steveve
Senior Member
amen!!!
this is very mixed, me personally, i think it looked good up close, but from a distance/with the skyline, too distracting,
amen!!!
... through an almost complete lack of engagement with it, except at times on a very private level. I do see this as changing but for the most part the river, ravines and even the lake have been viewed somewhat indifferently at best, as obstacles at worst, rather than embraced as urban opportunities.
But engaging with the delightfully untamed ravines on a private level is what keeps them from being just another urban experience - and that's what we want, surely?
In one sense I agree but cities are ultimately about people and the urban spaces that accommodate them, and in this sense I'm inclined to feel that an illusion of being 'untamed' is more interesting and far more accommodating than the reality of being so, in an urban context at least: as with a 'wild' English Garden or with highly successful urban spaces like Central Park or Stanley Park it is the interaction of design and man with nature - an engagement of a different level - that can create this illusion.
hahaha superman! Nice
I like the simpler west side just as much. Nice to have both I think.