- What are the implications of your analysis? Is this an example of good access to resources, or are there challenges here? Is this an issue of spatial injustice?
- Reflect a little on your spatial analysis lab. What observations did you make? Have the things you noticed impacted how you experience SIUE and/or Edwardsville? How do you think they might impact others’ experiences, whether they’re students, faculty/staff, or community members? What do you think has caused the patterns you identified? If there’s an element of spatial injustice in what you observed, how might it be addressed?
- My analysis implies that you must live on campus and go to school at Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville. I would say this is an example of good access because while it may be a long walk to the city of Edwardsville, there are many other options, such as bike, public transit through the school, rideshares, or car. There are a few challenges if you don’t have access to any of the options I mentioned above, because you will have to walk otherwise. I feel like it is not an issue of spatial injustice.
- I have noticed that I am very fortunate to have a car on campus because everything seems close in a car, but without one, it would be a bit harder, and I would have less freedom. With that in mind, I think people without a car have a harder time here if they need to leave the campus for any reason. However, I think SIUE has a lot of on-campus options that make it easy not to have to leave. Some of these include breakfast, lunch, and dinner options across multiple restaurants. Others include mail/package delivery on campus, doctors office, a daycare for those with kids, many types of living options, plenty of social activities/clubs, and a massive gym. There are many more, but the point is that if you don’t want to, you don’t have to leave the campus. I don’t think there is a social injustice, in my opinion. There is a pattern of opportunity. I believe this because of all the ways you can get to Edwardsville if you had to.