Walking blog # 12

My neighborhood is full of apartments and houses that act as duplexes or 4-plexes. I live in an apartment myself and it is the tallest of my neighborhood, 3 stories. Most of the other places are single stories or two stories. All of the buildings immediately around my neighborhood have a modern American family feel of the late 20^th Century because they most are built with two or more rooms, kitchens, and such and have wood and brick outsides to them. They are much different to other neighborhood because they are smaller in square footing and are not set in the best neighborhood. For example, the university’s dorms are huge, most are five stories. They are much cleaner and have parks or grass and plant, whereas our neighborhood does not have any grass lawns or parks nearby. Because we do not have a gated entrance, grassy lawns, and pillar entrance ways, one can say our neighborhood is part of the lower class.

            People want extravagant homes and décor to show how classy they are and rich. They want to live in a gated community so they can feel safe and comforted in their home. Consequently, architecture plays a huge role in our society because it shows value in regards to rich, poor, and middle classes as well as the historic essence of buildings. For instance, architecture can have certain textures or elements in it that highlight the quality of the building as well as the timeframe of when it was built. Furthermore, with architecture, our society can value areas where the textures and elements of building have importance to them, or they could simply not value based on those too.