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Dave Amos of City Beautiful examines pragmatic strategies to fix stroads, aka “suburban arterials.”
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City Beautiful: Lessons Learned from Paris and Chicago
Located alongside the Ohio River, The Banks is the oldest neighborhood found in downtown Cincinnati. Originally the epicenter of freight rail for the western portion of the United States, The Banks have always been central to Cincinnati's identity and image. Only recently has it been renovated due to the Ohio River flooding in 1997. After this tragedy that left all buildings in The Banks unusable, the movement to completely refresh this area of Cincinnati was finally put to work.
Pictured above is the original draft for The Banks presented in 1997. If you are familiar with The Banks you will notice that the original draft presented is almost identical to how we see this area today. Most of the reasons why is due to its clear inspiration from the City Beautiful movement, found in Chicago and Paris most notably.
Railways and Roadways: Cincinnati’s railways and train stations are not present in the downtown Cincinnati Banks area. Originally the Cincinnati Union terminal, built in 1933, held traffic over World War II and saw a decline over the next decades. This decline caused the train concourse to be demolished in 1974 and was then reoperating in 1991 as the Cincinnati Museum we know and love today. Union Terminal’s purpose was to bring together the railways to decrease congestion in the city and the poor conditions the tracks were kept in prior to the construction of the Union Terminal. Today the benefits of a train concourse would bring connectivity to other cities allowing more visitors to move smoothly through the area and bringing in more social and economic connections.
As seen above, Cincinnati houses the Great American Ballpark for the Reds and Paycor stadium for the Bengals, introducing visitors from states all over the US. With this incoming traffic, railways and train stations would be more effective in reducing congestion on highways and roadways. Cincinnati has a higher car dependency than other cities due to limited transportation options, with the increase in public transportation in the Banks, less congestion, aging of the roadways, and maintenance problems would occur. Ways Cincinnati can emulate Haussmann’s designs is to designate walkable areas and travel areas. This would enhance the city's community as well as the city's public spaces. Haussmann’s boulevard design in Paris can be emulated in Cincinnati today with the development of pedestrian-friendly spaces and more road width to reduce the backed-up traffic. Hausmann’s boulevard design improved traffic flow as well as pedestrian flow which Cincinnati is currently lacking. Cincinnati is also known for hosting various festivals and events. These events are usually hosted on roadways which harms the traffic downtown. Grant Park Chicago, which echos Haussmann’s advances made in Paris’ green spaces, hosts similar events that can be replicated on the Banks with their green spaces. With more public green spaces and areas these events could be moved to, it would be more efficient on the traffic as well a more efficient use of space for pedestrians.
One of the many changes made to Paris and Chicago during the City Beautiful movement was to improve sanitation in the city by destroying infected alleyways and centers for epidemics. While currently, The Banks does not have any infected parts of its streets, the Ohio River is not the clean blue river that it once was. Many complaints for other states that the Ohio River runs through have been filed most notably by the state of Kentucky. Kentucky filed a complaint against DuPont, a company responsible for creating a broad array of industrial chemicals, for the mass amount of chemicals that can be found in the river. The most notable of which is the pre-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, which are known as forever chemicals. It goes without saying that having these chemicals run through the heart of Cincinnati is absolutely not sanitary which does violate one of the four guiding principles of the City Beautiful movement.
Debate Question:
Which aspect of the City Beautiful movement should Cincinnati work towards implementing first?
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there is always tomorrow
#lovecore#hopecore#webweaving#the presence of love is beautiful in itself#you got this#self care#self love#recovery#healing#hopepunk#recovery is not linear it is okay to have bad days you have the entirety of your life to have a better day#i wish anyone reading this a good life#i love you#you are loved#and i hope you will find happiness in the small things#i’ve been struggling a lot recently but i always remind myself the good set in store for me and look up places in the city i’ll move to#and it motivates me a bunch so i hope u all find things to strive towards mwah
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#thegirljt#jt city girls#black girls of tumblr#black girl moodboard#black tumblr#pretty#black women#black girl tumblr#black woman appreciation#black is beautiful#black beauty#black fitspo
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Man whose definition of "monster" is extremely flexible.
#my art#baldurs gate 3#bg3#wyll ravengard#shadowheart#astarion ancunin#chessa#owlbear cub#fan art#first real post on this one instead of petitelappin#i drew these a while ago but never cleaned them up properly#i was mostly thinking about this as a concept when i (as wyll) released 7000 vampires into the city sewers and i was like#'we may have at some point stopped fitting the definition of monster hunter huh'#but also u know seeing the gur hunter later vowing to do what he can for his vampire daughters really got to wyll#thematically. im sure. anyway!#but lbr his crowning achievement in my playthrough was monster hunting so bad he ended up in a beautiful romance w his target instead
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ig credit: charmingwanders
#edinburgh#scotland#uk#united kingdom#autumn leaves#autumn colors#fallcore#fall aesthetic#dark academia#lightacademia#light academia#fall season#fall vibes#autumn#autumnal#autumn vibes#rainy city#rainy day#rainblr#beautiful places
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Fiona Apple in a suit of armor on a NYC subway photography by Joe McNally (1997)
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gouda city, netherlands
#netherlands#foggy#city#nature#sunset#aesthetic#adventure#photography#sky#travel#travelling#explore#aestethic#naturecore#beauty of nature#photoshoot
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Residential streets are too wide. Here's why. - City Beautiful
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do skully have pokemon?
Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.
(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)
#art#twisted wonderland#pokemon#poketwst#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#(sorry for leaving anon off for a while! i've gotten a rash of spam and i'm gonna wait it out a couple days before turning it back on)#also apologies for the rest of this not really being pokemon related#i don't have anything right now for part 4 of the event so i'm gonna use this space to go off about it#because. oh man.#a sad lack of the scullsman but a FEAST of everyone else#gotta love malleus and leona uniting in the common goal of hunting trey down for trying to game their whiny pettiness#(trey doesn't know what to do with someone he can't easily distract with cake)#also further confirmation that malleus WILL kill a small child and leona WILL point and laugh the whole time#also sebek's plans revolving around what he knows he's good at: screaming extremely loudly and hoisting nerds#and let us not forget what i consider to be the crowning jewel#which is jamil figuring out IMMEDIATELY where scully has taken his prisoners#only for everyone else to just. literally refuse to do anything about it.#jamil just standing there and going 'WE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE! WE CAN JUST! GO GET THEM!!!! WHYYY AREN'T WE GOING'#visibly losing his entire mind and it's beautiful#top 10 twst event moments honestly#also some delightful character consistency from jade being all#'actually my dicking around is a sign of my immense trust in your abilities to get things done :)'#'but also consider: there are currently two housewardens chasing a child'#'alternately angrily screaming poetry and begging them not to sue'#'and if you will pardon my city of flowers...there is no fucking way i'm missing that'#lock shock and barrel did not sign up for this. how did these idiots turn out to be somehow weirder than the three of them.#twisted wonderland must be a frightening place indeed
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#autumn season#autumn colors#dark autumn#fall colors#fall aesthetic#autumn aesthetic#dark aesthetic#autumn leaves#autumn weather#dark vibes#rain#autumn rain#raindrops#rainy autumn#beauty#nature#atmosphere#photography#inspiration#aesthetic#autumn moodboard#autumncore#fallcore#naturecore#nature aesthetic#autumn nature#fall season#fall weather#city aesthetic#rainy street
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#jt city girls#fashion#style#black girls#black tumblr#black beauty#black girl moodboard#female rap artist
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A 30- second video just giving you a place to start about what was probably the first Gayborhood in history, in a suburb of Berlin in the 1920s until they were harassed out of existence by the cops and later than Nazis. 
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