#postthree

Age: 22

Ethnicity: African-American

Height: 6′2″

Weight: 240 pounds

Alright, so here's how I plan to do all these wonderful things with my body (like, ahem, lose all this extra body-ness I'm carrying around). 

So I plan to start my running program this upcoming Monday, which seems like it's getting here... waaaaaaayyy too fast. Ugh. 

This is my plan for the first week of this adventure:

Each day I'll begin by walking for 5 minutes, and ending with a cool down of walking for another 5 minutes. 

Day One (Monday, July 28) - Here goes nothing! Walk for 2 minutes, Run for 1 minute (repeat 7 times).

Day Two (Tuesday, July 29) - One down, let's go. Walk for 2 minutes, Run for 2 minutes (repeat 6 times).

Day Three (Wednesday, July 31) - By now, I'm probably freaking out because I'm super sore, but hey! Worth it! RIGHT? Walk for 2 minutes, Run for 3 minutes (repeat 5 times). 

Day Four (Thursday, August 1) - If people see you running, just remind yourself 'they're wishing they had the motivation you do right now.' Walk for 1 minute, Run for 3 minutes (repeat 7 times). Seven? Seriously?

Day Five (Friday, August 2) - I know it's Friday, but don't quit now! Walk for 1 minute, Run for 4 minutes (repeat 5 times). 

Day Six (Saturday, August 3) - Last day of this week, almost there! YES YES YES. Walk for 1 minute, Run for 5 minutes (repeat 5 times). 

The theory of landscape urbanism has, in essence, the idea that landscape can guide the process of city-making, with architecture complementing it and surrounding it. My take on this chapter was more on a programming side. The examples offered referenced projects in which the programming of the landscape seeks to bring back the estranged suburbs, pull them by the umbilical cord back to the Mother Metropolis. In this chapter, I understood that though the city as a structure has dispersed and scattered over the years, it is still possible, though landscape urbanism and its programs and functions, to agglomerate the constituents of a city and obtain more concentrated consumerism and production. In this context, landscape urbanism takes on even a bigger challenge—re-structuring the city, not physically, but in function.

As the single most important factor in a city are its citizens themselves, programming in landscape urbanism is incredibly critical.