The model I created for this project explores how the Marigny grid was influenced through the years, beginning in 1798 and moving through specifically chosen dates till now. The gray acrylic that is presented in the model represents the railroads  and explors how it changed from date to date as the model progresses upward to present day. The brown acrylic represents canals that have bisected the marigny and immediate area during the selected dates. Each of the piano wires that are passing through the panels that represent the selected dates are intersection in the roads of the marigny and bywater. The model displays a fine curve from the earliest date till now of the amount of railroad lines laid out through the neighborhood. My assumption is that as the neighborhood grows more and more of these rail tracks will be disappearing to further create a complete curve of their existence. Also, in further study of this phenomena i have noticed that the areas that created the divisions within the neighborhood seem to still hold their division properties in their respected areas of the neighborhood well after they are gone. For example, on Ellysian Fields that street is still so wide that people tend to only cross if it is absolutely necessary because of the width of the street, where as in the inner fabric where there is not a division area people tend to walk around in the middle of the street.  The same divisions can also be read into by the upkeep of areas as you move along the neighborhood (Press would be a good example of this). On a further thought about these division areas that may or may not influence me later i have decided that these areas need to be connected in such a manner as to create the same effect as the inner fabric of the neighborhood where people walk around freely, not constrained by crosswalks and vast expanses of road.

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