Week 7

This is me posting on Brittany's post!! Check it out! It ROCKS!! 

Hello Brittany!

            You have been luckily chosen by me to comment on your post! J To start off I agree using simplymaps.com at first is difficult to use and to get the setup of your choice. My first question however, is why you did choose an income of $200,000? Is there any motive to why you decided on this income? I would love to know, it just seems an awkward income choice to me.

            While visiting Holmby Park I see that you really enjoyed the park and it was beautiful and stated some of the things you did. However, from your post and the pictures it seemed as you chose a “dead period” of the park. I think perhaps visiting the park during the weekend or afternoon when kids are out of school could have given you more to work with especially with demographics and perhaps list other ethnicities perhaps as babysitters (as you stated) or even residents of the community. Perhaps you should have included a map from simplymaps of the ethnicity just to better help support your statements of primarily Caucasian residents of the area.

            Also since you chose a park in Beverly Hills of course the houses and cars are over-the-top because of their income but I feel like you could elaborate a bit more of this from week 4 of lecture and demonstrate how the differences of income classes. This would have been a great topic to touch upon because it demonstrates social access into the community and perhaps the “requirement” to be a resident of the area and what not.

            Finally I agree that your post plays a key role in what Professor Wilford stated during class that week; that the upper class does own everything while the lower class owns nothing, however, did you think that perhaps it’s because the residents of the community is more involved? The reason why I bring this question up is because I come from a lower income area (Pomona) and I noticed that the parks and whatever they own here is lacking largely because of parent support and involvement. With the upper-income communities I have noticed that many more residents and parents are more involved so would what they own be more upon income or perhaps interest? Many Pomona residents are capable to partake in community involvement projects, however, most choose not to get involved for various reasons, and while on the other hand, Beverly Hill residents perhaps do.

            The questions I threw are just topics I would like to be answered if you could, as well as topics I would have touched on if I did the same concept for a blog. All in all, I think you did a great job! You get two thumbs up!