Comments on: Today on Streetsblog.net http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/03/today-on-streetsblognet/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Umberto Brayj http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/03/today-on-streetsblognet/comment-page-1/#comment-3232 Umberto Brayj Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:14:30 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1456#comment-3232 This article on the upside of a strip mall leaves out the critical problem of human beings transporting themselves to the mall, and then transporting themselves and their gods home again. If there are no cars to schlep, and no other transportation option, then guess what? Your pseudo downtown will lose out the the real thing. BTW, the rendering of a faux-downtown in the article is an insult to the eyeballs. It looks like an Ode to Norwalk, CA. Bleah. The 50's are gone, and brick-, glass-, and plastics-based modernism deserves to go with it. This article on the upside of a strip mall leaves out the critical problem of human beings transporting themselves to the mall, and then transporting themselves and their gods home again.

If there are no cars to schlep, and no other transportation option, then guess what?

Your pseudo downtown will lose out the the real thing.

BTW, the rendering of a faux-downtown in the article is an insult to the eyeballs. It looks like an Ode to Norwalk, CA. Bleah. The 50′s are gone, and brick-, glass-, and plastics-based modernism deserves to go with it.

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