Comment 35671

By jonathan dalton (registered) | Posted November 23, 2009 at 15:17:52

I just read about how they ruined the market in the 1950's as part of the reconfiguration of our streets to prioritize car traffic. My friend found a book from 1987 about the whole 150 year history of the market and it was full of pictures of York, Market and James Streets the way they used to be with the open air market. Seeing those pictures made me realize what we had back then was very close to the European public squares - a useful public area surrounded by buildings with every amenity. What we try and so often fail to create today - think Gore Park, the City Hall courtyard, the roof of Jackson Square, (Fail, Fail and Fail) is just what we destroyed 50 years ago. It doesn't need to be this difficult. Still, kind of funny how the market renovations and York streetscape is just getting around to fixing what we are finally admitting that we broke: Bring it out to the street, slow down traffic.

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