Whenever I've walked through trimmed neighborhoods or valued cityscapes, I've seen the beautiful architecture and landscaping that make these places beautiful to many. I walk past rose gardens, fluffy bushes, and trimmed grasses. However, the thought of the purpose behind these things never crosses my mind, typically.
However, since listening to conversation in this class we were prompted to think about the purpose of these things, and particularly the wall.
The wall in gardens these days I thought was mostly decorative and to keep children from walking on property, maybe even to keep a criminal from desiring to steal things inside the property. Maybe these are true, and maybe these are all that it carries. The wall isn't what a wall in itself typically is used for. It is more so decorative to its end, rather than useful. That may be okay, but it is worth noticing.
Since towers gave people a sort of power over the land they have become masters, kings, rulers. People have since seen inequality and tried to make things equal. Over time from the towers of general humanity vast, beautiful gardens of Versailles were trimmed down to fit the everyday person. English gardens began to be cultivated everywhere, and everyone became masters of their own place.
Perhaps the English were the first to leap the fence and see that all of nature was a garden. England and their enclosure acts this is a screwiness. The hedgerow now is like a fence, but doesn't work as a wall. And also connects to industrialization also feeds into this.
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