Walking And The Suburbanized Psyche

While reading different essays addressing the topic of nature, I came to the conclusion that they all shared the idea that being outside can make an impact in everyone no matter if you believe you only belong in a city or forest because it can bring you serenity and show you all the amazing things you wouldn't be able to see anywhere else. In Wendell Berry’s essay “An Entrance to the Woods,” he states that people can use the quiet of the woods to forget all their problems. Berry wrote “One is that, though I am here in body, my mind and my nerves too are not yet altogether here. We seem to grant to our high-speed roads and our airlines the rather thoughtless assumption that people can change places as rapidly as their bodies can be transported.” Nature has a way to transport ones mind and spirit elsewhere while the body is left behind on earth as we travel deep into thought. Adding on to that idea, the essay “A City Person Encountering Nature” by Maxine Hong Kingston the author explains that nature is a giver of peace and patience with its slow cycles that may frustrate people, but help keep a sane mind. Society is fast paced, making everyone feel that they need to keep the same pace in order to get things done, but we don't realize that although our bodies are moving and pushing, our minds are exhausted and cannot keep up with the fast pace. Kingston wrote “Preferring the city myself, I can better discern natural phenomena when books point them out; I also need to verify

Introduction: "Homo Suburbiensis" is as much a poem about the human condition, as it is a record of one man 's escape from the demands of his existence. "Homo Suburbiensis" uses one man 's escape from his demands to represent our universal need to contemplate and resolve our own uncertainties in life in our own special place. Dawe uses a series of imagery to depict the workings of our minds and a chain of unpleasent sensory experiences to illustrate unwanted intrusions in our lives. Through the vague depictions of these intrusions Dawe urges us not to give great attention to them, but to offer to the world, our most truthful emotions and thoughts.

In “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche,” the author, Rebecca Solnit, argues that the development of suburbanization has been the primary problem as to why our modern society continues to devalue the significance and impact of walking. Suburbanization hasn’t only changed the way we travel from one place to another, but it has also changed the way we communicate amongst each other and with ourselves. Walking is looked down upon and has been seen as a symbol of low status. This has led people to exterminate the use of walking in their daily lives. However, even if someone would like to walk to their destination they can’t due to the fact that places are shaping their roads to accommodate to the excess use of cars. I agree with Solnit that walking has a positive impact towards our bodies, our world, and our imagination.

I utterly disagree with Solnit’s ideology, “Otherwise the individual 's imagination will be bulldozed over to the chain store outlets of consumers ' appetite, true crime, titillation, and celebrity crisis”. The one way I 'd relish taking a walk would be with pleasant company. If you 're hand in hand with your partner appreciating the scenery together that changes the ambiance of the walk. Yet what changes actual the mood of it is the person you 're with and not the actual walk because you can be doing anything else but instead you 're with pleasant company therefore it doesn 't matter what you 're doing. Likewise, when people voice they will only be pleased when they reach a certain point in their life; what if you never get to that point? Does that mean you 'll never be satisfied? Solnit classifies walking the same

In “Remaking Leisure in Middletown (1929)” Sociologists Robert Lynd (1892-1970) and Helen Lynd (1896-1982) were two individuals who “wanted to study the effects of modernization [on individuals living in the urban community]”

Throughout the text “Solitary Stroller and the City,” author Rebecca Solnit explores the complex relationships between the walking individual and living in the city. The title brings together three central ideas; walking, the city, and solitariness as an individual.. These three central ideas are tied together and used to reveal deeper meanings and relationships within the text. When analyzing Solnit’s work, the reader is left to identify a complex relationship between the central ideas and how the geography of a city influences all the three of the central ideas. Solnit makes claims throughout the text that are strongly suggestive of a relationship between the ability to walk and its derivability based on the “when” and “where” concepts. The geography and or location can be explored through the comparison of rural walking versus urban walking, the comparison between the cities of London and New York, and the solitariness associated with the geography and structure in one city versus another. Spanning the entire text is the idea that the city influences the walker and their individualism among the crowd, or their perception of solitude. Solnit compares London walkers and New York walkers, exploring how their different geographical locations define their city as a whole as well as the individual. Geography plays a crucial role in one 's idea of solitude and individualism.

According to the essay “ Nature Through the Looking Glass”, the author believes that people should be part of nature, but most of the time people do not have real touch activity of nature. Under the strong competition society, it is not easy for a normal worker to go outside and interact with the nature. Those green plants on two sides of the city sidewalk is one of the chances for people to get touch to nature. More importantly, walking in the city sidewalks is easier than having a travel, which can satisfy most of the city people’s working requirement . Also, nature world will bring quiet life for people I always ask myself, if I can live without business area, after reading the essay “ The Forged City”. And I get a response, which is people need to get out of business activities and come back to nature even a short time in each day. Without interest relationship, people’s life will become simple and pure. Shopping malls cannot replace traditional city centers because people have large limitations in business malls. In contrast, people can observe different levels people in the society with equality ideas in traditional city centers. City sidewalks can fit for this requirement and provide a comfortable area for all of us. When children go

On Saturday September 3rd, between 6:30 and 7 I went to the Arlington Parks Mall to observe the movement of others. In that short period of time I observed at least a hundred people, some I analyzed closer than others. Despite the fact that I am a creature that produces movement as well, and am someone who is not new to seeing others in action, there were some new revelations that were made apparent to me about movement outside of the expectations I already had. (3) First and foremost, people’s movements, like the finger prints that we are born with are unique to each individual; movement is a rainbow of flavors, no person moves exactly like the next. When I was observing in the mall the first and most common movement I noticed was walking.

Throughout the world of suburbia, there seems to be a persistence of communities who attempt to create a perfect, enclosed world for the whole of the community to live in. By providing for everything that the inhabitants would ever want, suburbia is able to close itself off from those around it that it deems unworthy of belonging. While this exclusivity helps to foster the sense of community, it can also bring with it isolation from the outside, and also from within, and have disastrous results. Throughout the semester, there have been a number of works that have dealt the issue of isolation, but the greatest representation of a work whose physical qualities in its representation of suburbia help to

Walking was published in 1862, during a time period of thoughts surrounding logic and reasoning. Thoreau was a transcendentalist, believing in a social movement promoting beliefs of the innate goodness of people and the divine spirit in everything. The beliefs of individualism and spirituality broadens Thoreau’s theme and connects to the existential question,“What it means to be human”. Thoreau notes “In short, all good things are wild and free” (17), determining humans should value nature and natural experiences that are present in our environment. Furthermore, the transcendentalist theme repeats, “No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the

In 2000 the suburban area has been changed in United States. Most of the cities has been developed and growth widely. After the television and the movies attracted so many different people, the gays, the lesbian and straight population has been increasing every year. Which is created the weight on the shoulders of the city. According to the book Urban Politics (2010) “ Television and Hollywood’s” Schizophrenic view of suburbia”. The suburbia continue to prosper because of rapid population size. The population as homogeneous string more privileged from the white class and upper class bedroom or dormitory communities.

The essay “Walking “is a reflection on walking and the wildness that is found in nature. Thoreau discusses walking as way to take time for oneself and concentrate on only nature. According to Thoreau, walking temporarily liberates individuals from the activities of daily life. Thoreau implies walking can reconnect people to nature. In fact, he would rather have a swamp as his front yard than a garden. Why would Thoreau prefer swamps over gardens? Maybe it is because swamps naturally occur and are left alone. However, gardens are manmade and the natural landscape of the gardens were altered by humans. If Thoreau had a swamp as his front yard, he would constantly be surrounded by nature. Therefore, he would feel more connected to nature after

A walk in the park is like a short journey to discovering your self. I casually stroll through the dense green, observing nature taking its course. I can hear the bird’s chirping their song, it’s as if they sing a beautiful musical piece. The flow of the gentle breeze brushing against my face also brings a joyous sense of relaxation. It is at this moment I feel calm and at peace with my self. The aroma of fresh air makes me happy that we have such an air to breath, where as others are not so lucky. I observe as I walk along the smooth black pavement, the giant, well defined hill that was made by man. The long, tall stairs that lead up to the top of the hill certainly seems endless. The lush green of the whole park was just an impressive sight to see. This is a beautiful show of nature.

Everything changed after money. Small changed in the metropolis change everything, like George Simmel supported. It’s like living in a jinga. The money is one of these small things that change the way of living life and their attitude in the public. Money is the all reason of change in people’s daily lives which also create new classes such as burgeoise. Metropolitan individuality is di erent which is more intellectual, rational. 18th century liberation changed all the balance and understanding of money, way of using money and the reason of its devaluation. While the metropolis people are more forced and isolated, it might be easy for them to balance but the small change can alter everything in the big circle.

As I miserably stumbled outside, I realized how hostile the city environment can truly be. Frankly, it was my fault that I was forced off the bus. If I waited a bit longer I would be able to vomit in one, of several, garbage receptacles – located all around the city block. I always felt sick while using public transportation. My father attributed this to problems with my “vestibular apparatus.” I, however, believed – and still believe – that the urban atmosphere makes me feel nauseated. There is a certain aura of ignorance that always comes to mind, whenever I consider the urban life. I hated the urban life with all its aspects, and I still dislike it today. In all honesty, I hate the public transportation, even though it is an unavoidable attribute to the city life. Furthermore, I dislike the chaotic atmosphere, the closeness of homes, and the density of city-dwellers. And utmost prominently, I look with abhorrence at social inequality that manifests itself within the walls of a city. As a matter of fact, the smell of perfume intermixed with a smell of sweat, spoiled seafood, and vehicles’ exhaust – is my initial thought of an urban life, which forces all my senses into submission and makes me feel helpless, tired,