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  1. Oct 2016
    1. In this paper, we focused on the cognitive benefit that a holistically designed campus can provide as a resource for learning

      This sentence leads the reader back to the main idea of the essay by stating the importance of a campus designed for learning.

  2. Sep 2016
    1. Cynthia Wiggins,
    2. people with disabilities.72

      Washington, D.C. "Prides itself on being an accessible city."https://washington.org/DC-information/washington-dc-disability-information

    3. Consequently, it makes even more sense to apply the concept of regulation through architecture to the built environment than it does to apply it to the Internet or structuring decisions.

      Using upfront propaganda is so much more difficult to control than physical environments, especially in ever-changing cultures and societal norms. When a physical location is built, it is difficult, costly, and time consuming to change. But a built environment on the internet can be changed, altered, and updated at the click of a button.

    4. that behavior may be regu-lated or constrained, in part, by “architecture.

      While this states that behavior can be regulated and constrained by architecture, we can think about language in the same way. In regard to the conversation we had in class about the changing of meaning with Independent Clauses and their connectors, we can compare that to the architecture of cities. The architecture of the sentence can change the meaning. Changing the meaning can change the whole entire purpose. This is the same with cities.

    5. Wealthy communities have declined to be served by public transit so as to make it difficult for individuals from poorer areas to access their neighborhoods.

      Thinking about Washington, D.C. and the way public transportation works, is this true for the areas of Washington? Do poverty and violence stricken areas of the city have easy access to public transportation? Is this intentional? Do people of political power hope to keep public transportation away from their areas to avoid easy access to them? Did this contribute to drug dominated areas during the crack-era in S Street Rising?