Transition Towns

project will then be presented in a hardcover photography book and exhibition. For each of the communities I’ve selected the process will remain the same. I will spend a week in the life, “shadowing” selected families in each town and spending an additional two weeks living in the town as if I was a native experiencing and involving myself. All while documenting through my photography, the characteristics that make each unique. I have made arrangements with selected families to live with them for a solid

cooperate to guarantee that the individuals from the town had enough to eat. They once in a while sufficiently developed to offer on to bring home the bacon, yet when they did they would purchase or trade their products for things they were not able create. At the point when the families were not cultivating for an additional wage they would deliver merchandise in their homes. The families would cooperate to make apparel, materials

even what we did at all. So if you came from a small town or big town what is the big deal then. I like this poem because it makes me want to go out of my small town to do something more then just be a simple country girl. I shouldn't be looked down upon because of where come from at all. Little towns teach you how to be a better person to keep your morals just be a nice person in general and that is something I will always thank my small simple town

sitting in a cold jail cell but I didn't do it! I'll tell you what actually happened that night. I admit I did blow down the house but I could not stop myself I was furious. The pig who lived in that house had taken the last few pieces of lettuce in town and being a wolf you get hungry all the time. For my evening snack I decided to go to the local store to grab some lettuce because I'm a vegetarian. When the store clerk told me the little pig had taken all of the lettuce I couldn't contain myself

with the land and community they provide for. Production-based farming destroys the unity of small communities. Production-based farming drives people out of the smaller communities because the production damages the economy of the town. Berry reflects, "The little towns that once had been social

castle town, Justin found the town was full of a sad mood. Some people are tearing their hair out. Justin questions a person what happened to them. But after the person stare Justin in the face, he yells at Justin, and leaves away. Justin hears people slander about king. Justin thinks the bad mood is caused by the king. They take a rest and put their baggage at an inn. In the middle of the way, James says he has a stomach ache. Then, he will rest and wait at an inn. Although the mood of the town and

Late into the month of October our class discussed the different forms of “sprawl”. The class learned discussed how urban sprawl is often seen as a bad thing because as business move right outside the city limit and begin to build. With these new developments comes possible job opportunities which in return attacks a variety of people. These people are now piling into a new city competing for new jobs , while all having lifestyles that benefit through different things all within the same city. With

There are overarching similarities between the two municipalities however, each locality emphasizes efforts in different areas. Both strategic plans are organized by goals and aspirations to ensure the prosperity of both localities. James City County has established a greater focus on economic growth as well as the modernization of government services like workforce development and educational systems (James City County, 2015). New Orleans has a stronger goal of addressing climate change and potential

throughout China. “An expansive new infrastructure grid-- which includes a 13,000 kilometer high-speed rail network, over 60,000 kilometers of new highways, and nearly a hundred new airports-- was spread over the country.” (Shepard) Unlike Kibera, China has rapid urban development. They are taking farmland, and turning it into cities. While more than 50% of the world’s population will be living in Chinese cities, the government has been working to make sure that the country’s cities are going to

The problem arises if urbanization is needed for people to have in their life. As people begin to evolve and technology becomes more advanced, the need for space is crucial, and urbanization for people becomes the best alternative for modern life to be stable. Focusing on the benefits only, people become blind from the impact other individuals who are in between urbanization struggle with. The people that are in between the construction of urbanization have no other choice but to accept it and move