The Tribune's Daniel Suddeath leaves Erik far behind and explains that just like the radioactive mutant creature in the sci-fi movie, our doughnut hole has shifted from downtown to the old, original suburbs, farther out -- and someday may be headed for the (gasp - no!) exurb itself.
Once thriving area of Charlestown Road in New Albany now defined by vacancies
Some alert readers posting comments at the story page seem to be suggesting that aging concrete sprawl acreage should be converted into parkland. That's good progressive Green thinking, indeed.
Is such non-gasoline-driven subversion actually legal here?
Someone better ask the Slumlord Benevolent Society first.
Except for human scale paths and such, I think we should all do our part, stop manicuring much of anything, quit this collective identity of subsidized suffering, and allow nature space and time to reformulate our trajectory. Let the sprawlers and otherwise ill (both downtown and out of town) try to collatorize a forest of recompense.
ReplyDeleteWe don't even know what would grow without noxious fertilizers and that makes us dumb. There's no need to be hard, gray, and hopeless on top of it.
You know, furhter thought turns my mind eye towards something like Warder Park (spring and Court Avenue in Jeff) filling in some of those dead places as well
ReplyDeleteI live in this area and I would love a whole foods or Trader Joes that I could walk to and shop, a nice little book store or a toy store where my grandkids and I can hang out on cold days , and the idea of a park with a bandstand and a playground sounds great! However, we all know none of this will happen in New Albany where the general concenssus is "if it's not paved, it's not progress".
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