Essay 1: What Makes a Place? Describe and analyze a place that is of significance to you. This place may be a neighbourhood, an urban park, or a street. You may illustrate your paper in any way that you want, but be as explicit as possible about the following: 1. Where, exactly, is the place? (Where does it start, where does it stop, and how do you know?) 2. Is this a good place or a bad place? 3. What criteria are you using to judge it? 4. How do you think this place attained its especially good or bad qualities? 5. What would you want to do to change it? Format and Expectations: Your response should be no more than 5 (five) typed pages although illustrations may be in addition to this text. Please use illustrations or graphics but limit these to only what is necessary to make your points. Do the assignment individually, though it is fine to discuss with others in the class. Base the evidence for what you write or illustrate on your own observations and reactions, not on those of others (though you may choose to react to something you have read as a basis for clarifying your own response). You will be expected to reflect on the key issues and topics discussed in class when analyzing your selected place. Feel free to discuss your ideas with the professor prior to submitting your paper. We will be discussing your responses to this assignment in class