Looking ahead to one of the resources for today my favorite city map was the San Fransisco map of emotions. I have never seen or heard of this before, or even considered it a method of mapping. When we visit a city it is a very personal and individual experience. I think we could live in a city all our lives and only see a very limited view of it. By reading someone else's map of emotions we get a chance to see a place through their eyes and go perhaps to some places we might never explore. I think this is an interesting idea to do in Edmonton as well and maybe compare maps with someone who goes to different places as me so we could learn more about our city and the unexplored areas.
A map of my Edmonton today would include, whyte ave, university campus, downtown jasper ave area, and west edmonton. The rest is pretty much blank............
To add to this, an idea I came up with in class today, since I am a coffee lover, is to map my favorite coffee shops in Edmonton and surrounding areas. This would give someone a good idea of where I spend a lot of time and see. I think this would be a great and useful map.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
My Edmonton
Growing up and in St.Albert, I felt a very great divide between the Edmonton and St.Albert city limits. I remember thinking of Edmonton as a very foreign and scary place. I didnt venture into the big city unsupervised and didnt get a sense of feeling like an Edmontonian until I was probably old enough to enjoy the nightlife! After highschool I attended Grant MacEwan City Center campus so my first sense of Edmonton was the college campus. I went out to the bars on jasper ave, and spent a lot of time downtown and at coffee shops around the campus.
After making new friends from the city I expanded my horizons to Whyte ave and spent a lot of time there at night. One of my favorite places is the Varscona theatre. For those of you who have been there it is imtimate and cheap and a great place to go on weekends for entertainment.
Because I work in West Ed I spend a lot of time there and the nightlife on Bourbon street is growing and is a place I often go on the weekends when Im not working. Of course I spend a lot of time on campus in the day as well.
One place I have realized I don't go is downtown in the afternoon. Downtown is a very different place at night and often find myself there, but in the day it is a business oriented place and those people who work in offices and have full time day jobs inhabit this space.
I hope to expand my horizon of the city and gain a better sense of it. I have a realative coming from Japan in a few months to stay and he is very excited. One of my near future goals is to find some exciting things to show him and hopefully when he goes back to Japan he can say good things about this city!
After making new friends from the city I expanded my horizons to Whyte ave and spent a lot of time there at night. One of my favorite places is the Varscona theatre. For those of you who have been there it is imtimate and cheap and a great place to go on weekends for entertainment.
Because I work in West Ed I spend a lot of time there and the nightlife on Bourbon street is growing and is a place I often go on the weekends when Im not working. Of course I spend a lot of time on campus in the day as well.
One place I have realized I don't go is downtown in the afternoon. Downtown is a very different place at night and often find myself there, but in the day it is a business oriented place and those people who work in offices and have full time day jobs inhabit this space.
I hope to expand my horizon of the city and gain a better sense of it. I have a realative coming from Japan in a few months to stay and he is very excited. One of my near future goals is to find some exciting things to show him and hopefully when he goes back to Japan he can say good things about this city!
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