My town is East Brunswick, NJ, a suburban community part of the New York City metropolitan area. The towns population is 47,512 as to the 2010 census, which is a decent size mostly attributed to its good public school system and vicinity to New York City and I-95 the main highway cutting through the center of New Jersey. The neighborhoods are set up as small communities of developments made by different building companies who build every unit in that area. Each development is along roads like cranberry and route 18 which are main lanes of transportation through the many dense housing sections. This in tern makes it a very automobile oriented community with it being hard to really walk anywhere efficiently. I have a strong attachment to my town as I have experienced all the benefits it brings. My favorite benefit is easily how I enjoy the life of a large suburban community while being close to many other points of interest. My house is 30 minutes from famous points along the Jersey Shore and 40 minutes from one of the biggest and potentially the most popular city in the world.

The first city I chose to analyze is obviously New York City due to its vicinity to me. The city itself affects my town in two ways, income and supply/demand. The city effects my towns affluence in that the average income in the city is much higher then surrounding areas so a majority of the adults in my town fund there relaxed sub urban life with in the hectic metropolitan area also bringing a lot of their energy to my area. It effects supply and demand in that it being such a large harbor and center of shipping it is able to directly supply the demand from the high density towns  near it like my own. Something I can in turn learn from the city is how to handle large density life. With the supply never ending, demand and density in my town is rising and its best to look to areas who have successfully been sustaining a high density area for many years like New York. One way to do this is to fix transportation ahead of time and make it more efficient prior to overdeveloping my area and not being able to move through it logistically. Having a bus or train lane established to the already risen Use Mixture areas as points of interest on a route could help assimilate an ever growing population to my town.

The second city I chose to analyze is a combination of Detroit and Haiti. These are two urban areas where they have put a huge emphasis on agriculture both of the community and their own personal lives. This can be applied to my town in that as our town grows we have been overtaking our original standing farms and filling them with condos and shops. As a community collective effort we can all apply these simple agriculture ideas. From Detroit we can see how using some of the larger home properties with wasted back yards, we can farm specific crops in rotation to help feed the local area, lowering the cost and emissions from food transportation and giving a healthy farm to table product. By using ideas from Haiti we can use small scale subsistence farming to not only again provide healthy and sustainable food but also to improve air quality around developments and improve peoples active life maintaining their farms and even their psychological states.