Low, Setha: Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park- “Parks and symbolic Cultural Expression”

This park is located in the Bronx on the border of Westchester County and is part of the Pelham Bay Park. the park is highly populated with  Latino, seniors,Caribbeans, and naturalists. Every member of the park tends to stick with their own culture, there is little of culture interaction.  The park was created in 1880, by these years the area was full of deteriorating farmlands once property of descendants of Dutch, English settlers and Native Americans such Siwanoy-Lenapi that after all were abandoned, living a lovely and huge space to the development of a park that it wouldn’t need to much investment for the physical condition of the land.

Low, Setha: Jacob Riis Park “Conflicts in the use of a Historical Landscape”

Located in Queens NY near to Brooklyn,a beach with a boardwalk, playgrounds full of history lies Jacob Riis Park . Named after Jacob Riis who was very famous for his pictures documenting the lives of children in the tenements of the Lower East side in Manhattan. The park is the use of many immigrants who do not  speak English and this is a challenge for the park managers. They need to discover how to satisfy these new immigrants’ needs of recreation and cultural needs coping with the long term park users.This park does not have enough funds to keep the place proper. A REAP study was made
behavioral maps, transect walks, individual interviews and expert interviews, to understand how the integration of different cultural groups allowed to understand the landscape of the Jacob Riis Park. the reserarch was performed in specific areas such as Beach Bay 1, 5 and 6, the Mall, the Clock, the Wood Park and the back beach.

Low, Setha: “The Ellis Island Bridge Proposal”

The Ellis Island is a historical place. During the late 19th century and early 20th century the island was used as a federal immigration station for the port of New York. unfortunately the park was closing during the year of 1954, and kept abandoned until that former president Lyndon Johnson added Ellis Island to the Statue of Liberty Museum Monument.In the years to come the National Park Services wanted to build a bridge from Liberty State Park to Ellis Island.The bridge would be 400 yards of water between Ellis Island and Liberty State Park. In 1994, the Public Space Research Group interview the public to see what they thought about the bridge proposal, interviews were held in Spanish, Russian or English. A strong interest grew among those who where interviewed. a understanding of the problems and consequences of the issue had been formed for the people.
ive been to the island many times and i too believe it is a horrible ideal to build a bridge, mostly because it would be the cause of people losing their jobs

Low, Setha: “Prospect Park, Diversity at Risk”

 Prospect Park  was built between 1867 and 1873 it has an area of 526 acres, and it is located at North-Central Brooklyn.The park is culturaly diverse; however, it was found that the tendency of the White population make a bigger use of the National Parks. Within the park there are many places people can go for intertainments:Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Museum,  Bandshell, Park Zoo, Lefferts Homestead and the public Library.The social life at Prospect Park is also rich and diverse. They got African/West Indies drumming and dancing. Haitan roots music. Many people use the parks for picnic and cookouts. Ive never been to the park the way the book describes  park makes me want to visit the park

“Urban Parks, History and Social Context”

In this article a short history of parks is given to us, as well as different types of parks.  A few of the first parks were places used for grazing cattle and training militias. parks are designed and build according to there location there are different kinds of parks: landscape parks, recreation parks, beach parks and historical parks.Central Park in New York and Prospect Park in Brooklyn are considered landscape parks they where build to help people interact with nature these parks emulated the parks of the classic royal parks around Europe. Ive been to central park and i realized that they have and Egyptian  monument in the park. Ive ever been to Prospect Park; however after reading about it i would love to visit. 

“The Cultural Life of Urban Spaces”

William H. whyte is on a mission to discover why some of New York City public spaces were successful and other a failure. Willaim feels that with the disuse of public space social interactions and cultural diversity are being performed less. He believes that the main reason for the disuse of public space has to do with the fear of terrorism. He states that after 9/11 people stopped being active in public spaces and have formed some sort of fear toward terrorism. In p3 the last paragraph was very unclear to me. after i read it i felt as if Williams was blaming immigrants for the disuse of public space.In this paragraph he write that after immigrants took over some public spaces, less public money for operations and maintenance where given. 

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“From Cuenca, Ecuador, to New York, U.S.A.: Families and Transnational Lives” 

 This chapter concentrates mainly on the transformation of immigrants and how it affects their families.

miles uses Vicente as an example, Vicente is an Ecuadorian from Cuenca whose family is in need of money so he takes a decision to migrate to the United States. He migrates and starts a new life and keeps in contact with his family until he Americanized and little by little starts to forget about his family. this biggest concern was paying his debit and getting laid. this family fears that he would forget about his own culture.

 i am from cuenca too and i have americanized and also i have forgot about my culture i feel horrible for doing so, but at the same time i dont because iam part of a new culture.

“Global Transactions Sudanese Refugees Sending Money Home” by Dianna J. Shandy

Shandy focuses on the Nuer refugees from Sudan that are now living in the US. she tells us that many Refugees send money back home no matter what the issues are in their home land they find ways to send money. Many of their family members back home are moving from rural areas into urban areas in order to receive the money easier. Western union is a business that has profit largely, with it locations around the world of course it would

Back in my country western union is very famous for their well stabled service; however, other companies are emerging, yet i still will use western union. it would be nice it they had a western union on the countryside of Ecuador , if they did i wont have to travel two hours.

“Beyond Urban and Rural Communities in the 21^st Century” by Zenner          

in this article zenner speaks about urban and rural communities in 21st century . Zenner  explains that the term rural is beginning converted into urbanism. The lives of people who lived in rural areas has changed because of technology.During the 21^st century the population changed from being predominately rural to being predominately urban. 

when i read chapter one by George M. Foster he sort of blamed anthropologist for the cost of rural communities migrating and changing. he stated that they exposed many of these people to technology and open a window for them to see outside their village. i agree with Foster