9/15/11

The missing ingredient is brains

A sustainable development plan for Corpus Christi » Corpus Christi Caller-Times: "CORPUS CHRISTI — A transformational redevelopment of Sunrise Mall, one of the topics at Tuesday's City Council meeting, would be SO cool. Who wouldn't want a thriving, pedestrian-friendly commercial-residential mix instead of a long-struggling early 1980s-style shopping center? The council didn't discuss who would do the redeveloping. Profitability, a proven developer attractant, may be a missing ingredient."

The premise is great. At least it's a start. But the missing ingredient is the holistic thinking part. How do you actually make a community' that will abolish today's car-dominated stratification. I would argue you do it by completely redoing construction as outlined in my developing blog Beyond Pattern Language.

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