Artifact #1: Full Dumpster, Garbage falling out onto the floor.
Location: Corner of Beaver Street and Ellery Street.
Time: October 4th, 2012 @ 6:03PM
Quality of Life Indicators: Health and Community Life
Positive Impact: This dumpster can possibly encourage people from the neighborhood to clean up more or take more care of where they throw their garbage.
Negative Impact: The smell can make people believe it is an unhealthy area to live in, and give the neighborhood a bad name. It also might also attract people with more garbage and might make them want to throw more garbage in there.
Solutions: The government can make the garbage men come around and empty it more often so it won't be so full and start falling onto the ground.
Artifact #2: Public Transportation, train & buses. Location: Corners of Broadway Avenue and Flushing Avenue.
Time: October 4th, 2012 @ 6:01PM
Quality of Life Indicators: Community Life.
Positive Impact: This is a positive thing because it shows that there are a lot of people coming and leaving this neighborhood.
Negative Impact: This can also be a negative thing because it can mean that this part of the neighborhood is is very crowded.
Solutions: The MTA people can create more train stations and buses by this area to expand everyone and where they are headed.
Artifact #3: Huge Empty Vacant Lots.Location: Corner of Beaver Street, Belvidere Street, and Bushwick Avenue.
Time: October 4th, 2012 @ 7:39PM
Quality of Life Indicators: Health and Political Stability.
Positive Impact: Anyone who sees it and wants to open a business there, can make it happen if they really want to.
Negative Impact: It's an empty vacant lot that is going nowhere when it has the potential to be something great!
Solutions: The government can make the vacant lot into something that can help the community connect or gather to further help the neighborhood.
I agree with you solutions to stop littering, but I also think that we should all work together to maintain our community clean, not just wait for sanitation to come and clean up. We should be more organized and not throw the garbage outside like that. I also like your picture. I recommend you to add more details to your solution.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the full dumpster can be a potential quality of life topic because it is local and solvable not just by the government but by the community and individuals. To better focus on this you can see how often this dumpster gets cleaned up or if the problem happens constantly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the comments all above me. This is because this dumpster didn't just get full of garbage and left their on its own many people most likely did this and as a community they should clean their own problems and work together to fix it all up. This can possibly be a potential quality of life issue because yes this does cause health problems and this is a problem the community can do on its own but what this community really does need to do is to have someone stand up and be a leader.
ReplyDeleteI agree on the negative impact that this empty vacant lots have, unfortunatly many vacant lots look like this in the community of Sunset Park which is my community as well. I think a potential solution can be to have more gated areas around these parking lots to prevent homeless people or people trying to dump there trash.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the negative impact on Artifact #2. Regardless of where you are, public transportation is ALWAYS crowded because people are ALWAYS in a hurry to get where they have to be. I'm pretty sure we can all relate that it is incredibly annoying. However, for possible solutions, I disagree. I do not believe that the MTA would create more stations and buses because that would require money. Our economy is bad enough and rumors have been going around that Metrocard prices are going to increase again. Therefore, the government is definitely not going to even bother if it requires money we simply do not have.
ReplyDeleteI think the dumpster is a good topic because it is local and can have realistic, possible solutions. It also affects many people in the community. I also think that you can focus on how often it is emptied and taken care of.
ReplyDeleteThe issue of garbadge filling onto the floor can be a great local problem. It has many health effects and can be solved. You can walk around and see where this issue occurs and possibly interview the people around it.
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