Westin

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edit: Purely as a matter of interest, here is the essay I just finished writing for this class. Some of the ideas are a little less connected than I'd hoped but whatever, not like any of you will notice. Har har, seriously though this is weird stuff you'd have to have taken the class to sort of half understand it like we do.

In a world where the population is growing at unprecedented rates, space is becoming increasingly vital to the way that people experience a place. Many crowded urban areas are facing the problem of needing to pack more and more people into a given area, but at the same time understanding the need of the general populace to have space incorporated into their community. This can be seen in most major American cities, where, for example, even as real estate continues to fetch higher and higher premiums, parks are still incorporated into the landscape to provide an area that is uncluttered with the necessities of daily life and business.

Part of this need is that humans are not like simple animals or machines, that is, they don’t simply respond predictably to given stimuli. Although people could be stuffed into cages and fed, given one door that leads them to their jobs, this would be a far cry from addressing the needs of individuals, although it would certainly be maximally efficient, space-wise. As David Seamon surmised, understanding the concepts of human experience and interaction with an environment is not simply recognizing patterns for human behavior and exploiting them – although certain patterns can be found when examing a community of individuals – but rather, understanding and embracing the role that experiences, emotions, and other cognitive faculties at the individual level play in a person’s experience of space. Thus, space cannot simply be added as an afterthought to squalid, space-efficient living conditions. The mere presence of a space does nothing to incorporate that space into a community. Here a paradox arises: how can space be meaningfully integrated into a community while keeping in mind the growing need to add more and more people to this community?

Peachtree Plaza

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edit: Purely as a matter of interest, here is the essay I just finished writing for this class. Some of the ideas are a little less connected than I'd hoped but whatever, not like any of you will notice. Har har, seriously though this is weird stuff you'd have to have taken the class to sort of half understand it like we do.

In a world where the population is growing at unprecedented rates, space is becoming increasingly vital to the way that people experience a place. Many crowded urban areas are facing the problem of needing to pack more and more people into a given area, but at the same time understanding the need of the general populace to have space incorporated into their community. This can be seen in most major American cities, where, for example, even as real estate continues to fetch higher and higher premiums, parks are still incorporated into the landscape to provide an area that is uncluttered with the necessities of daily life and business.

Part of this need is that humans are not like simple animals or machines, that is, they don’t simply respond predictably to given stimuli. Although people could be stuffed into cages and fed, given one door that leads them to their jobs, this would be a far cry from addressing the needs of individuals, although it would certainly be maximally efficient, space-wise. As David Seamon surmised, understanding the concepts of human experience and interaction with an environment is not simply recognizing patterns for human behavior and exploiting them – although certain patterns can be found when examing a community of individuals – but rather, understanding and embracing the role that experiences, emotions, and other cognitive faculties at the individual level play in a person’s experience of space. Thus, space cannot simply be added as an afterthought to squalid, space-efficient living conditions. The mere presence of a space does nothing to incorporate that space into a community. Here a paradox arises: how can space be meaningfully integrated into a community while keeping in mind the growing need to add more and more people to this community?

Buckhead

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edit: Purely as a matter of interest, here is the essay I just finished writing for this class. Some of the ideas are a little less connected than I'd hoped but whatever, not like any of you will notice. Har har, seriously though this is weird stuff you'd have to have taken the class to sort of half understand it like we do.

In a world where the population is growing at unprecedented rates, space is becoming increasingly vital to the way that people experience a place. Many crowded urban areas are facing the problem of needing to pack more and more people into a given area, but at the same time understanding the need of the general populace to have space incorporated into their community. This can be seen in most major American cities, where, for example, even as real estate continues to fetch higher and higher premiums, parks are still incorporated into the landscape to provide an area that is uncluttered with the necessities of daily life and business.

Part of this need is that humans are not like simple animals or machines, that is, they don’t simply respond predictably to given stimuli. Although people could be stuffed into cages and fed, given one door that leads them to their jobs, this would be a far cry from addressing the needs of individuals, although it would certainly be maximally efficient, space-wise. As David Seamon surmised, understanding the concepts of human experience and interaction with an environment is not simply recognizing patterns for human behavior and exploiting them – although certain patterns can be found when examing a community of individuals – but rather, understanding and embracing the role that experiences, emotions, and other cognitive faculties at the individual level play in a person’s experience of space. Thus, space cannot simply be added as an afterthought to squalid, space-efficient living conditions. The mere presence of a space does nothing to incorporate that space into a community. Here a paradox arises: how can space be meaningfully integrated into a community while keeping in mind the growing need to add more and more people to this community?

Midtown

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edit: Purely as a matter of interest, here is the essay I just finished writing for this class. Some of the ideas are a little less connected than I'd hoped but whatever, not like any of you will notice. Har har, seriously though this is weird stuff you'd have to have taken the class to sort of half understand it like we do.

In a world where the population is growing at unprecedented rates, space is becoming increasingly vital to the way that people experience a place. Many crowded urban areas are facing the problem of needing to pack more and more people into a given area, but at the same time understanding the need of the general populace to have space incorporated into their community. This can be seen in most major American cities, where, for example, even as real estate continues to fetch higher and higher premiums, parks are still incorporated into the landscape to provide an area that is uncluttered with the necessities of daily life and business.

Part of this need is that humans are not like simple animals or machines, that is, they don’t simply respond predictably to given stimuli. Although people could be stuffed into cages and fed, given one door that leads them to their jobs, this would be a far cry from addressing the needs of individuals, although it would certainly be maximally efficient, space-wise. As David Seamon surmised, understanding the concepts of human experience and interaction with an environment is not simply recognizing patterns for human behavior and exploiting them – although certain patterns can be found when examing a community of individuals – but rather, understanding and embracing the role that experiences, emotions, and other cognitive faculties at the individual level play in a person’s experience of space. Thus, space cannot simply be added as an afterthought to squalid, space-efficient living conditions. The mere presence of a space does nothing to incorporate that space into a community. Here a paradox arises: how can space be meaningfully integrated into a community while keeping in mind the growing need to add more and more people to this community?

Home

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edit: Purely as a matter of interest, here is the essay I just finished writing for this class. Some of the ideas are a little less connected than I'd hoped but whatever, not like any of you will notice. Har har, seriously though this is weird stuff you'd have to have taken the class to sort of half understand it like we do.

In a world where the population is growing at unprecedented rates, space is becoming increasingly vital to the way that people experience a place. Many crowded urban areas are facing the problem of needing to pack more and more people into a given area, but at the same time understanding the need of the general populace to have space incorporated into their community. This can be seen in most major American cities, where, for example, even as real estate continues to fetch higher and higher premiums, parks are still incorporated into the landscape to provide an area that is uncluttered with the necessities of daily life and business.

Part of this need is that humans are not like simple animals or machines, that is, they don’t simply respond predictably to given stimuli. Although people could be stuffed into cages and fed, given one door that leads them to their jobs, this would be a far cry from addressing the needs of individuals, although it would certainly be maximally efficient, space-wise. As David Seamon surmised, understanding the concepts of human experience and interaction with an environment is not simply recognizing patterns for human behavior and exploiting them – although certain patterns can be found when examing a community of individuals – but rather, understanding and embracing the role that experiences, emotions, and other cognitive faculties at the individual level play in a person’s experience of space. Thus, space cannot simply be added as an afterthought to squalid, space-efficient living conditions. The mere presence of a space does nothing to incorporate that space into a community. Here a paradox arises: how can space be meaningfully integrated into a community while keeping in mind the growing need to add more and more people to this community?