I_Build_Stuff

Ok.. so heres the deal.. I don't really understand the topic of what a "social-design" issue is.. so my guess is that it is something that the public dislikes in the design of something because its socially incompatible. If this is the case, then i will become an advocate for the issue of the "Loop" in Sioux Falls, SD, the city that i'm from. For many years the Loop was a hangout place for teens to go on the weekend and drive around or just walk around. About 3 years ago this changed when the city banned people from being on the Loop for the weekends, because of the problems it was causing for downtown traffic. The Loop never had much crime or things like that, for the most part it was a safe place to be if you were with your friends. But because of all the oneway roads, 2 lane roads, and excessive traffic, the Loop just wasnt working anymore. The Loop however was partially made to be the way it was back in the day when all highschoolers would go down there and hangout on the weekend With the growth of the city, it just wasnt feasible anymore. There were debates for weeks about what could be done to change it, but nothing ever passed. If i was the city, i would've either expanded roads or built a couple new roads in order to provide more accessibility to traffic, so that the loop could stay. If the loop was still there, i believe it would bring in a lot more money to downtown because there would be kids there all the time.
So I dont know if thats really what the topic was supposed to be about, and if not, then you just found out a lot about the Loop in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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After searching for Lake Street for over 25 minutes, and then searching for the building that said "Midtown" across the top of it for another 15 minutes, i finally found what i was looking for. In the middle of what appeared to be a rougher neighborhood of Minneapolis, was a huge brick building. From the outside i thought it seemed out of place after passing by new things on my way there that i had never seen before in the town that i'm from. But once I got in to the inside, I was amazed. In front of me was a elegant lobby and a bunch of different places to go. I obviously chose the market and headed in to an environment that was new to me.
In the market, there were shops, bakeries, and delis from all different types of cultures. People of all races and ethnic backgrounds were walking around buying things from cultures other than their own. This created a whole new type of energy for me that i have never seen before. Everyone was helping eachother out to find what they were looking for, and it was just so lively. Other forms of energy were the mexican restaurant, the different delis from multiple cultures, and all the other food places that everyone was eating at. I was very excited to see all of this happening, and it made a new form of energy for me.
I want to go back to this lively place on my own sometime so that i can buy things from some of the places and try some of the food. Even the colors inside of the market were so energetic that those make me want to go back too. This was truly a awesome experience that i've never had before and i want to be able to do stuff like this more often (find new things in Minneapolis), so that i can see every aspect of the world.

Chuck Norris is the definition of energy.

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