Comment 60056

By TnT (registered) | Posted February 20, 2011 at 10:02:45 in reply to Comment 60051

I think that you are not really finding evidence of success. The entire gist of your argument seems to be that you don't see enough people in old photos. I don't think that would hold up in the lab for evidence. There has been loads of articles and studies that show a wide array of things need to be incorporated for a successful downtown. Two way conversion, mixed use, density of living, transit, etc. It can't be single use (i.e highway) or it will fail and it has. I don't see the evidence of a failure in the past reading the retrospective books. Even after 1930 when things moved heavily towards industry, they still had vibrancy.

Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that came before.--Jacob Riis

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