Keith Clark visits from the Country Music Capital of the World, Nashville
I would consider myself a garden urbanite. I grew up in a very rural area and I don’t think I am ready to live downtown or in a true urban area. I found a nice garden urb neighborhood in Nashville Tennessee. I have always wanted to live in the Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia area of the country. Warren Street in Nashville is a newly constructed development containing several midsize two story houses. In this part of Nashville it feels like your living in the suburbs, but you are a 10 minute walk from downtown Nashville. This section of Warren Street is located less than a mile for the busiest part of the city.
Mike Swanson breaks off from pickin' and grinnin' to say "I love those houses--nobody would confuse them with houses from the turn of the last century but they're clearly modelled on houses from circa 1900, some of the most successful urban houses ever built. Once you get settled in, head over to Broadway and Second, and hear some great (and some not so great) bluegrass and country music. You might run into Dolly Parton, who knows? Or Maybe Grandpa Jones.
Lisa Grossman rebels against her classification as a post-industrial urbanite.
I would like to live in Greenwich Village at 14 Washington Square North. When I took the quiz it said I was an Industrial urbanite, but I do not find that to be true. I love the area of Greenwich Village and I like that the apartments are in a quiet looking area, but 8th street is just a quick walk away. On 8th street there is so much to do. There are bars, restaurants, coffee shops, places to shop, business places, and many more things. I also think this area seems like a safe place to live which is also really important to me. I have always wanted to live in New York City at some point in my life and I am trying to do that right after graduating, although I do not believe I will be able to live in this area right away!
Mike Swanson says, soothingly, "Don't worry, I won't tell Kyle Ezell". YOu might never be able to live in these particular townhouses...many of them are now owned by New York University, which is only a couple of blocks away. But you'll be able to find other very similar ones you could live in...when your ship comes in. In the meantime, maybe a decent loft apartment in one of those old buildings might be a good placeholder for you.
Jillian Karns Joins the Urban America Garden Urbs Club.
After doing the survey, I believe that I am a garden urbanite. If I was to live in a city, I would still want to have a patch of land to call my own, and have a very traditional style house and interior design. I would want a front porch with decorated nicely with flowers and pretty chairs, and a front yard that belonged to me alone. Since I grew up in Massachusetts, Boston is the closest large city I would like to live in. I found a nice looking piece of land that seems to have some nice space, and traditional style architecture.
Mike notes: Chestnut Street gets overlooked because of its two more famous neighbors, Pinckney Street to the North and Beacon Street to the South. It is a great street. Too bad the lighting wasn't prime when the Streetfinder van ran up and down it. You'll be able to join a couple of classmates which similar tastes for a snack or a libation down on Charles St. Good Ice Cream too, under the Unitarian/Universalist Church, of all places.
After taking the test survey, my result tells me that I am more of an Eclectic person. This tie into my desire for wanting to live in the city. I think the city provides all the needs for an eclectic person. The second highest level on my result is blank canvas. This enhances my desire to see new things and meet new people. I think I agree with the survey and the results are exactly the type of person I am.
The first time I came to the United States, I landed in Philadelphia, unlike most immigrants. I immediately fell in love with the city. During this time, the Philadelphia 76ers was in the playoffs against the Los Angeles Lakers. It seemed like the whole city had been hit by a sense of pride. Every corner had something about the team. This showed that there was a sense of unity among the citizens, so that enhance my love for the city. When I had to leave the city, I cried and I thought everything was falling apart.
I came to Providence and it was so much different. Philadelphia has numerous sports teams and universities, so there is always a sporting event to attend. Being a sport fan, Philadelphia always gives me that feeling of attachment. So for my city, I will pick to live in Philadelphia, because of it sports affiliations. The teams are so connected to the teams that every accomplishment by the team, the city plays a major role in it. These are my main reasons for picking Philadelphia.
For these reasons, I will be living in Downtown Philadelphia. 1111 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107. This will put me in the heart of the city and closer to all the various activities and sporting events. I will be the biggest fan of every sport teams in the city.
Not only will I be close the sporting events, but I will also be close to some of my favorite places as well. I am also ten minutes walk from the Lucky Strikes bowling alley. I love to bowl, so I can spend some of my free time at the bowling alley. My appetite for Japanese food will also be fulfill, because I can walk 3 blocks to the Raw Japanese Restaurant and Lounge. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is only less than 15 minutes from where I will be living, so I can make a short walk there. I love the idea of history and this will help me refresh my memories. One important place will be the Holiday Inn Express that is 4 blocks from where I will be a suitable place for relatives that I don’t want in my place to stay, when they come to visit me.
Mike Swanson says, "It's always useful to have a place to dump relatives. You've a pretty nice park east of you about four blocks, too. I've always thought Philadelphia was underrated as a city. It rather lives in the shadow of New York, only ninety miles or so away. Between games you can enjoy some other pretty wonderful things--a wonderful art museum and internationl class orchestra and cheese-steak subs."
Billy Wilcox reminds us that yes, there are cities in Vermont.
In class we discussed different types of Urbanites...the urbanite category that really appealed to me was ecclectic. I think that was how to spell it, anyway, one neighborhood that appeales to this kind of urbanite would be a little area in S. Burlington. A college neighborhood, in a perfect world I would live somewhere on the corner of S. Union and Buell or just right on church st. I think that these neighborhoods harbor lots of different people whether they are locals or students. No one judges what is normal and what is not normal because there simply is no normal. There are always demonstrations, street performers, and other types of activities going on. There are artists, writers, athletes, intellectuals, coffee lovers, and beer drinkers everywhere you turn in this area. I think that this neighborhood allows you to be anonymous and be whoever you want to be without turning any heads.
Mike takes his head out of the dictionary to say, "Close on eclectic, Billy and close on appeals, too, but I don't take off for spelling in this particular exercise. Actually I'm delighted you chose Burlington, because it demonstrates a place doesn't have to be a metropolis to be urban. Burlington's census count in 2000 was 38,889, which is about the size of Warren and Bristol and a little of Barrington combined, but it has all the attributes of an urban place that a city of a million has. I expect you could find every good thing and bad thing about which Jacobs write in Burlington. (Click on the view larger map and then look at the User Photographs. Interesting!)
