Week 5-danny luo

These recent two weeks, the arrangement for the program was balanced. Every morning, we got to stay in the CTA and listen to story and experiences shared by  the guest speakers. And every afternoon, we took or the public transportation to visit different places such as the PUC and SPUR. I loved this experience, and I regarded it as the field trip. (I always love field trip) Since I had talked about  PUC in my reflection, I am going to talk more about SPUR in this blog. The SPUR stands for the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association which is a nonprofit organization that provides advices to the city hall in order to make Bay Area a better  place to live. The SPUR has a long history in working  with the government organizations and had  done a lot of remarkable works. At the office of the SPUR, we got to share our opinion of how to create a better community and also learn about what were some of the factors that affected the community. And we also analyzed and shared our thoughts of four different pictures, each represented the form of the future community. Each picture showed us the future community with different economic and social factors. For me, the most important experience at the office of SPUR was that we were thinking how could we apply this knowledge to develop the Chinatown, and what kind of community we wanted Chinatown to be in the future.