“Place”
” A sense of place results gradually and unconsciously from inhabiting a landscape over time, becoming familiar with its physical properties, accruing history within its confines.”
–Kent Rydon
This quote perfectly describes my experience of sense of place that I had at East Bay Waterfront Park. At the start of the study this area was nothing more then a park that needed better maintenance. Over the time I spent there I began to feel a connection to it. I began to collect memories here, both mine and others. Memories such as the time I had attempted to climb one of the trees for a better picture and fallen out of it, or of the graffiti and trash left around the area (how it got there, who was responsible and why). I looked into the history of the area and learned about the changes it has gone threw to look the way it does today, and I looked into the future to see how it will change again. The time I spent here and researching it, the more my connection of place with East Bay grew.
