1. Downtown Madison on State Street, looking toward the capital dome.
2. Jesse and Jared in the real ale tent, suckling NABC's Malcolm's Old Setters Ale.
3. Gregg and Leilah in NABC's t-shirt tent, helping to clothe Madison.
The trouble with taking photos is that I always have a beer in my hand getting in the way.
3 comments:
If Madison and Copenhagen are models which progressives wish to emulate, which models do…um…anti-progressives (?) see as models?
How about Houston, Texas? Houston had no zoning for most of its history. Unlike Dallas, a model of planning and widely considered an attractive city, Houston is generally considered “ugly.” Even Houston finally gave up and implemented its first zoning ordinance a few years ago.
Local two-way opponents seem to think NA streets achieved perfection in the 1950s. Is anyone today adding new one-way streets, the best of 1950s high engineering and thought? Has anyone tried a bike lane and through, “no, that doesn’t work….” Would one of the two-way street and/or bike lane opponents offer a suggestion and point out the virtuous of a specific, contemporary, model city which he or she believes NA should emulate?
Mayberry doesn’t count.
Though your overall point is well taken, Dan, Dallas is hardly a model of planning. They've made some strides recently, but that area of Texas is sprawl central.
It could be used as a model city by two-way street and bike lane opponents.
I recall a David Sedaris story where Sedaris is on the subway in Paris. At the front of the subway car is a group of college students from Texas. They’re debating which is the better city: Paris or Houston.
I don’t aim to hold Dallas out as a model. My point was that even in anti-government Texas, Houstonians deem their lack of land planning and land use regulations to have created an undesirable urban environment.
That is, unless you’ve never known anything better.
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