduces students to different technology.

(n.d.). Campus Infrastructure Examples – National Wildlife Federation.

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from https://www.nwf.org/Campus-Ecology/Get-Involved/Design-a-Project/Examples-by-Topic/Campus-Infrastructure.aspx

The NWF talks about the many colleges and universities that are like small cities and have roads, parking lots, utility systems, homes and offices. They make the theory that the bigger the campus, the larger and more complex is the network of systems and services that keep it all going.  The article also states the environmental impact, and the general improvements needed to make colleges and universities a better transport area.

Welcome. (n.d.).

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from http://www.traffic.gsu.edu/

The Georgia State commuters conducted a study that will observe what route choices the participants make while driving. In addition, they will come to meetings where they will drive in simulated driving environments using computerized inferaces. No advancd computer skills are required for this. This was a paid study was undertaken by three different universities: Georgia State University, Louisana State University, and the University of Central Florida.

Campus Infrastructure & Environment. (2015).

Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/administration/planning/planning/instplanning/node/200351

The office of assessment provides information on Milbury’s finest physical environment. The college practices responsible landscaping, buildings, and human capital. In all the areas of the institution they promote the principles of environmental sustainability, accessability, and  the efficient and coordinated use of human capital.

“An Economic Analysis of Transportation Infrastructure … (n.d.).             

Retrieved November 9, 2016, from   https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/economic_analysis_of_transportation_investments.pdf

(n.d.). Traffic Congestion on a University Campus A Consideration of Unconventional Remedies to Nontraditional Transportation Patterns.

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from http://www.academia.edu/4620044/Traffic_Congestion_on_a_University_Campus_A_Consideration_of_Unconventional_Remedies_to_Nontraditional_Transportation_Patterns

(2015). Device that caused traffic gridlock was GSU student project.

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-state-says-suspicious-device-was-student-projec/53805840

(n.d.). Campus Infrastructure Examples – National Wildlife Federation.

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from https://www.nwf.org/Campus-Ecology/Get-Involved/Design-a-Project/Examples-by-Topic/Campus-Infrastructure.aspx

Welcome. (n.d.).

Retrieved November 09, 2016, from http://www.traffic.gsu.edu/

Campus Infrastructure & Environment. (2015).

Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/administration/planning/planning/instplanning/node/200351

Infrastructure Contest: Modesto Junior College Campus Connection. (n.d.).

Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/10/24/infrastructure-contest-modesto-campus-connection

“Originally used in the 1890’s to describe a belief in sexual equality and commitment to eradicate sexual domination and transform society, feminism depends on an understanding. . . . . . sexuality is held as the cause of their oppression.” (Page 7)

This quote explains the way people have a understanding  of  feminism. It is mostly understood to be the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. There are some pros and cons to the understanding of feminism and which many do say that it was a a cause of being a cruel and unjust subject to touch on.

“Spaces can enhance or restrict, nuture, or impoverish”. (Page 4)

This quote talks about how the different spaces they provide for women and men can enhance, block them from something, it can also care for the development and improvement of women, or it can exhaust the strength, vitality, or natural fertility of the entire situation.

“The variation between first-wave and second-wave feminism can be summarized. . . . . women and from each other.” (Page 16)

This quote summarized the first and second wave of feminism which is that it is a shift in focus from equality to difference, from addressing the inequalities of the state, to addressing the differences of women from men and from each other.

“The goal is to encourage urban policies that promote justice, sustainability, and inclusion in cities.” (Page 1)

This quote is interesting to me because I never really hear about the connections of urban policies. I usually hear about students doing research within urban areas. To promote justice in cities I feel as if using urban policy would really boost the goal that they are trying to reach. It will help the cities remain diverse and productive indefinitely.

“Lefebvre, as you will see, imagines the right to the city entirely differently: as a cry that initiated a radical struggle to more beyond both the state and capitalism.” (Page 2)

This is interesting to me because we have been needing a cry for help for struggle of a economic and political system in which the country’s trade is run by private owners for profit.  That is why in the rest of the reading he tells about the different initiatives used to go about this problem. I also liked this quote because it helps the very interesting intro to the advocate to the right of the city for slum dwellers.

“Most agree that it is the everyday experience of inhabiting the city that entitles one to a right to the city rather than ones nation-state citizenship.” (Page 146)

This quote caught my eye because it talks about the experience of the city not having a good solution to the ones that have a entitled right of citizenship. I feel as if if you live in the city or have purchased a residence in the city for more then 10 years, then you are considered a citizen. If not you are not considered a citizen. In my opinion I feel as if the decision should be as simple as that.

“Though studies have shown that proximity and conversation can produce creative ideas, there’s little research on the designs needed to facilitate the process”. The development of the closeness of spaces and places create conversations that create ideas. This is something that we still don’t know much about but they are similar in many ways.

“In many of the new buildings, an industrial look prevails, along with an end to privacy”. This is one of the commonalities of conversation and the proximity of spaces. This is go into detail about the ranging of thing and the restrictions of different places.

“Staircases and halls are wide and often daylit, encouraging people to dwell between their appointments in hopes of having a creative collision”. These are the meeting places of many co-workers and students. Many people tend to socialize or talk in hall ways or staircases. Also I notice if people want to have like a private conversations or discuss something, they might step out into the hallway or a staircase maybe.

“Being in bigger interactive spaces encourages thinking, while being in a box of a room encourages box thinking.” This is an opinion which states that if you are in a bigger room with more people you will think more and broaden your ideas, but if you are in a smaller room with less people you will still have a slight simple mind and you ideas will be shortened.

Scholl and Gulwadi mention a lot of important aspects in this piece of writing. They make it a understanding that most people don’t pay attention to the built environment around campuses. The resilient spaces in which the learning environment encompasses provide a clear interpretation on what kind of campus it is, and what certain things were meant for. In the text its reads, “Americans expect a university campus to look different than other places (Gumprecht, 2007) and that the campus “expresses something about the quality of academic life, as well as its role as a citizen of the community in which it is located” (Dober, 1996, p.47).

I strongly agree that the campus does express something about the quality of academic life, because how much learning experience a campus can provide. From reading this article, it seems that the development of “college life’ truly depends on the college you got to and the responsibilities of it. The concepts of the college used to build them were obviously built in a certain type of way for a reason. The physical landscape features have a direct impact on shaping human behavior, and offer students active, experiential submissive.

In conclusion, I feel that this article made very important point on how influential landscaping is on a college campus. A well-designed campus is more than likely to have an importance to the students’ academic subjects and higher education. With that, there is a major difference between older campuses ( a campus that has been around for many years), and a new campus ( a campus that has just been built). All in all, people go to a college campus to get there education in a place where they feel most comfortable in. If the atmosphere and the way it looks satisfies you, then that is the college for you.

citation: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/jls/article/view/972/777

The rooftop at Ponce City Market is surrounding by the most visited spots in Atlanta, Ga. It seems to be very popular from all the people that visit the rooftop. The landscapes are very detailed mostly squares I noticed, and very well placed along the walls and the floors of the roof top. Some of the faded spots on the roof give a clear interpretation that the building is certainly old, and is being fixed almost everyday. The way the building was built around the environment, and where they wanted the roof top to be placed shows that they wanted everyone who went up there to remember the time that they had on the rooftop was a good one.

The rooftop on Ponce.

The rooftop at Ponce is a really nice experience and a very good place to visit if you want to relax or if you want to just take a good picture. The classic structure, which is the area’s largest adaptive reuse project, has been reinvented as a vibrant community hub housing the Central Food Hall, various shops, flats and offices, all while pointing back to the roots of its inception. The market infuses vigor and excitement into this historically-significant structure, located in one of Atlanta’s most cherished neighborhoods.

Rooftop at Ponce