Public Spaces

In this weeks reading, I found it pretty boring and kind of hard to follow. I did however, enjoy the story about the park in Atlanta, Georgia. I completely agreed with Murphy Davis, the writer of the story. I think it is a complete shame that they took such a lovely park filled with people walking and talking, kids playing and running around, and turned it into something to simply "look at". I agree mostly with Davis when he writes " If we mandate a public space inhospitable to any one group of people, we end up with a public space that is inhospitable to everyone." If you try to make something unattractive to one person then most likely it will be unattractive to all. I don't believe its really a "public space" if your trying to keep some of the public out.

Another article I also found interesting was the cell phone article. I'm not entirely sure what it had to do with public space, unless it was referring to people using them while in public spaces. I don't necessarily believe cell phones are a big problem in todays society, but I can see where the writer is coming from when he calls them an annoyance. There's nothing worse than when you go to dinner and try to have a nice meal and then a phone rings and the guy across from you is talking obnoxiously loud. I do think there is a time and place for talking on your cell phone and eating dinner or using the bathroom is definitely not the time or place!