Monday, November 9, 2009

Design Study 2

Trenton is not a very large city. One can easily navigate through the entire place in no time at all. The directions I took were inconvenient, but showed some interesting sites. The route I took is a unique route designed to portray all aspects of Trenton, NJ: the slums, the downtown, and areas of recreation, dinning, etc.

There are not so good areas of Trenton, but there are more areas that are nice. One can dine at one of the many restaurants while viewing the calm architecture of downtown which is dominated by clean bricks. The areas buildings are also influenced by the vast number of Catholic and Baptist churches in the region. Although the NJ Transit Center serves as a transportation station that I occasionally use to get to NYC, DC, or even here to Temple University, the facility was recently remodeled into an extremely prominent building with brilliant modern architecture that makes the place really stand out. The trains were also redone. My favorite place to eat is Matteo's Pizzeria, which is farther away from most of the excitement of the city. Not too far from the center city area is the Waterfront Park. I frequently visit this sports stadium which is home to the Trenton Thunder baseball team. My high school also held jazz performances outside of the stadium. Not far from Waterfront Park is a very large club called Kat Man Du. Both of these buildings attract large crowds every night, and are nice places to be especially at night because they are both right up against the Delaware river. Most areas along the river, in Trenton, are calm, relaxing, spots to chill out, fish, or just have a small picnic or something of that sort. Taking the boat out is also a fun thing to do. Anywhere you are on either side of the river, there are lots of places to see, restaurants to eat at, and fun things to do.

Trenton has lots of neat things to offer. There isn't just crime-infested neighbor-hoods where nobody wants to be. You can do a lot in this remarkably stereotyped city. Just like in Philadelphia, there are all sorts of structures that capture the interest, appetite, and recreation, of many people all day and all night. The river and the famous "Trenton Makes, The World Takes" bridge are very characteristic of this city which is alive as any other city at night time as well as during the day.


Rules and instructions.

Communicating was all made up of conversing with my friends and locals who helped us navigate around. We knew mostly where we were going, but it was interesting how there was such a diverse variety in the directions we were given by different people.

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