8. EPILOGUE
One of the main goals of this paper and my graduate study was to create a problem solving process that I can use and further develop for use in my planning career. I have written forty-eight drafts of this research paper. These numerous revisions have allowed me the opportunity to re-design and more clearly define many ideas that I desired to incorporate. This paper has been an exercise for me to reflect and integrate many of the ideas I brought into the planning program at Ball State University. It has also facilitated the "weeding out" of ideas that would have clouded a clear purpose for this paper. Overall this process has allowed me to integrate the knowledge I brought to this program with that gained from the teachings of the Department of Urban and Regional planning to create, communicate and design.
Truly the process has been of more value than the finished product. Though this process is one that began before my time at Ball State University and one that will continue long after, the experience I have had with these professors has helped to develop critical understandings of the concepts used in this paper and concepts I will use in the future. The research process has also enabled me to connect my past knowledge and interests with planning which I chose to follow.
Before joining the masters program I learned about design through engineering, sustainable/alternative building, permaculture, and organic gardening. I learned to live an economically simple yet ecologically and socially rich rural life. As a master’s student, one of my main goals has been to find out how to integrate positive aspects of rural life into urban spaces. I sought a study where I could combine my previous skills and interests permaculture design with the latest research and technology that I was exposed to in school. I also wanted examine the movement of people and materials through urban space, and the invisible boundaries that guided or inhibited these flows. At Ball State, I became interested in urban design and urban spaces which gave materiality to these movements. This research paper is a place where these larger interests meet.
This study of the farmers' market has satisfied this segment of my planning and urban design studies. This has been an opportunity to examine the farmers' market, an institution I could love without words or logic, through a process that communicates the robust relationship of its elements, proving a number of ways it is vital to many nearly invisible aspects of community life.
Truly the process has been of more value than the finished product. Though this process is one that began before my time at Ball State University and one that will continue long after, the experience I have had with these professors has helped to develop critical understandings of the concepts used in this paper and concepts I will use in the future. The research process has also enabled me to connect my past knowledge and interests with planning which I chose to follow.
Before joining the masters program I learned about design through engineering, sustainable/alternative building, permaculture, and organic gardening. I learned to live an economically simple yet ecologically and socially rich rural life. As a master’s student, one of my main goals has been to find out how to integrate positive aspects of rural life into urban spaces. I sought a study where I could combine my previous skills and interests permaculture design with the latest research and technology that I was exposed to in school. I also wanted examine the movement of people and materials through urban space, and the invisible boundaries that guided or inhibited these flows. At Ball State, I became interested in urban design and urban spaces which gave materiality to these movements. This research paper is a place where these larger interests meet.
This study of the farmers' market has satisfied this segment of my planning and urban design studies. This has been an opportunity to examine the farmers' market, an institution I could love without words or logic, through a process that communicates the robust relationship of its elements, proving a number of ways it is vital to many nearly invisible aspects of community life.
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