It was exciting to see my fellow classmates share their perspectives on the development of Metro Tech. It was particularly interesting to see how similar all our topics where, yet we all managed to focus our research on different areas. Myself and my teammate Diana, chose to focus our study on how  the development of Metro Tech impacted the neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn.  But, learning from the other teams’ research  about how the zoning laws and the city’s overall efforts to “renew” the area, facilitated the development of Metro Tech, helped me to better understand the whole master plan.