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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Specific examples, please.
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Well, LA's is the best I've been to. LA Live I think is the gold standard for the all encompassing bar and entertainment district around the stadium. Westgate in Glendale is pretty decent, and downtown Phoenix has some great potential. Columbus looked interesting, but I didn't get a chance to spend much time around it. Cincinnati's Riverfront was great, all thought it was a take in the game and do a quick walk rather than spend a ton of time there. Places that I like that aren't traditional are Tampa's setup. Harbor Island is great and they are doing their best to create a Tampa Live around Amalie Arena and Channelside. The best there is Ybor City, but its not really part of that district, although you can take street car from the aquarium there, which is very cool. The place I would like to see Calgary try and replicate, which isn't a true entertainment district as they currently are being built, it Atlanta's Buckhead district. It is obviously more organic in its development and probably more like Calgary would like the Victoria Park redevelopment to go. Very cool.
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I go to Shibuya and Shinjuku in Tokyo quite often, entertainment districts, and there are massive tracks right through both those districts that transport tens of thousands of people per day. Yoyogi National Gymnasium - a huge arena - is right in Shibuya too, next to train tracks.
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Can't speak for Tokyo, or Japan in general, as I've never been. Are they moving industrial chemicals and freight through that area, or are these like light rail tracks. I think we can agree that there is a big difference between those two.
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Also, do you even realize that a master plan is not the same as the equivalent of a high-level infographic from Nenshi's campaign? I don't have to remind you of this, right?
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Sure, it's a high level plan, but it is still all over the road map. In a winter city, that much ground to cover kind of defeats the purpose. I'll be interested to see how it develops because right now, the concept is brutal on paper.