Part of what makes a public space successful is it’s accessibility to all. When thinking about accessibility, we focused more along the lines of social and economic classes, however this pair focused on the disabled individual and their ability to enjoy public spaces despite the fact that space has little to no accommodations for them. In San Fernando there is little to no considerations for the disabled in its urban design and they have limited opportunities in enjoying theses spaces, thus we unknowingly segregate them and in the case of San Fernando, maybe that's why we nearly never see disabled individuals. There need to be a revision of urban space design to especially improve the potential of public space to gather all people with every ability. Through a revision it would be an act of encouraging social justice. Allowing the disabled to have easy access to all public should be seen as social justice, and this would be a great aspect to someday explore.
The blog by Kerchelle Hinkson and Jameelia Rojas “Urban Infrastructure in Port of Spain” links directly to the status of housing in San Fernando weighing the economic imbalance as a determining factor to choice of location to reside. Noting that the Wealth stayed further away because they had the resource to get to their jobs on time and don’t have the constraints like the lower working class.
Within the city of San Fernando there are apartments and condominiums present that is usually taken by the lower working class because of the limited resource available to them in terms of income and the wealthy tend to steer away from the core to the outskirts in residential areas like Gulf View in San Fernando and St. Clair in Port of Spain. The same concept applies to Port of Spain according to the blog which link to Burgess’ Model similar to the southern city of San Fernando.
“The Existence of the Past within Modern Day Life”
This blog is one that wraps the concept of the past existence in society today. The past in cities is reflected by the structures and parts of momentums that are present and show cased in the modern city. Their blog went on to explain city planning and how history is linked to it, for example: the road ways and how it paths is structured, the reason given for it is that back in past there were railways for trains and the railways were constructed along these paths. The City infrastructures are based on the different cultures and lifestyle of our past rulers and labourers.
In both cities of Trinidad there are Essence of the past seen amongst the new structures, an example given it our blog is the Cathedral Church in San Fernando or the presence of part of the last train that travelled through the city.
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