In the Gilded Age, Kalamazoo took on its own interpretation of the City Beautiful in the 1830’s with the creation of Bronson Park. The City Beautiful Movement’s goal was to remodel city space to attract middle class American who now had more leisure time than during the Industrial Age. Bronson Park was named for Kalamazoo’s founder Titus Bronson who donated the land that Bronson Park now sits on. The land was beautified in the ideal of a New England commons. In the 1850’s the land portrayed an image of an actual park, in the modern sense, with fenced off land, flowers, and graveled walkways. The Kalamazoo Library’s postcard of Bronson Park shows off the volumes of flowers that once graced the grounds (see appendix). The people of Kalamazoo …show more content…
All over America monuments were springing up with historical meaning to the nation’s history. The people of Kalamazoo were in favor of these monuments because it symbolized the city’s importance in history. In Kalamazoo, Bronson Park is home to many statues and memorials. Kalamazoo chooses to memorialize many different forms of honor, from military heroes to scholars, each has recognition at Bronson Park. Starting in the early 1900’s, Kalamazoo was feeling the full effect of the memorial movement. More than four monuments were dedicated to Bronson between the years 1913 and 1914. One monument from 1913 commemorates the lives lost on the USS Maine during the Spanish-American war. While this event does not have significant ties to Kalamazoo, it has deep significance to America as a whole. The City of Kalamazoo felt a connection to this event because it was relatively recent, occurring less that 20 years prior. Another monument from the same year named The Volunteer Cavalry Marker honors the 11th Michigan Regiment of the Civil War comprised of 1,500 men who first organized in Kalamazoo. Later the Regiment dissolved and combined with another in 1865. This monument symbolizes the local influence on a national scale. It reminds the people of Kalamazoo what their own people sacrificed for their safety and …show more content…
She joined the fight for women’s education alongside her husband at what would become Kalamazoo College and enforced co-education. After her time as a professor she created educational clubs for women that still exists today. She fought with famous feminists like Susan B. Anthony to ensure the future of women in the United States. Even though she did not live to see women get the right to vote, she symbolizes a piece of the long struggle for women’s suffrage. Kalamazoo feels a sense of pride over their hometown woman who altered American history. Years later, in 1924, The Hiker, a statue by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson memorializing foot soldiers of the Spanish American War, was dedicated. This was created to remember Kalamazoo Veterans directly tied to this event. The influence of Kalamazoo residents on national history is a point of pride for the city. Many of these monuments remember war heroes, an important subject to Kalamazoo, but among these war monuments, is the dedication to Lucinda Hinsdale, a different type of American
Malouf is very skilled in creating a sense of place in 12 Edmondstone Street. This essay examines the different techniques he uses in describing 12 Edmondstone Street and Tuscany.
There are many examples of cities reforming itself over time, one significant example is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. More than a hundred years after the discovery of gold that drew thousands of migrants to Vancouver, the city has changed a lot, and so does one of its oldest community: Downtown Eastside. Began as a small town for workers that migrants frequently, after these workers moved away with all the money they have made, Downtown Eastside faced many hardships and changes. As a city, Vancouver gave much support to improve the area’s living quality and economics, known as a process called gentrification. But is this process really benefiting everyone living in Downtown Eastside? The answer is no. Gentrification towards DTES(Downtown Eastside) did not benefit the all the inhabitants of the area. Reasons are the new rent price of the area is much higher than before the gentrification, new businesses are not community-minded, and the old culture and lifestyle of the DTES is getting erased by the new residents.
He states that, “The universal and ineluctable consequence of this crusade to secure the city is the destruction of accessible public space” (226). Davis’ views the public space as a place that is accessible to everyone and can be enjoyed freely. In “Fortress L.A”, Davis links his perceptions about the public space with city planner of Central Park,Frederick Law Olmstead. He states Olmsted’s vision as “public landscapes and parks as social safety-valves, mixing classes and ethnicities in common (bourgeois) recreations and enjoyment(230). Olmsted vision is no more active because of the design deterrents
This mid to late-19th century account of an early Victorian (English) public park illustrates the change of function and transformation of the Victorian public park from its original role as an upper-middle class observatory of Nature to its redefinition as this class' s social observatory of the lower classes. Between the years of 1840 and 1860, the public park's role in the eyes of England' s upper crust changed drastically due to the economic and political structure of Victorian England during this time and J.M. Milton's quote reflects this reality.
In Rhoda Halperin’s Practicing Community: Class, Culture, and Power in an Urban Neighborhood, over six years of anthropological research was conducted in the East End community of Cincinnati, Ohio. This book presented how East Enders were wanting to preserve their community as it was subjected to sudden changes, such as urban and economic developments. Halperin included narratives and viewpoints from various East Enders in order to voice the community and their concerns, additionally allowing readers to envision how the community was progressing through the variations of development. In conclusion of reading Practicing Community, I was able to fully understand how topics learned in class correlated with the purpose of the book.
Many factors and geographical processes, the foreshore of Sydney Harbour has constantly faced changes in land use which has effected the environment, social communities and the economy in both positive and negative ways. Urban decay, urban renewal, urban consolidation and gentrification are the geographical process that are involved in the changing gland use around the Sydney Harbour foreshore. These geographical processes are what changes the land use from being used as industrial, residential and commercial which then impacts the economy, social communities/ public, the environment and the stakeholders.
On February 6, 2016, I had the privilege of being a chaperone for Byron Elementary School 5th grade class in Byron, Georgia on a trip to Washington D.C. However, when the students and I began to tour the different memorial sites at in Washington D.C. we came across a lot of sculptures, but the one sculpture that I felt was amazing was the Marine Corps Memorial. The Marine Corps statue was designed in honor of the men and women that served in the Marines during World War II, who gave their lives to protect the United States during the war since 1775 (Marines, 2016). The sculpture is known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, which we visited outside of the Arlington National Cemetery, which is located in the Arlington Ridge Park. The sculpture is adjacent to the Potomac River from Washington D.C.
It is fascinating to observe social interactions in a large place. More importantly, analyzing how people interact on grounds of social stratification, power, wealth, prestige, ascribed status, and achieved status. Last weekend, I visited Boston Common Park to purposely observe how people are interacting with one another. I was equipped with a notebook to jot down some important observations in light of the aforementioned elements of social interaction. My interest was drawn towards a wedding being officiated at this venue with people coming from diverse backgrounds being present at the venue. This event provided the perfect scene for identifying various ethnographic phenomena.
If you live in or near Detroit you know the recession, which began roughly around December of 2007 still seems to exist. Detroit with its auto manufacturing background was hit very hard during the economic downturn of our country. What you may not know however is how city planners intend to breathe new life into what many consider a dying city. To the people who see us as a dying city, you have no vision. Urban renewal will bring renewed glory by preserving buildings that have cultural heritage, providing small business opportunities and rebuilding neighborhood communities.
...es to freedom (newworldencyclopedia). She had Military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn (Harriet Tubman). Every March 10th, her day of death, Harriet Tubman is honored (newworldencyclopedia). There was also a ship named after her and it served in the United States Merchant Marines until 1972 (newworldencyclopedia). “She inspires generations of Americans struggling for Civil Rights with her bravery and bold action.” (Harriet Tubman).
Location, location, location -- it’s the old realtor 's mantra for what the most important feature is when looking at a potential house. If the house is in a bad neighborhood, it may not be suitable for the buyers. In searching for a house, many people will look at how safe the surrounding area is. If it’s not safe, they will tend stray away. Jane Jacobs understood the importance of this and knew how cities could maintain this safety, but warned of what would become of them if they did not diverge from the current city styles. More modern planners, such as Joel Kotkin argue that Jacobs’s lesson is no longer applicable to modern cities because they have different functions than those of the past. This argument is valid in the sense that city
...diers who died on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Gettysburg became a national park. Gettysburg not only became a national park but one of the most visited in our nation. It also commemorated where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous “Gettysburg Address.” Nearly thirty two years after the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Gettysburg national park came about. “Created February 11, 1895, the 5,733-acre park includes the site where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address”(Fredriksen) The Battle of Gettysburg will remain a tourist attraction for many years and even now still a battlefield as some still hear moans of soldiers and their ghostly silhouettes marching about. Even the old battlegrounds like Little Round top or Devil’s Den will stay true to their grim past and hold onto what happened so long ago which divided our great nation that was once a whole.
Jacobs, Jane. "12-13." The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961. N. pag. Print.
Well that’s simple. It was designed way back in the 1800, for the public. The land, over 750 acres, was given from the New York State Legislator, in 1853, to create the first major landscaped park, in central Manhattan. The state held a competition of what design the park was going to have. Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won the competition in 1858. The park held up well at first. People respected the land. During the early 1900’s, the park took a great downfall. Instead of it begin known for its beauty, it was known for the illegal activity that was going on. Eventually the state got together and realized they were failing on their duties. Robert Moses, the park commissioner from 1934-1960, got approved from federal funding’s, to restore most structures. Again, after he left office, the depression was also in place, the park went back down a dark path. The people lost care in the park. In 1974, park funders got management together to raise more money to restore the park once again. Latter down the road Doug Blonsley started working with a woman, named Betsey, in 1993- 2008. The park hasn’t seen any better days, than the days of today. All it took is a little care and the park is looking better than it ever have in the last 150
It has taken 20 to 30 years, based on images taken in space of the Earth during the late 1960s, for people to realize that the environment ‘is like a bathtub of limited capacity’. Cities have been developing based on human culture whilst trying to be sustainable at the same time. Although it may be sustainable, the production process and the energy producing systems where they burn fossil fuels, contributes to the amount of carbon emissions that we produce each day. Green city is an expression for eco-city which is a city built off the principles of living within the means of the environment. It has been perceived as a concept rather than it circumstantially solving an ecological collapse like the ‘green Disneyland’ in Masdar City described