Kevin

Hi, welcome to my Park page.

2. My persuasive letter:
To: Mathsland, Covering and Surrounding, 2 timestable street

From: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Middle of Nowhere 123 Fake Street

Dear CPC,

I think you should choose my park because anybody can come to my park, whether it's for relaxing, playing, or eating. As you can see on my park above, it might not look that fancy, but it is good. My park is very big, I have a big open picnic area for people to put their mats down there and eat, and in the picnic area, there is a flower garden and a small pond. My pond will have ducks in them, and people love ducks. The flower garden is good also because anyone who just wants a nice walk could go there to enjoy their walk with a nice fragrance. For little playful children, there is an enormous playground, a swimming pool, a big open grass area, a skateboard area, and their parents could rent some bikes for them. The picnic is next to the playground because if families want to have a picnic and their little children want to go play, their parents can keep an eye on them because their right next each other. There is a big open grass area for anyone to do anything, which might include soccer, playing catch, cricket, and many other sports and activities. Now if the people are hungry but they just want a little snack, there is a hot dog stand and an ice-cream stand located right next to the open grass area, for many kids to enjoy. The white space in my park is for people who want to bike, run, or just have a nice walk. There is also a bike rental shop there if people want to rent bikes. For some extreme kids who want to skateboard, there is a little skateboard area with rails and ramps so they can have a little fun. There is also a tutor there in the beginner's area for first time skateboarders. The skateboard area is all indoors so people can have air-condition. For people who like swimming, there is a big swimming pool, for people who just want to swim, or for people who want to play in the pool. For people who just want to eat, there is also a cafeteria with a variety of food. This is also indoors for people to get air-conditioned. Don't worry, I didn't forget about the bathrooms. There are bathrooms in the cafeteria, but you can't see it on the map because it's indoors. For the disabled people on wheelchairs, they can come to relax in the picnic area. It doesn't matter if there is someone pushing them, or if their pushing themselves, it is all mainly flat ground and it is wide so it is easy to roam around on their wheelchairs. Overall, my picnic is big with lots of space for people to roam around. Anybody can go to it, from hyper kids, to relaxed people. You can go to my park to do just about anything, from enjoying the scenery, to playing sports all day.

How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the Upper Field by wheelchair?
I have learned many things about the access to to the Upper Field by a wheelchair. I learned that some places it might not be accessible for people on wheelchairs, because there are usually stairs, and narrow pathways which they can't go to. A good example is going to the Upper Field, there is a small narrow little hill, if people choose to go that way, and there is no one pushing him/her, that person won't probably get up, because there is not enough of space, and it's steep. There is also stairs, so you can't go to the upper field properly unless people carry the person. I know these things because i have tried it. If there was a person on a wheelchair and his friends go with him, who aren't on wheelchairs, and they have been waiting to go on the park for a long time and they really want to go, the person on the wheelchair will feel left out, because he can't go to the field properly.

What have you learned about the process when designing the park? Eg, how did you manage to convert real dimensions to grid dimensions and vice versa?
During the process of designing the park, I learned many things, like using Macromedia Freehand. At the start it was kind of difficult, because it was the first time I did it, and I didn't have the hang of it. Eventually, I got the hand of it, and it became easier to use. I didn't really get some of the buttons on the toolbars, and I don't get what the top of the right toolbar does. I still don't understand what some of the buttons do. I also learned how to make images smaller, or bigger in Adobe Photoshop CS2, and I also learned how to save something into a JPEG document.

What suggestions can you make for improving the process for next year’s students?
Some suggestions for next year's students to make it easier for them, is first decide whether you want 2m equal 1 square, or 5m equal 1 square first. Then make sure your picnic and their playground equals to half of your whole entire park. I would also suggest that the people should record their dimensions as they go along and make the shapes, because if you do it at the end, you can't really make your report early and get it over with, and it might be a little confusing, and stressfull.