{"id":22,"date":"2019-12-04T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/?p=22"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:31:03","slug":"sense-of-place-lewisville-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/2019\/12\/04\/sense-of-place-lewisville-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense of Place-Lewisville, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"392\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Tunnel-of-Trees-e1575491297981.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"27\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Tunnel-of-Trees-e1575491297981.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/tunnel-of-trees\/\" class=\"wp-image-27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Tunnel-of-Trees-e1575491297981.jpg 486w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Tunnel-of-Trees-e1575491297981-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Conrad Road<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"388\" height=\"298\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Square-e1575491280731.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"26\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Square-e1575491280731.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/square\/\" class=\"wp-image-26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Square-e1575491280731.jpg 388w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/Square-e1575491280731-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Shallowford Square<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"278\" height=\"268\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/SSquare-e1575491258819.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"24\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/files\/2019\/12\/SSquare-e1575491258819.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/ssquare\/\" class=\"wp-image-24\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Square Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Burlington is a lovely\ntown filled with many places and things and people that make it the place it is.\nIt really has a sense of place beyond the suburban sprawl of South Burlington. My\ntown at home is similar in that it tries to maintain its sense of place next to\na blocks of block stores and the same chain stores and restaurants you\u2019d see in\nany town. Lewisville, North Carolina is the town that I call home. Our small\npopulation of around 15,000 people allows for a rural sprawl of residential,\nprivate land as opposed to the suburban neighborhood \u201cglory-land\u201d of the\nneighboring town, Clemmons. The sense of place is readily apparent throughout Lewisville,\nexcept for two of its shopping centers, which house all block stores. The\nhistory of Lewisville is short, as it was only recently incorporated in 1991,\nbut a focal point of that history is the creation of the town square, dubbed \u201cShallowford\nSquare,\u201d which set the tone for the design of the rest of the town, making it\npedestrian-friendly and giving the town more of a sense of place. The \u201cdowntown\u201d\narea was designed to keep the same original style of buildings, meaning many\nhomes along the main strip were just converted into business, while maintaining\nthe aesthetic that the town planners aimed to keep. Beyond the \u201cdowntown\u201d area,\nthe town was and still is comprised of mostly farms. There is little enough\npopulation to keep from too many close-quartered neighborhoods that frequently\npop-up in the suburbs. Most of Lewisville is treated as a rural area, so the sense\nof place outside of downtown is typically that of nature and the trees in a particular\narea. A place in Lewisville that is particularly well-known for its sense of\nplace is Conrad Rd. The road is lined on either side with maple trees and\nbeyond those is just a field and it creates a tunnel of leaves that changes\ncolors throughout the season. There are multiple ways to get to my house, but\nthis one is the most beautiful. Even though it takes longer if I take Conrad Road,\nit makes me feel more at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nsense of place in my hometown has not really changed much since I have moved there\nfrom San Marcos, California in 2008. While the town has a nice aesthetic by\nmaintaining so many trees and forested areas around the stylistic houses and\nbusinesses, it is mostly older folks who live in the town and run the\ngovernment. This makes for a stagnant sense of place as the actual aesthetic\nnever really changes, but with the seasons change, the trees and surrounding\nforest make some aspects of the architecture pop throughout spring and summer. The\nplace that has been developed by Lewisville town planners throughout the years helped\ndevelop me into feeling like I grew up in a small southern town. It felt\nsmaller than it was which made me feel a little bit bigger in the world. Lewisville\nhas linked itself with a stale pattern of sluggishness in my mind, but will always\nbe a place for me to feel at home again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burlington is a lovely town filled with many places and things and people that make it the place it is. It really has a sense of place beyond the suburban sprawl of South Burlington. My town at home is similar in that it tries to maintain its sense of place next to a blocks of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/2019\/12\/04\/sense-of-place-lewisville-nc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sense of Place-Lewisville, NC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vbgarris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}