Skyways: Love them or hate them?
On Tuesday, I offered a post about skyways, inspired by Jay Walljasper's column about the topic. Abysmal Chick, a Minneapolis reader, has responded, saying she loves the slender tubes that link our downtown buildings. What do you think? Fill out the survey on the right hand column of this page or add your thoughts to what I think could be a great debate. BTW, I'm inclined to agree with Abysmal Chick ... it's hard to image living without them in our frigid little city. (Photo courtesy of Jim Winstead, Jr. via Flickr.)
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Here's a quote from a disseration length article from The Rake on
our Skyways...
http://www.rakemag.com/reporting/features/people-skyway
“One writer from out of town called the skyways ‘gerbil trails,’” laughs Todd Klingel, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce...."
While they do provide shelter from the weather and freedom from stop lights...the experience of encountering a building via a Skyway is entirely different from
encountering a building from the
street...
via Skyway you get to see a section of the interior and experience intense retail manipulation of that experience...esp at Macys...
via Skyway you just keep moving through fairly nondescript space without observing much about the the building as you can from the street...
Of course Skyway fed businesses
probably have to be creative to
get travellers to stop...
Navigating can be an adventure or intimidating...the maps are good
mabe Peter Bruce designed those?
He's certainly got a unique and interesting job/obsession.
It can be a challenge to get somewhere specific...not a great
map interpreter so my internal GPS gets flummoxed with no external points of reference, so I often bail and return to the street...
The mnscraper folks debated this
issue too and they mention yet
another article...
http://www.minnescraper.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1058
P.S. here's Peter Bruce's website:
http://www.pedestrianstudies.com/
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