Comment 67267

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted August 03, 2011 at 06:52:11 in reply to Comment 67263

This is a beautiful piece of commentary. (And by the 'voting' thus far, beautifully un-appreciated, as well.)

The exercise presented here is powerful and poignant.

You may soon begin to see how and why planning in our city has unnecessarily become a heavy battle of wits for decades – as you begin to overcome the urge to interject and put an end to the play.

And it goes without saying...though I'll say it anyway, because it's in my job description...that this is a common trait (malady?) here, amongst RTHers.

We entirely skip the play aspect of planning and dive fast into adult-speak – from which arises our pre-matured hardened positions as planners and urbanists, resulting in our brutally simplistic and linear solutions which fail us every thirty years.

Precisely why I posted this: http://raisethehammer.org/comment/67006

Throwing rhetoric and stances and mindsets back and forth is all fine and dandy...but at times it reminds me of the retirees you'll find at any Tim's or McD's on any given morning; the content of their 'conversations' is a) superficial, and b) obdurate.

And to put my money where my mouth is...

Last year, I 'redesigned' Downtown Stoney Creek. Here's Part Nine of my series, in which I addressed the situation, the post where I provided tangible suggestions:

http://mystoneycreek.blogspot.com/2010/0...

What I'd love is to see people here on RTH 'play' a little more. Not in order for anyone to be 'right', or to be The Great Suggester, but simply to open up the discussion, to move beyond rhetoric and quite-often bullying soapboxing.

We're better than that...and our city needs us to be better than that.

Comment edited by mystoneycreek on 2011-08-03 06:52:55

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