Bruce's Essay

JUA
My Junior Urban Adventure project is about Urban Infrastructure in Boston City. Before we went to the Boston, we made an essential question about the problem in the Boston. My essential question is “How can we make more buildings and decrease the pollution at the same time?” I made this question, because there are more and more buildings and more traffics in the Boston City now, so the Boston became more convenience, but the buildings and traffics also cause a lot of pollutions. When I got to Boston, I saw so much smoke, traffic, noise around all the place. Boston is not like before anymore, and I think the problem of the pollutions is not the problem in Boston only, it is the problems in all world, it is everyone’s problems. For this reason we need to find the way that can decrease those pollution.
I also asked my essential question to Mr. Levine who is the leader of the new hotel project of the CBT architect. He said now the technology is much higher than before, so they used a machine that can recycle the energy, so it can save a lot of the energy, and it also would not cause a lot of the heat pollution. And I also heard about that the government made some laws about the pollution, so I made some research on it. That institution is called Air Pollution Control Commission (APCC). They control the emission of air contaminants, such as the air that cause people feel bad, make people sick, get disease, or die, unreasonably interfere with people comfortable, people’s life, people’s property, or people’s business. The Air Pollution Control Commission made a law about the limit of pollution air and noise can make when people build a building. When those architects get limit for the smoke or the noise, they would not cause too much pollution.
I also asked the random people who live in Boston about the pollution problems in Boston City now. They said the Boston looks very different than before, more cars more buildings, more smoke, more noise. Those factors cause a lot of air pollution, and noise pollution, and they also take a lot of energy away. They think that if more people takes subway or others public transportation instead drive their own car, then it can make less pollution, or government should trying to build more parks. Those methods may help decreasing the pollution problems. They all hope the government can make more programs to help decreasing the pollution in Boston City. Of course no body wants to live in pollution city.
After this Junior Urban Adventure, I learned a lot of things about the relative between a building and pollution. But after I think a while, I think that if people really want to decrease those pollutions we have now, they can not just try depend on government. People should find someway together and do it, because the pollution is everyone’s problem not just government’s problems.