No more are the brick rowhouses and the green parks. S Street and the Shaw neighborhood have transformed greatly since the redevelopment began. Walking around the area presents the pedestrian with glass building followed by glass building. While the exteriors are vastly different from the older buildings, it’s the interiors that are truly unique. When […]
Author: Josh Iseler
Gender: An Emerging Industry and Transitioning World
In herarticle, “His & Hers: Designing for a Post-Gender Society,” Suzanne Tick explains how the design industry and the private sector as a whole is leading the way in tolerance of other genders. Our current society often doesn’t accommodate or even recognize those individuals who don’t identify within the gender binary. This situation has […]
Return to Nature: How College Campuses Can Improve Student’s Well-Being
The idea that nature can affect one’s spirit is explored in “Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces,” by Kathleen G. Scholl and Gowri Betrabet Guwaldi. In their article, they argue that the inclusion of nature to the physical environment of college campuses can have a positive impact on the mental well being of the […]
Common Place Entry 5
Georgia Referendum to Amend State Constitution: “Shall Property owned by the University System of Georgia and utilized by providers of college and university student housing and other facilities continue to be exempt from taxation to keep costs affordable?” The root structure of this sentence could be summed up in the sentence: Shall property be […]
Urban Combat: A Bloody History and the Changing Future of S Street
The cozy brick townhouses encapsulate the street. Freshly planted trees and small patches of grass line the narrow sidewalks. The air smells clean, as clean as an urban environment can smell at least. People walking up and down with smiles on their faces as they continue on with their day. Little do many of these […]
Digital Archive
Digital Archive #1: This is the former residence of Garnell “Baldie” Campbell. It’s located next door to the New Community Church as described in S Street Rising by Ruben Castaneda. Aside from the security bars on the windows (which were most likely there when Baldie was around, either that or no one dared to mess […]
Commonplace Entry 4
The bathroom sign is a rhetorical device used to describe something that may be unusual to the common person. Most people are used to the traditional male/female bathroom divide, but this sign put up by the AU Housing and Dining breaks from that norm. The sign is trying to convince people to use the […]
Annotated Bibliography 1
“United States of America v. Garnell A. Campbell, Also Known As Baldie, Appellant, 72 F.3d 920 (D.C. Cir. 1995).” Justia Law. Justia, n.d. Web. 06 Oct. 2016. This citation provides background information on Baldie’s case. The source gives a brief description of the trial including the presiding judges and the evidence that was displayed on […]
Commonplace Book Entry 3
A favorite sentence of mine comes directly from the most famous line of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” In essence […]
Reading Analysis 2
Chapter Five of City of Rhetoric by David Fleming, explains the creation of the majority white suburban neighborhood. The history of suburbia is explained through the lens of a tool of cultural segregation. Suburban communities are most often white, with small numbers of minorities, and often times contain physical barriers to prevent the entrance of […]