Location: Tampa, FL (ybor area) & New Port Richey, FL (downtown)
Experience: Awesome!
In Tampa, FL key historic landmarks in the historic downtown include: Ybor City, the Florida Holocaust Museum, Ringling Museum of Art, the Tampa Convention Center and Hyde Park. These have all been around for a while and attract many ages. I personally have spent numerous accounts in Ybor City where graffiti masks the brick walls and nighttime is filled with the younger crowd looking for the best late night pizza joints in Florida or club hopping on the weekends.
In the city, we are separated from nature along with our natural resources. We ignore the impact of our human actions on the environment when we are trapped behind the city’s walls. People try to get out of the city to escape the commotion of the every day work schedule moving into the suburbs. This however interferes with the natural wildlife outside the city. If we built the world upwards and put the human race in the urban areas there would ultimately be more untouched land.
Take rivers for example. Rivers used to flow free and clean. Now there is so much industrialization evoked by urban areas pollution runs into or even intentionally dumped into the rivers outside the city. Depending on the area water can run either more smoothly or not. This is good and bad depending on the area. If the water is outside the city and it runs smoothly there is most likely a lot of pollution and toxic waste basking in the water. If our children play in the waters (I used to at camp in North Carolina every summer) we are harming ourselves and becoming vulnerable to disease and illness. Humans also hurt our waterways with the creation of dams preventing sedimentation and causing parts of the deltas to wear down over time.
Cities have become more populated over time. When constructing a new building, engineers used to focus on simple concerns like design and safety but that is changing. Now focus lies on efficiency of energy on matters of how to use less lighting, heat, air, computer technology, etc. The goal is to not only hurt the environment less but to also save money for the business or corporation in the long run.
The reduction of employment is dramatically hurting both small mom and pop stores and corporations alike. Family income is rising as well as family size. Poverty is also on the rise in urban communities due to the incapability to provide for the young. Over the years it has been more of a requirement to attend school raising education and even though the rate of unemployment is up than previous years, it is actually paid employment that has risen. Internships are on the rise giving the chance to attain a job in the future when the economy becomes more stabilized.
Sustaining the environment in the city is the main problem that we need to solve in the search for Earth’s antibiotic. Turn out the lights in your house, put more plants in the rooms to help the air, stop washing the car and watering the lawn. The city is filled with smog and hardly anyone realizes all that they could do to help. It is really sad that every day activities are the definition to the affliction against sustaining a positive life in urban environments.
New Port Richey, FL by the river :-)
Downtown Ybor (Tampa, FL)
Also Downtown Ybor (Tampa, FL)
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