Hello Everyone!
Welcome to my first post for the second semester! In this posting I will be exploring and showing to you through photographs, a mapping of South Los Angeles and the interplay of a growing grass-roots movement in this part of the city titled: “Green Grounds.” The information gathered for this map derives from the TED talk named: “A Guerrilla Gardener,” by Ron Finley. (Although you will see a posting of the key to this map; I will go ahead and further explain the key on the learning portfolio as well- for legibility purposes). Let’s Begin!
Map 1).
The first map is a color-coded image of South Los Angeles’s unchanged state before “Green Gardens.”
Silver Grey: Residential Areas.
Forest Green: Vacant Lots, Yards, and Parkways.
Orange: Liquor Stores, Dialysis Centers, Fast-Food Restaurants, etc.
*white denotes the community as a whole, the rest of the community.
Map 2).
The second map is a color-coded image of South Los Angeles’s formation of “Green Gardens;” how, what and/or whom is needed in its development.
Magenta Pink: Volunteers, people from residential/commercial area.
Mint: Reuse of Shipping Containers, Farmers Markets, Planning, Building, Replacing Fast Food and Liquor Stores.
Dark Blue: Transforming Parkways, Yards, and Vacant lots into “Green Gardens,” Digging with a shovel, Placing Plants/ Seeds, Watering, Mulching, Repeat.
*white denotes the community as a whole, the rest of the community.
Map 3).
The third map is a color-coded image of South Los Angeles’s state after “Green Gardens,” is finished.
Light Green: Green Gardens.
Brown: Residential Areas.
Electric Blue: Shipping Container Restaurants, and Farmers Markets.
*white denotes the community as a whole, the rest of the community.
Map 4).
The fourth map is a color-coded image of South Los Angeles’s effects of “Green Gardens” implantation and five research methods used whilst in progress, and the positive outcomes of this system in the city.
Yellow: Correlation/ Regression Analysis; example- The effects of access to healthy food, and drop in crime level.
Red: Statistics; example- The city transforming their twenty-six square miles or twenty Central Parks worth of vacant lots into “Green Gardens.”
Purple: Observation; example- “Green Gardens” and Shipping Container/ Farmers Market Restaurants replacing the many liquor stores, dialysis centers, and fast-food chains- thereby having a positive effect on the community becoming more educated, and happy.
Light Pink: Analytical/Intellectual Reasoning; example- People realizing that they are saving money by planting gardens, and influencing their life mentally and physically by what they consume, signing a petition against the government to keep “Green Gardens.”
Lilac: Experience; example- People no longer having to drive forty-five minutes away to purchase organic foods, living in more convenience.
