Criteria for a Healthy Landscape Blog 4

One of my all time favorite places to visit is the Snoopy Ice Arena. Even though, I may not be the best ice skater but I always manage to have fun. What makes Snoopy Ice Arena so special according to Paul Groth "Criteria for a Healthy Landscape" is it connects its participants to there important social groups. Either kids on there school field trips or friends at a birthday party, Snoopy's brings family and friends close. Everybody enjoys themselves and one another as laughter and smiles fill the ice rink. The Ice Arena also connects it participants to outsiders by letting groups run fundraisers and rise money at the Ice Arena. By making it welcome for anyone in the community to come and help out one in other. "A healthy landscape connects people (even outsiders) to its participants or thrival." Every one in the building is doing there jobs, which the participants coming enjoy there night. Employees in the cafe, serving, cooking, and cleaning makes eating a breeze. Employees at the front desk greeting and finding the correct skates for you, and the employees who are actually on the ice making sure that everyone is safe. Snoopy Ice Arena makes the experience worth the money. Paul Groth criteria number two " A healthy landscape connects its participants to their important social group", qualify s to Steuever's essay "K'mart has a Loveable Disorder" because Kmart has many merchandises and low prices which attract any type of people to its store. It provides a little piece for anybody's needs from children to the elderly. Explains why people would still shop at Kmart. Showing there imperfect ways lets us know they cant be duplicated.

24 hrs at the Golden Apple Blog 2

At the Golden Apple, many types of people not only come to eat but they come and contribute a little bit about themselves to the diner. Listening to this broadcast I've learned how people shape public places. People have needs which motivates them to choose the appropriate places to go. For example, the Golden Apple is open 24 hours and many of the customers who come in to the diner have occupations, where they're up all night long. Like cops, truck drivers, etc they would need a place to eat that is open 24 hours and the Golden Apple attracts them. Cultural background and different generations are other examples of how people shape a public place. It plays a part in attracting similar or different people into one place. It contributes how people can learn, relate, share, and take ideas from different people. Public places take part in many interactions between two different individuals outside their close circle. At the Golden Apple the waiters contribute to the feel of the place. They listen to the stories, support there customers by playing there music, and occupy there customers who are alone. In fact, people shape public places but also brings a community together.

Comparing Chili's a restaurant in my community to the Golden Apple there is a difference in what is offered. Chili's tables are designed to only let the people at the table to communicate among each other. The only area where conversations can be held with others outside your intimate circle and the employees is the bar. Between the customer and the waiter there's minimal conversation. You would talk to the waiters if you wanted something not to talk about some issue's. Chili's does gather people from the community into there restaurants, but less communion with others around shapes Chili's as a gathering for only people in closed groups.

K'mart has a Loveable Disorder Blog 3

Everything that was mention about Kmart in this article is exactly how i felt and how I remember the store. Kmart is filled with a lot of random merchandise and has been around for years. Kmart will never change, from the smell of food in the air from the concession stand to the long lines at the check out register. You simply get use to it. The corporation investment in institution which later on goes broke is the reason why they are bankrupt, but it still finds the way of pulling customers in. I haven't came across a closed down Kmart, just a pretty empty parking lot. The present Kmart is fashioned by past societies which affected more permanent changes. Which relates to the failure of corporation investments and affect how the store carry's themselves. As seen in the employees enthusiasm towards the cleanliness in the store. It quality's as a cultural landscape. It has been around for very long from generation to generation. We seen the store at its best and at its worst. As you look in the store, there's a feeling of trying to hang in there from the destruction of local competition. Its a story Kmart presents, a similarity story other business try to over come. At Kmart its "random nature" is what separates themselves from other business, and what keeps its door open.

A ordinary cultural landscape that I have visited is Food Maxx. I have never been to a place that has changed its name so many times. I have been shopping there since I was a child. It has transformed in many ways, and I must say every year the quality of food and serves gets better. Food Maxx attracts a lot of customers for its low prices so you can imagine the extremely long lines, but nothing compares to how many children are in the store. Running over a child will be one of your fears at Food Maxx. The Diversity of the people is what shapes the store and qualify s it as a cultural landscape. Asian to Mexican cuisine fill the aisle's like a one stop shop. Everyone and anyone are welcome to enjoy. The diversity of a store brings individuals together in the community.