3/17 &3/19

3/17

Today we walked around Campustown! It was really interesting hearing how the changes to campustown came from joint collaboration from U of I, the business owners, and the city of Champaign.

It was really interesting to hear how surveying the students changed the landscape of Campustown. Originally, there were multiple lanes going in each direction and very narrow sidewalks, but now it's been transformed into more of a place by expanding the sidewalks and decreasing the number of lanes through that section of green street.

It was also kind of funny seeing houses built right in to so many of the buildings on green street! For some of them, it makes sense, but for other ones were they just built it into the building, it makes no sense to me.

It was also kind of cool learning about the canopies over the north and south sides of the streets. It makes more sense that the north side gets a larger canopy, and now I understand why the campus flowers' canopy always seemed so big.

3/19

Turned in models today! Almost break!