Misplacing the Blame for Our Troubles on ‘Flat, Not Tall’ Spaces: In all of its Glorious Stupidity
This essay talks about how our inability to properly predict the needs of the future finds ourselves in a predicament: welcome to the war on Sprawl. The sprawl is in reference to the suburbs and how we turned our once beautiful planet into a huge asphalt parking lot. We should’ve built more compact and upwards as opposed to flat. By doing this, it would save more area for the animals and nature. The analysis of this piece is going to dwell on its use of quotes, its world views, and my personal thoughts on the literature.
“…houses with yards and businesses with ample parking are ruining the country.”
Al Gore said this, a man who was a leading contender to be a leader of the United States of America. He is advocating stores not to have enough parking for their customers in an effort for more grass. Any store that did this would loose large amounts of business and would not last in our great capital market.
“The ideal is San Francisco’s densities of 50 to 100 units per acre. Crowding is good.”
Earlier in the paper Al Gore said, “If a family wants to buy an affordable house, they have to drive so far that a parent gets home too late to read a bedtime story.” I’ve been out to San Francisco many times and am well aware of their expensive real estate. If everyone is expected to live in crowded corners of the world, then that real estate would be even more expensive than the suburbs. Now there isn’t a yard to go with it, is that even worth the price of a bed time story?
The text appears to be meant for the reading of all. Instead, the work should’ve been directed towards people who have an actual say in the designs of city layout; the city planners. The entire essay tried to use ethos to convince the reader when logos, in this case, would be far more convincing. They would say that the building of houses, “Threatens many of our natural resources.” One should ask themselves, “What resources and by how much?” Is it worth giving up my back yard to be crammed into an apartment?”
This essay talks about how our inability to properly predict the needs of the future finds ourselves in a predicament: welcome to the war on Sprawl. The sprawl is in reference to the suburbs and how we turned our once beautiful planet into a huge asphalt parking lot. We should’ve built more compact and upwards as opposed to flat. By doing this, it would save more area for the animals and nature. The analysis of this piece is going to dwell on its use of quotes, its world views, and my personal thoughts on the literature.
“…houses with yards and businesses with ample parking are ruining the country.”
Al Gore said this, a man who was a leading contender to be a leader of the United States of America. He is advocating stores not to have enough parking for their customers in an effort for more grass. Any store that did this would loose large amounts of business and would not last in our great capital market.
“The ideal is San Francisco’s densities of 50 to 100 units per acre. Crowding is good.”
Earlier in the paper Al Gore said, “If a family wants to buy an affordable house, they have to drive so far that a parent gets home too late to read a bedtime story.” I’ve been out to San Francisco many times and am well aware of their expensive real estate. If everyone is expected to live in crowded corners of the world, then that real estate would be even more expensive than the suburbs. Now there isn’t a yard to go with it, is that even worth the price of a bed time story?
The text appears to be meant for the reading of all. Instead, the work should’ve been directed towards people who have an actual say in the designs of city layout; the city planners. The entire essay tried to use ethos to convince the reader when logos, in this case, would be far more convincing. They would say that the building of houses, “Threatens many of our natural resources.” One should ask themselves, “What resources and by how much?” Is it worth giving up my back yard to be crammed into an apartment?”
All one can do is speak their opinion and no one else’s; my verdict on this paper, distasteful. This essay shows no proven facts and simply tries to play with the ethics of people. The use of quotes was meant to help its pathos but in this case makes it sound unintelligent for the lacking of a better term. Iowa State was founded by the Morrill Act; America itself used its vast amount of land in its founding decades to save itself from massive debt. The use of land is in our history just as the use of capitalism. If one can afford a huge estate, then they have the God given right to buy it. To be told Americans must be put on ‘city reservations’ to let Bambi have a few more acres to roam is, in my opinion, against everything an American stands for.
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