
(Ed. note: Not sure if this was entered anonymously as a lark or conversation starter, but this is the original site plan Breuer produced calling for two identical towers (the second was scratched after Cleveland Trust was sold to Ameritrust).
The mall is all about our appetite for stuff, our greedy habit of consuming more than anyone else in the world. It is about our relationship to cars — off the freeway, with plenty of parking! — and our abandonment of our cities. It is about our infantile attention span, our embrace of the artificial, our transformation from a country that makes things to a country that buys things. Things we do not need.
— Joanna Connors
It’s time we built a high-speed rail system connecting Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinnati. It’s time we fund our transit systems to be strong competitors to the car. It’s time we invested in Complete Streets (like the Euclid Corridor). It’s time we fixed our potholes. It’s time we stopped building new highways to nowhere. It’s time we had a real conversation about investing in a transportation system that recognizes climate change, peak oil, and sustainable solutions.
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(Ed. note: Not sure if this was entered anonymously as a lark or conversation starter, but this is the original site plan Breuer produced calling for two identical towers (the second was scratched after Cleveland Trust was sold to Ameritrust).
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