Spartan65

Supposedly the last fifty are having trouble loading. Anyway, I thought I'd lost these. This was my 5th set I ever did, where I started improving, I think. It was over 100 degrees that day. Today 20 degrees might be pushing it, and I broke two ice breakers trying to get the car ready for my birthday brunch, and will probably have to de-ice the car to leave for dinner tonight, again.

I was really limited for time, but I could have taken a whole lot more of the vast preservation area on campus. About a half (the northern half) of the OU campus looks just like that, the middle portion is fugly dorm towers, and the southern half is mostly new (but not necessarily ugly). I have another photo thread that goes a couple hundred feet further east than this one did: http://okmet.org/bb/index.php?topic=123.0

This is actually Part II in a 1,000+ photo series I've been doing of the inner parts of Norman, where I live. Photos are of the western fringe of OU. Here goes: First signs of fall...

Is Cincinnati loosing population to the suburbs, or is population (tax base) relatively level? As long as no harm is already being done to Cincy, why not? Of course an urban city can offer one type of lifestyle. Suburbs offer another, and you won't find suburbanites in urban areas, and you shouldn't find urbanites in suburban areas (although the latter does happen is less-developed metros). If companies go to downtown Cincy the only real gain would be the company itself. The employees will still live where they want, although downtown will just be that much more convenient for them (actually most foks living in downtown OKC work in office buildings on the outer loop or in a suburb, and most downtown workers actually live in apartments or historic neighborhoods on the north side). What you have is people striving for variety in their life, basically. Is there not a metro-wide Cincy chamber? I actually looked into the job a year or so ago of president of you all's chamber (I'm perfectly happy in Oklahoma at the moment, one of the loveliest states I've lived in), so you can't say there isn't already a metro-wide economic development task force. Hopefully some kind of partnership may be bridged between the city and the chamber. You know the Cincy Chamber ranks as one of the most effective economic development agencies in the nation.

Hot damn, it is.

Nah.

K

So what happens now? Is there an Internet way of flipping a coin?

Regionalism asside, you can never beat Tulsa. Thanks for playing all. Next time It'll be across the pond.

Richmond is a pretty darn good guess, as someone who frequents both. Think of cities that would look simillar to Richmond. Well it's none of these cities. When someone gets it I'll throw a party, how's that? :clap:

Go for it.

So when's the next photo?

Well I did. Urban OK forums got hacked and we had to restart. I haven't redirected the domain yet, but it's okmetropolis.forumer.com. The domain is urbanok.org, but like I said, I haven't gotten it moved over. We've been really busy after loosing 15,000 posts and 500 members. Thanks for asking though.

It would be in the wrong forum then, wouldn't it? Ok State in Stillwater is even prettier... but I'm an OU kinda guy, not to be seen in Stillwater. :-) I'm going to do some shots of Norman's downtown area and some older commercial and residential neighborhoods in Norman, and I will take some more shots of the university in the fall for sure. I hope to get up to Tulsa in the fall too. I've taken over a thousand urban photos of OKC in the last half year, so I'm moving my focus...

Notice: These are photos from Norman, OK, and not Columbus, OH or Eugene, OR. Evans Hall The Parrington Oval (buildings along and views from) Now to cross the oval (Don't get OU confused with UT... preppies go here) Campus Corner (quaint little neighborhood north of campus, across from Boyd Street) Views and scenes from the northern lawn The Bizzell Library (a complex) and the OU Clocktower (and only one or two other buildings) (This is so pretty)