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Upon reading “The City” by Park, Burgess and McKenzie I had a very vague understanding of what natural space was defined as, but these reading illustrated how it is easy to see through a metropolitan area. According to the articles a natural space is not just a physical mechanism and artificial construction, it is a product of nature better understood as human nature. The authors understood that humans are social beings so to create a space of interaction from business, to relationship and commerce was a foundation to natural human functioning. Human ecology was being evaluated and that is defined by the study of the special and temporal relations of humans as affected by the selective, distributive, and accommodative forces of the environment. Here we are interested in finding out how the effect of time and space is presented upon human institutions and their behavior. The study of this field can be directly linked to being able to understand “natural space” because a city displays how the environment and current time shape a person through their behavior and the social institutions they have been a part of.
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These are constructs that set ethics and morals around people allowing a natural flow of work among people to be attained. In Uptown Normal there is a safe community feel where it is okay to ask a person a question and not feel violence in the community. This is a part of the natural structure of normal here because this is a more predominantly wealthy area. When you move towards the poorer area of Bloomington there is a natural space of more crime and poverty in comparison to areas like Uptown Normal. The community creates a natural space that meshes in part with the culture, history and social organization of the

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