In the following, 3 of my peer's blogs will be analyzed and critiqued in relation to this blog. A relationship will be made between the blogs. It is important to remember that the city is a system and it includes a series of different characteristics that work together to make the system a functional one. the blog is important to show the relationship with other blogs with the attempt to shows certain characteristics operating with the one system of the city.
The blog "Urban Geography: Prestige and Position in Port-of- Spain" which was written by Jeaninne Wilson and Letesha Charles relates to this blog. Their blog not only highlights aspects of prestige within the city of Port- of- Spain but it also analyzes and gives reason for the reasons for the prestige within the city. The blog attempts to address the cities inequality and divide into the rich and poor. Their blog aids in giving reasoning for the divide and the patterns that are present along with the prestige. This blog relates to this current blog as it demonstrates the dual city. The dual city was also presented earlier as it relates to the building infrastructure. The author gave a grave report and analysis on the divide in prestige along with other comparative factors. Our blog more looks at the divide based on the the geographical location and it may have been a key component to mention the spatial divide along with every other factor. The infrastructure discussed, relates to the prestige in the city as prestige or the lack thereof can be viewed through the urban building infrastructure. The above mentioned blog can be acquired from: http://prestigeandpositioninpos.blogspot.com/.
Another interesting blog entitled "Integrating disabilities through infrastructure" which was composed by Jonathan Edward Ramnarine and Paulette D'andra Nanda has a distinct relation to urban building infrastructure. It is important and to to every city that disability infrastructure should be included. In most of the pictures included in this blog, their is a lack of external disability features to the buildings. It is important to note that the above mentioned blog highlights the importance of the disability infrastructure and why they should be included into to the general urban infrastructure. Our blog highlights in its understatements that people use areas that are comfortable as comfort is required and key to the functional city. The blog written by our peers highlights the discomforts that disabled people might encounter as they enter into Port- of- Spain. Without this critical infrastructural feature, which is the inclusion of different disability features, the city may be deemed dysfunctional to some. It is important that Port- of- Spain developers realize that the functionality of the city is dependent of the functioality to all its users. The peer blog relates to this blog in a very positive and eye opening way. The blog by Jonathan Edward Ramnarine and Paulette D'andra Nanda can be obtained through: http://integratingdisabilities.blogspot.com/.
Finally, another key blog that stood out and had significant relation to this one was "Urban Pollution" done by Shameela Ali and Jonathon Balkaran. This blog directly relates to the urban building infrastructure. Physical waste pollution, demonstrated by the blog about urban pollution shows and discusses pollution in relation to the infrastructure. in addition to the physical waste, the chemical waste also affects the building infrastructure. The pollution functions indirectly with the infrastructure. With pollution present, the building infrastructure may be unsafe to use. Pollution may prohibit the usage of certain building infrastructure and during that time the infrastructure will be deemed useless. Without the functioning or the proper functioning of the infrastructure, the city system will be disrupted. By all means possible, pollution should be reduced so that the infrastructure are always hua,mn friendly. They should be kept sanitized so that they function accurately and keep the city system balanced.
In addition to what was just said, the pollution has a link to the city's unevenness. More pollution is present on the east of Port- of- Spain in comparison to the west. This relates to the infrastructure. A link can be made to the wealth of the dual populations. in the east, more pollution will be created as the people are poorer than the people in the west. Also, the west will be kept clean all the time as they have paid personal readily cleaning the area so that the "power, money' class" image is maintained. "Urban Pollution" can be assessed through the next mentioned link: http://urbanpollutionpos.blogspot.com/.
The relationship to three other blogs entitled "Urban Geography: Prestige and Position in Port-of- Spain", "Integrating disabilities through infrastructure" and "Urban Pollution" have all been analyzed in relation to the urban building infrastructure in Port- of- Spain. The relation has been discussed above.
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