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What does the everyday Valpo look like to you? Brick buildings, trees, and awkwardly placed sidewalks that are even more awkward now that they are all torn up by construction. There is construction everywhere: on campus and in the surrounding city. Valpo University is building a new Union and a new parking garage. There also is a plan to make Valpo U a walking campus within the next ten years. Places are always changing: some good changes and other’s detrimental. In the surrounding Valparaiso, a shopping complex has sprouted and it is expanding even further into the city. It is incredible how new restaurants and businesses can sprout up over night. When I go home on breaks, I almost always find a new restaurant or drug store or strip mall. I have lived in the same city for all of my life and it used to have many more plots of land filled with the natural beauty of flowing green grassy fields with large sturdy trees that had decorated the land for years. Now in their place I find manicured lawns decorated by massive homes: each one almost identical to the one next to it.
There seems to be a loss of charm in character in many parts of America today. There needs to be a new movement in preserving what makes a place special. We need to celebrate each neighborhood or town’s history: the traditions, the foods, the music, the first homes, the natural wonders. While not all change is bad (I have to admit that I enjoy the convenience of having a Target less than a mile away), it is important to see what once illuminated the heart of the city far before the neon lights.
What does the everyday Valpo look like to you? Brick buildings, trees, and awkwardly placed sidewalks that are even more awkward now that they are all torn up by construction. There is construction everywhere: on campus and in the surrounding city. Valpo University is building a new Union and a new parking garage. There also is a plan to make Valpo U a walking campus within the next ten years. Places are always changing: some good changes and other’s detrimental. In the surrounding Valparaiso, a shopping complex has sprouted and it is expanding even further into the city. It is incredible how new restaurants and businesses can sprout up over night. When I go home on breaks, I almost always find a new restaurant or drug store or strip mall. I have lived in the same city for all of my life and it used to have many more plots of land filled with the natural beauty of flowing green grassy fields with large sturdy trees that had decorated the land for years. Now in their place I find manicured lawns decorated by massive homes: each one almost identical to the one next to it.
There seems to be a loss of charm in character in many parts of America today. There needs to be a new movement in preserving what makes a place special. We need to celebrate each neighborhood or town’s history: the traditions, the foods, the music, the first homes, the natural wonders. While not all change is bad (I have to admit that I enjoy the convenience of having a Target less than a mile away), it is important to see what once illuminated the heart of the city far before the neon lights.
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