Adventures of Urban Life

The blogs below are related to urban life In United States and other countries:
http://www.urbanlifeblog.com/
In this blog itself has many topics, but what interested me the most was the Melrose community garden project which was a project that will turn a lot to a beautiful garden. For this success they will need the votes from students and others. This blog basically tells us about how they reshape their community and how to make it clean. All this can be related to us because in New york, most of the park are kept clean and also their is progress in making our environment better.

http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.com/category/civics-and-urban-life/
This blog tells us about the urban life in Brooklyn, New York. In the blog it mention many things for the environment. Such thing were Recycling, Reshaping The Community, and The weather itself. I like this blog because not only in talks about urban life but it also talks about things that happen in the surrounding area. Also it gives us places where we can take yoga classes. All these are related to us because the blogs itself, all of them are connected to a place.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/7790/Urban-Life-is-Bad-for-Brains
For this blog, I found it really interesting. It is because it talks how urban life will make our mind dull and bored. They have research that many patients in hospital get better when they can see trees from their window and also women who lives in public housing are able to focus better when their apartment has a scenery with grass in it. However, I find this false because of all these year living in the urban area, I will never get bored of it because there are so many interesting and exciting things to do and see.

http://www.streetsblog.org/
This blog talks about the street and highways of New York City. Basically this blog spreads out awareness that the street and highways are dangerous and that all of them needs to be fix in order to prevent any more accidents. One of them that caught my attention was Fixing the Ditch: Planning a Less Awful BQE Trench because it tells us how traffic jam at the BQE will cause damages to our lungs and health. Another interesting thing that attract my attention was the map they drew showing how much area it is causing damages too. Another Article was CB 6 votes conditionally for East side SBS, Endorse Better Bike Lane. The article didn't catch my attention but the map they drew which was very similar to the Map we drew for the Public/Private Activity,also in the map it show where the bike lane which will be indicated and in creating this, it will give the bikers a place to ride in the street without cars beeping them or giving them another trouble .

http://ny.curbed.com
This blogs tells us about different places where we can get our food or eat it. It will vary to different nationality food, things going on with the restaurants, and events that are happening in the surrounding stores. What interested me the most was that even though it a blog it feels like its a newspaper because it will tell you about robbery that happened in a certain restaurant and also street fights. Another thing the blog tells us about are buildings and the development of it. I saw many topics on areas that are under construction and how many of the buildings are getting taken down causing some to lose their work or some being homeless.
Charles Kan