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^ Interesting considering Big Fun at Coventry is closing. There is also a Big Fun in Columbus that isn't closing. I wonder if the original owner is just licensing the name.

There's a really bad lack of green space or parks, so the kids, for hundreds of years, have grown up playing in the very narrow streets. Obviously there's negatives that come along with that but it also leads to very lively streets.

Yabo, did you consider using UH Bikes? They have a hingetown station and you don't have to worry about maintenance. Also if you want to bike one way and use alternative transportation home it's an option. Kind of late for this discussion I know, but just wondering.

It has to be close.

Napoli is often poo-pooed, most of all by northern Italians, but for those with an appreciation for cities and urbanity, for everything not always being pristine and perfect, (and for southern Italian culture) it's amazing. I think you can tell a lot about somebody's personality by whether or not they're willing to look past the city's flaws and give it a chance. Vedi Napoli e poi muori. (See Naples and die)

Pearl Road in Parma Heights is a great example Exactly. Or Mayfield Rd, which we even had a thread about a few years ago. https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,25986.msg729472.html#msg729472

I find the best diversity of businesses, unfortunately, to be located in slightly dumpy strip malls in older suburbs. Can't stand the urban form of it, but in this era those are the buildings with the cheap rents and large enough supply to bring all kinds of interesting things.

Florence - the ultimate walking city New York - love to buy an unlimited metrocard and cruise the subway all day long Cleveland - greatest city in the world, duh Chicago - incredibly beautiful with the modern skyscrapers and the lake Naples - chaos, density, filth, poverty, wealth, history, and beauty of a stunning natural location, an active volcano looming over the city

Even he LA metro area, which in spite of its car dependency is one of the densest in the country, is mostly a bunch of single family homes on very small lots on a very tight street grid.

Yes 1400 Sycamore[/member] you were more properly driving through Midtown. The building at 55th and Carnegie has been the subject of some discussion lately if you want to know more! http://www.cleveland.com/expo/erry-2018/03/04bbf6163a/inside_clevelands_vacant_warne.html#incart_m-rpt-2 https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,3435.msg903615.html#msg903615

Long time skyscraper skeptic here. I have never traveled to Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, or other huge skyscraper oriented cities (and so my only real experience with enormous skyscraper cities would be NY and Chicago) but my experiences traveling across the great cities of Europe have definitely convinced me that height is irrelevant for a great city. Even European cities which have skyscrapers, like London, the skyscrapers are not seen as an important thing. The skyline is equivalent to a very medium sized city in the US, not one of the world's leading financial centers. In Cleveland, the population boom downtown has mostly consisted of residential conversions of old office towers, which has been great, but contrast it with Columbus and all the mid-rises along High St. You end up getting much longer unbroken stretches of vibrant streets.

That's a good move. As much as I enjoy hanging out at trendy urban bars and restaurants, I can't stand when a neighborhood becomes solely trendy bars and restaurants. When I lived in Columbus I got annoyed because I supposedly lived in a "walkable" neighborhood but the only things I could walk to were ultra high end date nights and art galleries. I am by no means a gentrification alarmist but when you have a popular corridor like W. 25th it's easy to lose the diversity of business as rents increase which ends up making the neighborhood a victim of its own success. Jane Jacobs talked about this in her book - she talked about NYC neighborhoods which became so desirable eventually "only banks" could afford to be there, and then it lost what made it great in the first place. Breweries/restaurants are the new banks. Anything that can be done to keep regular old retail stores and other businesses where you can get your errands down should be encouraged, otherwise the area becomes a nightlife Disneyland rather than a real place you can live.

I really like how much they are plugging the HealthLine on the development's website.

It does... but it manages to be hypocritical under all political ideologies.

Haha this initiative is even less libertarian than it is progressive.

I can be a know-it-all if I don't check myself so I try to stop myself correcting in general - I just try to use the proper term next time I say it.

If only some of our own local suburbanites would take their blinders off and get to know the area and come and visit. A very dear friend of mine, who is a great person, lives in the east suburbs, referred to the area as "University Heights" when talking about a visit to the Corner Alley and I died a little inside. Had to stop myself from correcting him.

I'm not sure how this turned into USA vs "Europe," but for the record I find both the American left and right have completely unrealistic and un-nuanced opinions of "Europe." The left thinks it's a paradise where everybody is super enlightened and cultured and nobody is ignorant or starving or poor. The right thinks it's "socialist" when in reality it's capitalist. They just have a slightly more generous safety net. EU states actually have privatized many former government functions... following the lead of the great capitalists of the UK and of Germany. Finally "Europe" is not a country and there is a lot of differences between the different countries. Though to a certain extent a comparison of EU vs USA can be helpful.

He was right about Iraq when nobody else stood up, and I assume he was a decent enough Congressman. Too fringe for an executive position for my preferences, I prefer more centrist "establishment" people in those positions. Add to that his record as Cleveland mayor and his bizarre praise for Trump (even though you'd think Kucinich would strongly oppose Trump's fiscal policy), I'll pass, thank you. I do wonder if he'd pick off alot of eastern Ohio Obama/Trump voters.

Yeah, the only signs I've seen at all is a Kucinich sign on Clifton Boulevard on the West Side of Cleveland while driving last weekend. I live downtown and mostly walk though so don't see a ton of yards or car bumpers.

I'm still a little skeptical but that's actually an interesting point.

How progressive of them

I never thought I'd say this but I hope the good voters of Central and Southern Ohio save the voters of Northeast Ohio from themselves (in the Dem primary at least) WaPo did a long profile of Denny recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/04/09/feature/the-vindication-of-dennis-kucinich/

Thanks KJP[/member] , this will help with my Jacobs lot project.

So apparently "polls have been tightening" and Kucinich might be competitive with Cordray in next month's Democratic Primary. That would be terrible if Kucinich won, and a good way to hand the GOP control for another 8 years. I will be voting in the Dem primary and pulling the lever for Cordray.