Tin Drum

Tin Drum is an amazing Asian restaurant with Thai and Indian food located in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech students are fond of the food served in Tin Drum since Georgia Tech students have a good proportions of Asian and India students. The food of Tin Drum is very delicious. The chefs make sure that their customers have a good meal, and the customers come again. The chefs are so good that even the pessimistic customers find it difficult to find a mistake. I also visited to Tin Drum when I heard about the food. I loved the delicious food as I had already ate 5 dishes of rice.
-PrIyAnK sHaH

Atlantic Station

I and some of my new friends went to watch 2012 in one of the theaters in Atlantic Station. Before the movie, we were roaming around in the Atlantic Station. There were many rich people roaming in Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, and Macerate. It had eateries and retailers like Target, H&M, Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Dillard's, and K-La. It was like moving around New York. It looked like New York as they were preparing for the Christmas. The lightning made it more wonderful.
-PrIyAnK sHaH

Decatur

I went to have a lunch in Decatur as it was my friend's birthday. We went to Chopatti which was an amazing Indian restaurant. It was filled with diverse people and different variety of Indian food. The food was very delicious. The time that was spent turned out to be very helpful because I learnt about the various restaurants in Decatur. I also learnt that we need to go to different places if we want to know about the various types of food.

-PrIyAnK sHaH

Effects of sprawl

Is it the beginning of the effect of sprawl?
In the past centuries, living in a sprawl was a dream for the American people. People loved to stay in the sprawl. As a result, a massive mass of people lived in the sprawl because it had freedom, affordability, family life, and upward mobility. Suburban way of life was embedded in the American consciousness. But in the 21 centaury, suburban project has become less sustainable. It says that suburban dream does not have a future due to oil depletion.

-PrIyAnK sHaH

Feature: Urban Sprawl - a new epidemic in Accra

Clearly, sprawl is not a phenomenon restricted to the US. Indeed, it has even breached continents. This article tells of sprawl in Accra, which is the capital of Ghana. The sprawl is growing faster than can sustaining infrastructure, and taking a quote from the article: "Urban Sprawl is the new epidemic destroying our city."

The article details all the hallmark effects of sprawl, such as pollution and heavy traffic congestion. In Africa, more occurs, such as the endangering of wildlife, and loss of arable land. In addition to the latter, it also causes movement of farming into the outskirts of the city, leading into a increased reliance on automobiles, producing further pollution. The residential area that springs up are also out of the affordability range of many, thus they move into the outskirts. The general pattern is that they congregate into specific areas, creating slums that attract more poverty.

We hear about sprawl so much but not so about solutions. This article does explain to approaches. One of them is called the "Compact City Model" which capitalizes on existing land, pedestrian convenience, and affordable housing for all. The other, called "Green Belt Strategy" which aims to contain a city in a ring of land that is reserved by official authority. I think both of these are fine ideas and there are reported success in other areas.

In conclusion, in order to obtain a better quality of life we should go back into simpler times, where planning is done for the public interest. To take another quote from the article, "Anti-sprawl is not anti-growth."

Peihsun (Ben) Yeh

Video: An Urban Sprawl By The Sea

The video above analyzes the results of urbanization because of a university that has just been given degree-awarding powers in the town Falmouth on the south coast of the English county of Cornwall. The university, University College Falmouth (primarily a traditional and performing arts school), has recently brought an influx of students from not only England but all around the world to this relatively small town. Above all, the narrator dissects the culture changes this arrival has installed in Falmouth through a series of interviews with students, business owners, and local residents. Specifically, he characterizes the recent display of skateboarding culture and graffiti.

-Oliver

Do Something

The video is reasonably similar to the effects taking place in the Suburban sprawl. Firstly, it tells us about the ever-increasing crises of the oil. Since many places are distant from the houses, we cannot move to that place without the car. Due to this, there are more toxic gases emitted in the atmospheres. Under such circumstances of the deadly pollution, Nature is revealing its fury. There are some consequences which will ultimately lead to the extinction of the Human as well as animal cycles or may be the entire world. It adds on by saying that “it is continuing with Floods, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Sicknesses”. For example, the recent disastrous floods in Atlanta had led to deaths of people and animals. So, the Video (it’s the people saying) states that we all need to do something rather than just “closing our eyes”. We should eradicate pollution. From my point of view, this can be done by eradicating Cul-de-sacs as it shown in “Rajeev’s blog” (group c3).
-PrIyAnK ShAh