http://cityparksblog.org/2009/07/09/meet-me-in-a-new-st-louis-garden/ A Chronicle of the Urban Parks Movement Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cityparksblog.org/2009/07/09/meet-me-in-a-new-st-louis-garden/#comment-860 Stacey T. Stone Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:15:53 +0000 http://cityparksblog.org/?p=920#comment-860 I have problems with seeing your blog clearly via the most recent release of Opera. It's fine in Explorer 7 and Firefox though.Hope you have a great day. I have problems with seeing your blog clearly via the most recent release of Opera. It’s fine in Explorer 7 and Firefox though.Hope you have a great day.

]]> http://cityparksblog.org/2009/07/09/meet-me-in-a-new-st-louis-garden/#comment-714 Leon Hartung Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:07 +0000 http://cityparksblog.org/?p=920#comment-714 The Mall has nothing to do with uniting or dividing downtown slouis. That would have been up to the developers of both sides of the Mall, with city guidance and inspiration, which has been totally abandoned. The Mall was designed as a grand avenue between the Arch and Union Station, a magnificent horizen line and park respite for downtown. A full illustrative spread on what it was intended to be was published in the post-dispatch Sunday Pictures Section in the late 50's or early 60's [by the way; the Arch was designed in the late 1940's, NOT 1965]. It was badly mutilated by the inane city "fathers" who allowed construction of an office building right in the middle of it, a lunatic decision which has forever ruined the Mall as a place and a concept, regardless of what is done with a few other blocks of it. The glaring intrusion of that horrid building into the Mall, as vividly displayed in your picture, exposes slouis as a podunk town. Even without that building, lining the Mall with inhumane garages, as the city has also allowed [and as your picture shows], has completely deadened what should have been a unique, spectacular and elegiac feature of the city. The Mall has nothing to do with uniting or dividing downtown slouis. That would have been up to the developers of both sides of the Mall, with city guidance and inspiration, which has been totally abandoned. The Mall was designed as a grand avenue between the Arch and Union Station, a magnificent horizen line and park respite for downtown. A full illustrative spread on what it was intended to be was published in the post-dispatch Sunday Pictures Section in the late 50′s or early 60′s [by the way; the Arch was designed in the late 1940's, NOT 1965]. It was badly mutilated by the inane city “fathers” who allowed construction of an office building right in the middle of it, a lunatic decision which has forever ruined the Mall as a place and a concept, regardless of what is done with a few other blocks of it. The glaring intrusion of that horrid building into the Mall, as vividly displayed in your picture, exposes slouis as a podunk town. Even without that building, lining the Mall with inhumane garages, as the city has also allowed [and as your picture shows], has completely deadened what should have been a unique, spectacular and elegiac feature of the city.

]]> http://cityparksblog.org/2009/07/09/meet-me-in-a-new-st-louis-garden/#comment-525 miracleplaysystems Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:42:05 +0000 http://cityparksblog.org/?p=920#comment-525 What a great idea to create a public space in a place that seems to be easily accessible to all. Not only this, the trees will help reduce carbon levels. This, as well as the example of the free-way molded into a park environment, should taken seriously by all in order to create more longterm and sustainable living environments. What a great idea to create a public space in a place that seems to be easily accessible to all. Not only this, the trees will help reduce carbon levels. This, as well as the example of the free-way molded into a park environment, should taken seriously by all in order to create more longterm and sustainable living environments.

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