Comments on: Denver On Foot

By: Albatross

Albatross — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:43:19 +0000

If you didn’t think Denver felt alive, wait til you get to the embalmed corpse that is St. Paul…

By: Bluetoe2

Bluetoe2 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:34:38 +0000

Jane Jacobs said it all in the 60’s. Her seminal work is still an inspiration for urbanists in the U.S.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:50:00 +0000

Last time I was in Denver was late 60’s, early 70’s, remember only the native american museum and the creek. Seemed most lived in surrounding communities. The comment was intended as scathing snark, is that “/ss”?

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:48:14 +0000

whoo hoo Sheryl Crow!

A change will do us good…look at that crowd!

Toby Keith will not be able to put his boot up anyone’s ass except maybe McCain’s.

I’m feeling it!

By: whipmeco

whipmeco — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:33:47 +0000

Yes, for the most part Ian is right. Most of the Denver Metro Area is Sub, Ex-urb areas that require a car to get anywhere. The downtown area and other selected areas are trying a new approach to living areas. There are several communities that are being built around “town centers”, places that have restaurants, coffee shops, etc, but they are now in high demand.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:33:24 +0000

Phoenix isn’t sure if it has a downtown or not.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:32:55 +0000

I used to live in the downtown area of Dallas. Turned weird at night- but interesting.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:31:55 +0000

Most american cities had livable downtowns at one point in time- but they were allowed to decay rather than grow- many are coming back to life- but not in their original forms.

On the West Coast, Portland and San Francisco are two cities where downtown never died. Seattle is an example of revival going well. San Diego is in progress but a long way to go..I don’t know where the hell “downtown” IS in LA….the city without a heart.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:27:10 +0000

See my 6. Jane Jacobs put all that in words.

I travelled to most U.S. cities on business, and they’re mostly all the same. Airport, highway to high rise downtown hotel, with car service to take you a couple of blocks between meeting in high rise identical bldgs, unless they have some garish shape or symbol at the top to make them into a signature bldg. Can’t think of anything much farther away from humanness than that.

By: siri

siri — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:26:55 +0000

So, here is a story, written by a friend of mine who lives in the Caymen Islands, with pictures taken by another friend of mine from DenCo. DenCo is my home town and after 48 years of living there I LEFT in 8/01 and haven’t looked back. It was always a red city in a red state with red neck cops who are quick to hop to red hot rage in any situation.
The last big heyday to be had there for the police state that seethes just below the surface may have been the 70s. There were tear gassed Tull concerts and badly beaten hippies. College campuses were routinely patrolled by armed uniformed men with dogs. It’s a city that started that way and just devolved into it’s what it is now. Denver was where a proud United States calvary hung genitalia from poles and rafters in a local theater after the Sand Creek Massacre. It’s researchable. Google it. I saw copies of the actual newspaper articles on that incident on the net in 2006.
It’s pretty. The people are nice. I don’t miss the authoritarian crack down cop scene.
“To serve and protect” my ass!!!!