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Seattle: Worst waterfront city?
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by Kaitlin | March 1, 2007 at 11:56 am
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Aaron O., the blogger who posted this to Metroblogging Seattle asserts that this distinction brands Seattle a "world class city" (wink, wink). I wonder what the Project for Public Spaces would say about Vancouver...
What do you think, Seattlites? Seattleans? Seattle...rs?
Appearing along side world class cities such as New York, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Paris, Seattle has been featured by the Project for Public Spaces as being one of the worst waterfront cities.Seattle residents adore their scenic mountain vistas. But increasingly they are seeing them through windshields while stuck in gridlock on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an elevated highway that divides downtown Seattle from the waterfront. The Viaduct's future is now the subject of intense debate, due to doubts about its structural integrity. The road may require extensive reconstruction or be replaced with a tunnel. Over 100,000 cars use the Viaduct each day, and deciding its future will be far from easy, since some solutions involve shutting down sections of the central Seattle waterfront for as long as five years.
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at 15:19 on March 1st, 2007
Vancouver also fusses about whether or not it is a "world class city". Those that are, just know.
Having said that, NYC does NOT have a mountain range, and the nearest skiing is in Jersey.
at 07:50 on March 2nd, 2007
"Worst waterfront cities" is quite a misleading title for the article (no fault of Kaitlins). I've read the Public Spaces site and really the title should be "Cities that have let city growth be developed by many different people over decades rather than one grand city planner." Yes, that would be a mouthful, but this "Worst waterfront cities" has nothing to do with the quality of life, the beauty of the surrounding area, or anything really about the city. It merely has to do with how waterfront properties have not been held to an aesthetic standard deemed worthy by this group.
Read the full article here.