How Public Space Reflects a society: Old Pasadena

Public space is an open environment which is created and given lives through forms of human interactions. A public space can reflect a certain culture and create limitations for people interacting in that environment. According to Jack Soloman's Interpreting the Built Environment, "[these] spaces of everyday life, both public and private, personal and architectural, are packed...with complex codes that we violate or ignore at our peril. These codes all originate in the way that …

…fee, a cup of coffee when you read or a beverage after a tiring hour of shopping might not sound significant and is hard to notice but imagine the huge number of people visiting Old Town everyday, corporations are unnoticeably digging a gigantic sum out of consumers' pocket. Finally, I would sum up the whole essay and conclude that Old Town Pasadena's environment echoes with human behavior and that the environment responses by shaping consumerism.