Summarize Suburbia

The social and cultural aspects of life in the suburbs seem to be my belief of why natural problems occur within the world. Indicated within the group of videos such as: “Sprawl City”, “Radiant City: Suburban Landscape” and “End of Suburbia: Trailer”, it is seen that the essential issue of separation of individuals causes larger problems. Some of the issues that I came across while viewing these videos were that the growth of population is contributing to the effects of global warming, and that humans have no concern when it comes to there environment. The reason why I came to such conclusion is simply based upon the facts illustrated within the films. Moreover, these videos have provided me with the information to come to the sense that distance creates future complications within a society.
The YouTube video “Sprawl City” is a useful piece of information to show how a social aspect of life creates more life problems. In the video, Leon Kolankiewicz an environmental planner discusses the impact of world population. Within the video, Kolankiewicz talks about a formula called the I=PAT equation. This equation was made to simply create the foundation that the population of people multiplied by affluence then multiplied by technology equals to a huge impact. This impact is then later resulted into economical growth falling below standards. Based on the indications of this film, I believe that this is showing how humans contribute to global warming. Considering the fact that the growth of human population is creating an impact on society along with the major assistance of technology, the increase in the habitat is assisting global warming. One example can be the fact that if the population continues to grow out environment will have to create more factories and produce more oil and gas; creating more air pollution.
Pursuing this further, the video “Radiant City: Suburban Landscape” is another clip that shows how one problem develops into further more conflicts. According to the film, accidents occur frequently within the inner city. The believed reason for these accidents is due to the commute of individuals going from home to work and other destinations such as school. The chain of issues within the video is that manufactures keep producing vehicles, which later produces toxic gases into the atmosphere; similar to the concept of greenhouse gases. In addition these manufactures create vehicles which later result in more accidents, because there are more cars on the road. Casting more cars is leading to the increase global warming damage, since there are more individuals who transport form one destination to another.
Lastly, “End of Suburbia: Trailer” is a video that completes the thought of social and cultural aspects creating struggles. In the film is states” normal is living in suburbs. Normal is consuming like there’s no tomorrow.” In my opinion this quote is stating that Ameericans choose to only live for the moment, not caring about the outcome of there actions. One example of this the way Americans focuses mostly on current issues such as if there car has enough oil or if there homes have the latest fashion. However, this shows that people don’t care about their environment, because they are strictly adjusting to useless materialistic possessions. As the film stated “America took all of its wealth and invested it, in a living arrangement that has no future.” You may ask yourself why America doesn’t have any future. The answer to that question is connected to the reason why humans aren’t concerned with their own natural surroundings.
The video clips “Sprawl City”, “Radiant City: Suburban Landscape” and “End of Suburbia: Trailer” are three films that are made to suit the topic of suburbia; however, these videos bring up other issues of how conditions in life create other dilemmas. These problems consist of issues pertaining global warming and the lack of there preparation. In final consideration, separations of groups of people based on various accounts create a domino effect of issues.




Viewing: “Sprawl City”
http://www.sprawlcity.org/
YouTube:
“Radiant City: Suburban Landscape”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCeWCVWZbdo&feature=fvw
“End of Suburbia: Trailer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM