I keep looking for the signs. Today's Plain Dealer proclaims hope for downtown. [1] Believe me, I want to believe it. How many downtown employees live, shop and recreate downtown? Have institutions done all they can to encourage a small footprint? I like Michael Schwartz at CSU [2]--does he live nearby? Ditto, for all the CEOs and intitutional leaders at the Clinic, CWRU, CPL, NEORSD, NOACA...
I don't mean to be mean, but really LEAD us. Send a message. Keep your estates...I really don't care where you spend the weekend, but consider a pied–à–terre [3]
Really. Send a message.
“What are our needs for happiness?” Peñalosa said in explaining his policies. “We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And, most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.” [4]
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Links:
[1] http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/euclid_corridor_project_helps.html
[2] http://www.csuohio.edu/president/
[3] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pied-a-terre
[4] http://www.enroutemag.com/e/february08/feature2_a.html