Exploration:
I explored China Town. There were lots of markets, shops and pedestrians. The space was a straight line. It was many blocks from getting to one end to another. It is a narrow street for a lot of the way. It was like a narrow hallway just that the buildings were the walls. There are many people buying and selling objects and food. There is the street with cars parked on the side of the road and narrow sidewalks on the edges of the street.There were some cars that tried to speed past but with the amount of pedestrians everything was at a slow pace. There were an overwhelming number of people sometimes. I was walking with a friend and we go separated because the crowd got too big and we both went with the flow of it in opposite directions. I didn’t see many bikes because of how crowded and busy it was. There was also no green space and animals. I would see the occasional pigeon from time to time but when I did they would fly away because of the amount of people.
Articles:
The arguments Zimmer and Carlsson have in common are how transportations shapes the way the world looks and that relationships are fading away. Carlsson talks about being on a bike gives you the freedom from the time is money idea. It lets you to fully experience the world around you. His argument is that biking gives you a time to check out of the busy technology driven world and to experience it in a different light. He talks about how everyone is so busy all the time and that relationships are fading because of that. With biking we can slow down and relax, talk with friends and enjoy nature. Zimmer talks about how cars shape our world. The buildings and streets around us are made for cars. If everyone has their own individual car there is less space for greenery and pedestrians. He talks about when more people got cars more highways were built. These highways split neighborhoods in half and made it harder for communities to thrive. They both talk about how relationships and communities are negatively effected and how the space around them has changed.
What they don’t have in common is that Carlsson is for bike and Zimmer is for cars. They both feel a sense of freedom and speed when riding their preferred vehicle. Carlsson doesn’t like being stuck in traffic and being locked in “glass and metal boxes”. Zimmer feels the most freedom when he is in a car. Zimmer’s idea for Lyft was to not only help people not spend tons of money on their own personal car but to also help the world around. He talks about how the world is being shaped around cars and not around people when it should be shaped around people. Lyft can help get less parked cars off the streets and give more space of greenery and pedestrians.
Although they both have different preferred ways of transportation they both see the somethings and have similar general ideas for their arguments. They both see how the world changes. In Carlsson’s case on a bike he is able to slow down form the busy world and has time to smell the roses. Zimmer notices that places are made for cars and that if not everyone had a car there would be more space for pedestrians and nature.
