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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
It's a chicken/egg thing. People draw businesses--> businesses draw people-->more business-->more people.
Our downtown is probably unsalvageable from a vibrancy standpoint for a long time to come, but we can at least stop digging the hole of bad design any deeper than we already have.
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If the approved design for the new arena is any indication, there's still plenty of bad urban design coming Calgary's way. There's only so much that city administration can do to improve placemaking in Calgary if developers don't want to cooperate and things like budgets keep getting cut.