Senior Transportation -- Adam Karabenli

After reading Paul's post, I found this video on senior transportation:



This video also shows how a community is trying to create a better sense of community by offering means of senior transportation. This senior bus service creates a safer community by taking possible vissually or audibly impared drivers off the roads. Also, this bus service increases how many senior citizens acually get out of their house. This contributes to a more age diverse community. Finally, this bus service provides a time for seniors to interact with each other and their community. This potentially creates a socially healthier society.

Sprawl in Atlanta -- Adam Karabenli

I also viewed Niall's video that he posted on suburban sprawl in Atlanta. The creators did a great job of showing how bad the traffic really is during rush hour. It's rediculous that it would take that much time just to travel 30 miles. And this is just one of the many interstated that travels into downtown Atlanta. One would think that the people who make this commute are crazy, and I kind of agree. If it were me, I would make the commute to the nearest MARTA train station and then ride the train. This not only would save time, it would also save money that is spent on wasted gas. In addition all this wasted gas is creating emissions that destroys the ozone layer. So, taking the train, or even car-pooling, is a multi-beneficial mode of transportation in Atlanta.

Senior Transporation

I found an article about transportation from my newspaper back in Virginia about transportation for seniors. There numerous events that go on at the local Senior Center that the elderly have a great time at, but their numbers are limited due to a lack of transportation for those that can't drive themselves or find a ride. Because of this, several senior citizens approached a local District Supervisor about this issue. To their surprise, the District Supervisors were aware of the issue and are looking for ways to fix it. The specific Supervisor that they talked to though, also mentioned that he hasn't heard anything about it recently though.
Because of this a meeting location, date, and time were listed for many citizens to come and argue their point and be heard.
I think that this article is a great example of showing citizens in communities taking action to better their community and imporve the lives of many people.
This also goes off of suburban nation in a way because it supports the confined limited elderly due to the necessary transportation.

-Paul DeVito

Sprawl Video

I think that the video that Niall found is perfect example of what we have been covering in terms of sprawl. The video not only touches on quite a few aspects that we discussed in class, but it also demonstrates sprawl in our area. This was a really great video that was very informative.

-Paul DeVito

Sprawl in Atlanta

I found this video on youtube. It is about sprawl in Atlanta and gives interviews of people living in atlanta and there views on it. I just thought that it would make sprawl more realistic becauses it shows it in our own town. The web address is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T2o8mRCOac

Niall Longobardi

Poster Project - Adam Karabenli

For my poster project, I decided to analyze this image from inhabitat.com. This image was a promo image for a competetion to redesign a community suburb that contributed towards sprawl. This website has become devoted towards possitively impacting the future of design, so that maybe one day sprawl can start to be reduced. In my poster project, I plan to address how these neighborhoods back up to these major highways. Also, these neighborhoods contain houses that are jam-packed together on neighborhood streets that curve into each other. This image shows the sheer worst of what sprawling neighborhoods are coming to. This image is supposed to motivate designers to devise a plan to help reduce sprawl. This contest had some compelling winners whose projects are shown below.

Poster Project

When we started to discuss this project and I was told to think of something that symbolizes something, I immediately thought of the Marine Corp. Museum by Quantico. I live less than 30 minutes from here and have been many times.
The Marine Corp. Museum is an amazing place. It is filled with symbolism, from the setup inside of the museum to the architecture of the building- meant to represent the well known WWII flag raising. This museum was built completely off of donations, and ended up getting more money than they actually needed for the museum. It is kept in excellent shape, and tells the story of the marines in an incredible depth and with immense power. I really do enjoy going here every time.
Then I read the requirements of the essay again and realized that the artifact we use has to symbolize a community, which the museum doesn't do... I was very upset.

-Paul DeVito