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<\/a>\nFast Company<\/em> writes about a recent proposal to revitalize downtown Cleveland through a new park.\u00a0Two Cleveland non-profits, Parkworks<\/a> and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance<\/a>, commissioned James Corner Field Operations<\/a> to create\u00a0a set of\u00a0downtown revitalization proposals. Both organization\u00a0hope to\u00a0use the proposals to build overwhelming\u00a0public support\u00a0for downtown revitalization and, hopefully,\u00a0gain financial commitments from the city.\u00a0\u00a0Fast Company<\/em> writes: “If you’ve ever been to Cleveland, you know the downtown area is a forbidding, pedestrian desert. The main public space, Public Square, is no better–it’s a wind-scarred, 10-acre expanse flanked by skyscrapers.”<\/p>\n
To create a new public square park, Field Operations proposes to\u00a0join together a “patchwork of paved islands” into an unified park.\u00a0To unify the space, Field Operations offered a few ideas: a frame, a forest, or a “thread.” The thread won the most support from the sponsors — it will include\u00a0a “biomorphic ramp that would rise 20 feet above the roadway below,” creating unique perspectives of the city, much like Field Operations’ High Line Park in New York City (see earlier post<\/a>).<\/p>\n Parkworks and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance\u00a0think a new Field Operations-designed park\u00a0can bring in people, shops, and also\u00a0increase real estate values.\u00a0A new park could lead to more valuable downtown real estate, and, therefore, higher property taxes.\u00a0Increased property tax revenue could\u00a0then\u00a0be used to\u00a0finance the\u00a0park.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In January, the design proposals will be on view for the public.<\/p>\n Read the article<\/a> and see more images. Check out James Corner Field Operation’s design proposals (big file – 7.5MB)<\/a><\/p>\n Also, check out ArchNewsNow<\/em>’s report<\/a> on\u00a0the last twenty years of\u00a0downtown Pittsburgh’s revitalization efforts, which focus on the river. Michael A. Stern, ASLA, LEED AP, writes: “The population of the City of Pittsburgh peaked at more than 700,000 inhabitants right after World War II, but now hovers at around 320,000, and continues a slow decline. Moreover, the whole Pittsburgh metropolitan area has seen a significant population decline as well, as the earthquake effect of the disappearance of the steel industry continues to send aftershocks through the region some 25 years later. But Pittsburgh \u2013 and Downtown in particular \u2013 has unique assets and history that continue to maintain a healthy urban core.”<\/p>\n Image credit: Field Operations \/ Fast Company<\/em><\/p>\n Fast Company writes about a recent proposal to revitalize downtown Cleveland through a new park.\u00a0Two Cleveland non-profits, Parkworks and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, commissioned James Corner Field Operations to create\u00a0a set of\u00a0downtown revitalization proposals. Both organization\u00a0hope to\u00a0use the proposals to build overwhelming\u00a0public support\u00a0for downtown revitalization and, hopefully,\u00a0gain financial commitments from the city.\u00a0\u00a0Fast Company writes: “If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"