To understand the urban spaces you must also understand it's transportation systems. The transport infrastructure within urban spaces serves as a backbone, without it the social interaction and economics within the ever vibrant city would not be the same. In this blog we attempted to highlight the development of transportation over the years and its relation to the development of the city. The effects of developing transportation was looked at as well as the benefits of some of transportation's negative effects. Transportation has branched out into many forms, air, land and sea and who knows what other forms may arise in the future. The value of transportation to the city and the way it connects people around the world was also highlighted. The blogs of some of our colleagues were viewed and some of these blogs related their urban topics to transportation. Some critics and relations made to our blog can be observed below.
Anthem of the Streetz Blog by: Stephen and Mikel
The Anthem of the Streetz focuses on the culture of streets within urban cities, mainly Port of Spain. I enjoyed that at the start of every blog a beautiful poem on the street culture was done but would have liked if each poem maybe would start differently rather than all starting the same. During the blog they looked at all aspects of street culture, music, pollution and even carnival. In our transportation blog we mentioned the value of human space in comparison to space for vehicles and what the cause of the uneven distribution of space between the two was. the Anthem of the Streetz had a particular post "Life in Urban and Sub-Urban Streetz" where they touched on traffic congestion and the limited space for pedestrians due to poor planning. They spoke about street vendors setting up on the sidewalks as one of the reasons sidewalk space is limited. I wish however that they had mentioned that the space on the sidewalk is originally limited and that the vendors add to the existing problem.
To visit this blog click the link below:
http://anthemofthestreets.blogspot.com/
Urban Paradox Blog by: Waseem and Samantha
This blog focused on a number of factors within urban areas such as housing, homelessness, pollution as well as other topics. It would have been nice if some theory or relation to other readings could have been made in the blog posts so that further reading and research could be done after the blog. The reflections of the pictures however were well done and the pictures were beautiful. The Urban Paradox blog did a post entitled Transportation" that looked at the fast ferry terminal which was a topic that was covered on the Urban Transportation blog. They discussed how this advancement in transportation technology allows for greater access across distances and the way in which this development aids businesses.
To visit this blog click the link below:
http://wsgeo.blogspot.com/
On the Move In Trinidad by: Michala and Hannah
On the Move in Trinidad looked at transportation in the Cities Port of Spain and San Fernando. They looked at Traffic congestion and the public transport system for both for both transport purposes as well as income. In their blog post "Traffic Jam" they spoke about the frustrations of going into the urban city of Port of Spain as well as touching on the environmental effects of traffic congestion which was mentioned in our "Benefits of Traffic congestion posts," where we stated that it was a negative effect of transport. "Different Face Different Places" blog post talked about transportation use and its value to the lower income citizen of Trinidad which was also mentioned in our post"Value of Transport." The pictures on this blog and relation to other readings were very well done.
To visit this blog click the link below:
http://trinitransport.blogspot.com/
"The key word of transportation in the 21st century is choice." - Anthony Foxx.
Anthem of the Streetz Blog by: Stephen and Mikel
The Anthem of the Streetz focuses on the culture of streets within urban cities, mainly Port of Spain. I enjoyed that at the start of every blog a beautiful poem on the street culture was done but would have liked if each poem maybe would start differently rather than all starting the same. During the blog they looked at all aspects of street culture, music, pollution and even carnival. In our transportation blog we mentioned the value of human space in comparison to space for vehicles and what the cause of the uneven distribution of space between the two was. the Anthem of the Streetz had a particular post "Life in Urban and Sub-Urban Streetz" where they touched on traffic congestion and the limited space for pedestrians due to poor planning. They spoke about street vendors setting up on the sidewalks as one of the reasons sidewalk space is limited. I wish however that they had mentioned that the space on the sidewalk is originally limited and that the vendors add to the existing problem.
To visit this blog click the link below:
http://anthemofthestreets.blogspot.com/
Urban Paradox Blog by: Waseem and Samantha
This blog focused on a number of factors within urban areas such as housing, homelessness, pollution as well as other topics. It would have been nice if some theory or relation to other readings could have been made in the blog posts so that further reading and research could be done after the blog. The reflections of the pictures however were well done and the pictures were beautiful. The Urban Paradox blog did a post entitled Transportation" that looked at the fast ferry terminal which was a topic that was covered on the Urban Transportation blog. They discussed how this advancement in transportation technology allows for greater access across distances and the way in which this development aids businesses.
To visit this blog click the link below:
http://wsgeo.blogspot.com/
On the Move In Trinidad by: Michala and Hannah
On the Move in Trinidad looked at transportation in the Cities Port of Spain and San Fernando. They looked at Traffic congestion and the public transport system for both for both transport purposes as well as income. In their blog post "Traffic Jam" they spoke about the frustrations of going into the urban city of Port of Spain as well as touching on the environmental effects of traffic congestion which was mentioned in our "Benefits of Traffic congestion posts," where we stated that it was a negative effect of transport. "Different Face Different Places" blog post talked about transportation use and its value to the lower income citizen of Trinidad which was also mentioned in our post"Value of Transport." The pictures on this blog and relation to other readings were very well done.
To visit this blog click the link below:
http://trinitransport.blogspot.com/
"The key word of transportation in the 21st century is choice." - Anthony Foxx.
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