Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Transit first Olympics planning in Chicago

From "With or without the games," subtitled "Daley plans new land, housing even if we don't get Olympics," in the Chicago Sun-Times:

With 15,000 fewer seats than originally planned, the stadium-in-a-park includes a partial roof, 117 luxury suites, and club seats to generate even more revenue. Two-thirds of the seats would be located in a temporary grandstand. The stadium would be wrapped in photographs of Olympic heroes to cover an otherwise mundane temporary skin. There would be no parking, putting a premium on an Olympic transportation system to be developed in conjunction with CTA.

The article has a slide show with various renderings of the waterfront, Olympic Village, and the temporary stadium.

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