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