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On the scale of the Beltline or Piedmont Park? I couldn't find it during my travels to Dallas.
Lots of beautiful parks and an expanding trail system that connects residents and visitors to neighborhoods, parks, shopping, restaurants, public transit and event venues.
Lots of beautiful parks and an expanding trail system that connects residents and visitors to neighborhoods, parks, shopping, restaurants, public transit and event venues.
Exactly, so those things pointed out in Atlanta are no different than what other cities provide.
Tell that to your boy walker1962 since he was the one who started this whole tit-for-tat with the dumb and unsubstantiated assertion about Atlanta's supposed lack of sports and cultural venues.
Tell that to your boy walker1962 since he was the one who started this whole tit-for-tat with the dumb and unsubstantiated assertion about Atlanta's supposed lack of sports and cultural venues.
Wrong. No matter how hard you try to diminish it, there is absolutely nothing comparable to the BeltLine in Dallas.
I think the Katy Trail has the potential to eventually be like the Belt Line in parts, but its not there yet. Its serving a different purpose at the moment.
I think we have to address the elephant in this room: Atlanta is just a lot prettier than Dallas or Houston. That makes it much easier for people to want to spend time outside. Thats not to say that Dallas and Houston dont have beauty to them. I always liked the prairie landscape that Dallas offered and actually prefer it to Houston's landscape. A bigger issue for Houston is that its an industrial city at heart. Almost all the Eastern half of our city is full of smoke stacks, factories, and refineries. Atlanta and Dallas dont have large swaths of the city that look like that. The industrial areas of the city are very close to the water which makes it hard to beautify or make Houston's beaches appealing to visit. There are still some really nice gems in Houston like Memorial, Hermann, and George Bush Parks and theres some nice forests to hike through too.
Exactly, so those things pointed out in Atlanta are no different than what other cities provide.
If that were true then it wouldn't b e so highly regarded and talked about in international urbanism circles if thats all it was.I hear nothing on the level of that about anything similar in Dallas
I think the Katy Trail has the potential to eventually be like the Belt Line in parts, but its not there yet. Its serving a different purpose at the moment.
I think we have to address the elephant in this room: Atlanta is just a lot prettier than Dallas or Houston. That makes it much easier for people to want to spend time outside. Thats not to say that Dallas and Houston dont have beauty to them. I always liked the prairie landscape that Dallas offered and actually prefer it to Houston's landscape. A bigger issue for Houston is that its an industrial city at heart. Almost all the Eastern half of our city is full of smoke stacks, factories, and refineries. Atlanta and Dallas dont have large swaths of the city that look like that. The industrial areas of the city are very close to the water which makes it hard to beautify or make Houston's beaches appealing to visit. There are still some really nice gems in Houston like Memorial, Hermann, and George Bush Parks and theres some nice forests to hike through too.
But its not like whats available around Atlanta.
Actually Atlanta does have a lot fo that old industrial factories,smoke stacks . Especially on the Westside Beltline.I was just there yesterday in an area overgrown with foliage right off the Beltline. No doubt the will probably be lofts or something in the near future.
The Westside of Atlanta is very old with a lot of historic warehouses . Especially Northwest Atlanta near the Chattahoochiie River which is finally seeing hige development as well.
Dallas problem is that its got such a lare flood plain areas so close in town
I think the Katy Trail has the potential to eventually be like the Belt Line in parts, but its not there yet. Its serving a different purpose at the moment.
I think we have to address the elephant in this room: Atlanta is just a lot prettier than Dallas or Houston. That makes it much easier for people to want to spend time outside. Thats not to say that Dallas and Houston dont have beauty to them. I always liked the prairie landscape that Dallas offered and actually prefer it to Houston's landscape. A bigger issue for Houston is that its an industrial city at heart. Almost all the Eastern half of our city is full of smoke stacks, factories, and refineries. Atlanta and Dallas dont have large swaths of the city that look like that. The industrial areas of the city are very close to the water which makes it hard to beautify or make Houston's beaches appealing to visit. There are still some really nice gems in Houston like Memorial, Hermann, and George Bush Parks and theres some nice forests to hike through too.
But its not like whats available around Atlanta.
Yeah, it's a totally different landscape. Our heavy industry was never as intense, and a lot of the historic brick industrial zones close to the core have already been repurposed. We used to have a Ford and two GM plants, but they're long gone. The oldest remaining heavy industry is the old Bell Bomber factory from WW2, in Marietta. It's now Lockheed-Martin's C-130 plant.
We really do appreciate the landscape and topography here, it's very much taken advantage of.
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