Kelsey's+Reflection

Kelsey Joyce

From this project I learned that democracy is something that has to be taken from an individual standpoint. Everyone has their own opinion about democracy and what it is, and this project showed me that by seeing citizen’s reactions to urban sprawl and not thinking that it is a problem. They did not consider it to be an issue in today’s society, so it showed me that their democratic view differed from my own. I learned that I cannot hide myself from issues that I didn’t know existed. I had previously heard about urban sprawl but I didn’t realize that it was something that I take part in and something that I could change. I live in a condensed neighborhood, but it is so far away from any main road that I consider it to be part of the urban sprawl movement. I also learned not to make assumptions that I am not a part of an issue until I know more about it. Cooperating with others has never been a problem for me and it did not come across in this project. Our group worked well together to try and make a difference on this issue. The hardest part about working with others was trying to find reliable sources of information from people. When asked about urban sprawl it was frustrating for most people to not know what it is, but I was eager to explain it to them which made cooperation easy.