On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, attractions are nice, and we should pick and chose which one's we want to invest in, but always remember we have to figure out how to get people to live there if we want any place fun to go after we visit the attraction.
Which means that, from the perspective of the long-term health of the city, successful attractions are those that encourage people to live near them.
Which directly implies that successful attractions are not particularly obnoxious.
Which directly implies that successful attractions are relatively small in scale, and don't cause parking headaches, etc.
Which directly implies that there is no "One Big Thing" which can ultimately be the savior of us all.
This is a critical point: When building a city, there is not "One Big Thing" like a baseball stadium or any of that which is worth spending your last nickel of bonding authority on.
And it further flows that a good overall environement -- both in the business sense and the human sense -- is going to be more important than anything else.
The "One Big Thing" like Southdale or whatever is suburban thinking of the 1950s. It's never been close to what works in the city. People need to get that sheid out of their heads right now.
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