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Public Realm

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While we could talk for hours and hours of what Kunstler discusses, we don’t have enough time for that in our presentation. However, some possible areas of discussion we would like to delve upon would include Kunstler’s definition of the public realm and the common good, Disneyland and pre-World-War-II, the suburban sprawl, and finally Kunstler’s idea of the perfect neighborhood and if we can truly achieve the common good once again.
Discussing Kunstler’s definition of the public realm and the common good is an essential one because this is his main argument. He believes that the public realm and the common good have been degraded and his entire paper rests in the cause of this degradation as well as if we will ever be able to achieve the …show more content…

On September 26th, this is when the plan is due and we should have read everyone’s abstract by this date. Following the abstracts, we will meet to discuss the text and its significance. Once we have discussed the texts, we will draw certain topics that we feel are vital for the class’s comprehension of the text. By September 28th, we each should have picked the topics of discussion we would like to expand on. As mentioned before, Jasmine will focus on “”, Noah will focus on “”, Aaron will discuss “” and Tiarra will focus on “”. Then for the next two weeks, we will work on the discussion paper that is due on October 12th. Everyone will write a few paragraphs (we were thinking about a page for each topic as we weren’t really sure as to how long the discussion should be). And then we would designate a day where everyone would meet and revise/edit the paper to ensure that there are no grammatical errors and that everything flows nicely. Since we will be presenting on November 4th, we will spend the rest of the time, which is roughly about three weeks working on the PowerPoint presentation. Throughout the three weeks, we will construct the presentation, focusing on abstract pictures that describe our topics that will allow for interesting discussion that engages the audience, we will also be working on how to construct flow for . Below is our

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