Frisco: A Portrait Of a City

Architecture

Frisco is a very rapidly growing community, with one of the fastest growing school districts in the nation. It is home to a culturally unique way of preserving our past and ensuring our future. So if you're seeking a fresh new start in life or for your kids in school, then come to Frisco today!

In the Cultural Landscape of Frisco, the dominant element of architecture is large, brick houses. This is occurring because Frisco is a fastly developing city with the school district growing at a rapid pace. Families that come to Frisco are typically young, but large families with 2 or more kids, and they’re seeking a fresh new start in life and education. Therefore, our dominant element is large, but brick houses.

An anomaly in the Cultural Landscape of Frisco are apartments. The apartments are anomalies mainly because most families are large and need houses to satisfy their requirements and plus Frisco doesn’t have a university, so college kids aren’t in need of cheap dorms to stay in, therefore, making apartments an anomaly on the cultural landscape. This shows how Frisco is ideal for young adults and families.

Religion

In Frisco, the dominant element in religion is believing in one of the branches of Protestant Christianity. In the picture, Stonebriar Community Church is a Non-denominational church that is shown. This is a dominant element because in the older Frisco, people who migrated here to start a fresh life, were majority Protestant Christians, thus, a few churches began. For example, the few in downtown Frisco, and over time, it diffused to all of Frisco. This process hasn’t even stopped yet and is still occurring, which is therefore a dominant element in Frisco’s religion.

An anomaly religion of Frisco is Hinduism. In the picture, Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple is shown, this shows that Frisco has a community as diverse and varying in ethnic groups, although this is still an anomaly, because Hindus are only recently beginning to immigrate and Hindu temples aren’t very common in Frisco. Thus, it is an anomaly on the cultural landscape. This goes to show the diversity of the religions in Frisco, so there is a home for everyone.

Restaurants

With the rapidly growing community in masses of young adults moving in, it wasn’t a surprise that McDonald's had showed up in Frisco. McDonald's is a dominant restaurant in Frisco because of the developing age of Frisco. There are values and behaviors that define ways of living, and they’ve spread all throughout Frisco. These behaviors and values are to be eating for fast and cheap, hence drive troughs. Naturally, since McDonald's has these cultural traits, McDonalds has quickly become a popular and dominant restaurant in Frisco.

An anomaly of Frisco’s Restaurants is Randy’s Steakhouse. This is because, the restaurant has the opposite values of people in Frisco, which are: Food that is served to you after a long time and which is fairly expensive as well. These are uncommon cultural traits, along with them being an independent restaurant, especially for a rapidly growing community like Frisco. The only reason, this is here is because in old Frisco, this was made.

Frisco

Frisco is a place full of many fun and exciting things! It’s rapidly growing as time goes by, with it’s special essentials growing progressively. It’s home to diverse types of people and ethnicities, and has a culturally unique way of preserving our past and ensuring our future. So, if you’re wanting a place that’s home to everyone, then come to Frisco today!

Businesses

With Frisco being one of the most rapidly developing communities, chain reactions have strategically expanded to Frisco. In Frisco, one of the most dominant elements of culture in businesses are chain businesses. Specifically Kroger, this is because with modern times, retailers like Kroger have adapted to having all things a typical resident of Frisco would need. Obviously affecting the behavior a certain Frisco resident to go to Kroger. This is also appearing because of the fact that Kroger is a popular store around Frisco as well, so obviously by expansion diffusion, Kroger has expanded to Frisco.

A business that is an anomaly is, Double Dip, this is because double dip is a family-owned business that is independent, meaning it has no more chain. This is on the cultural landscape of Frisco because as an older Frisco, Double Dip was a very popular independent family-owned custered shop, which back then, wasn’t even that uncommon. Through time though independent businesses have either been bought or closed due to the expansion of popular chain businesses. Also, our values have been changed to going to more popular and well-known businesses for quality and price. Thus making Double Dip an anomaly on the cultural landscape.

Toponomy

In Frisco, Heritage High School is an example of a dominant type of Toponymy because along with other high schools, these schools are named after Frisco and its cultural values. For example: Heritage, Liberty, Centennial, etc. This connects with the cultural landscape because a school is given a special name on what the culture of the community values, which is, to preserve our past and to insure our future.

An anomaly of Frisco’s cultural Toponymy is Justin Wakeland High School. Not being named after values, this Toponymy is after a specific person in general. This high school is named after him because Dr. Wakeland was one of the most greatest contributors to FISD, receiving many honors and recognition, and not only to mention, that during his contributions, students in FISD grew from 800 to 3600. Dr. Wakeland has definitely represented the values of Frisco. Therefore, it is an anomaly on the cultural landscape, being named after a person, showing that Frisco has some very kind and contributing people.

Recreation

In Frisco, the dominant recreational activity is soccer. This is occurring because soccer is a popular sport played across all the country, and not to mention, that Frisco has a huge soccer stadium in it too, not only that, but Frisco also has cultural values, which are to stay physically active and grow. This is why they encourage involvement in sports. In this case, soccer, therefore connects to the cultural landscape as it represents Frisco’s values.

An anomaly in Frisco’s recreation, is the Frisco Gun Club. This is an anomaly because although it’s here, it doesn’t reflect Frisco’s values of growing physically and mentally as a person, not only that, but there’s hardly any hunting areas in Frisco, which therefore, makes it an anomaly recreational activity on the cultural landscape. This goes to show that how diverse types of recreation Frisco has to offer.