This site is an alley behind an abandoned commercial building in Garfield. \u00a0Garfield is a diverse neighborhood in Pittsburgh with a tremendous amount of strengths and challenges. \u00a0The site strikes an intriguing ambiguity between public and private space.<\/p>\n
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Physical attributes\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n -Large building on one side<\/p>\n -Garage doors every 20 feet or so<\/p>\n -More garage doors on other side<\/p>\n -Division between commercial and residential<\/p>\n -Over growth (shrubs)<\/p>\n -Over growth (vines)<\/p>\n -Brief\u00a0 moments of color amongst grey facade<\/p>\n -Many pot holes<\/p>\n -Boarded up windows<\/p>\n -Chain link fence<\/p>\n -Commercial lighting<\/p>\n -utility meters<\/p>\n -traffic bollards<\/p>\n -emergency egress infrastructure<\/p>\n -decaying organic materials (leaves)<\/p>\n -litter<\/p>\n -glass block windows<\/p>\n -drain pipes<\/p>\n -garbage bags<\/p>\n -large puddles<\/p>\n -abundant loose gravel<\/p>\n -graffiti<\/p>\n -lawn furniture<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Social Attributes<\/strong><\/p>\n -Refuge<\/p>\n -People Walking Together<\/p>\n -People Leaving Work<\/p>\n -People Parking<\/p>\n -Neighbors sitting<\/p>\n -Open space used by children to play<\/p>\n -Children meeting each other after school<\/p>\n -Place to draw<\/p>\n -Place to intersect life and work<\/p>\n -Provides a little known shortcut<\/p>\n -Private Space that still sees a lot of foot traffic -Many windows looking at the same scenery, but not each other<\/p>\n -Residences are fenced off and shielded<\/p>\n -Occupants are Primarily Young<\/p>\n -Occupants are primarily in pairs or groups<\/p>\n -All local foot traffic<\/p>\n -Little eye contact<\/p>\n -conversation levels drop compared to main street<\/p>\n -ambiguous as to whether it is private or public space<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This site is an alley behind an abandoned commercial building in Garfield. \u00a0Garfield is a diverse neighborhood in Pittsburgh with a tremendous amount of strengths and challenges. \u00a0The site strikes an intriguing ambiguity between public and private space. Physical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,97,96,33],"tags":[],"coauthors":[115],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-context-analysis","category-physical","category-social","category-student-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n-Sense of surprise when other people are encountered<\/p>\n