Re: [Mpls] The Death of Walker Library

[Mike Jensvold]

The Walker is definitely quirky, but difficult to love.  It's 
"architecture" is deliberately uninviting, undermining its utility as a 
center of community.  I think it's too early to be cynical about the 
proposal for a mixed-use site.  Let's see what they come up with.

I think this is also a good example of how pedestrian density can reverse 
the auto-centric process that remade parts of the city into surface parking 
lots like at Hiawatha and Lake.

Where foot traffic is dominant or at least significant, it creates a 
virtuous circle where more pedestrian-oriented buildings may profitably be 
built.

Mike Jensvold
East Isles
(a five minute walk from the Walker)
At 08:29 AM 7/1/2004, David Brauer wrote:
On Jul 1, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Becker wrote:
Today at 9:55 the City Council is meeting to start down a path to the
destruction of the Walker Library.
Notwithstanding Carol Becker's fatalist evaluation, here's some background 
for readers, based on the council's May 14 vote not to let the Library 
Board sell bonds to fix the Walker

http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2004/05/27/news/news01.txt
...and the Library Board's May 19 response:
http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2004/06/10/news/news04.txt
David Brauer
Kingfield
Editor, Southwest Journal and Skyway News
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