Matt Drops The H wrote:Someone who commented on the Urbanophile's post on Citygarden said that a new staffer has been hired to make sure people don't swim in the fountains.
Now what was that whole thing about a space with no limits?
The Central Scrutinizer wrote:This is a sculpture garden, not a swimming pool for hoosiers.
I took my nephews there and they enjoyed cooling off and playing in the water. CS just feels better if he can put others down. Some kind of inadequacy thing I spose...stlmark wrote:The Central Scrutinizer wrote:This is a sculpture garden, not a swimming pool for hoosiers.
I need clarity. Are you deemed a hoosier only if you enter the water areas? Or, is a dry hoos just as hoos as the wet hoos? This elitist logic is fascinating to me.
stlmark wrote:The Central Scrutinizer wrote:This is a sculpture garden, not a swimming pool for hoosiers.
I need clarity. Are you deemed a hoosier only if you enter the water areas? Or, is a dry hoos just as hoos as the wet hoos? This elitist logic is fascinating to me.
lukethedrifter wrote:The hoosiers were out in force last night. We, er I mean they, had a going away party for a classmate who is moving back to New Mexico replete with picnic dinner and a dozen young kids in swim wear.
leeharveyawesome wrote:A very serious question. Can black people be hoosiers? Seriously I don't know.
leeharveyawesome wrote:Also, were the pond-like areas meant to be used as swmming pools or not?
bprop wrote:But to me there is just some inherent difference between coming down for an impromptu splash in the water jets, and making the sculpture garden into an all-day community pool and picnic area.
City Parks’ Grand Rebirth
Neal Peirce / Sep 04 2009
For Release Sunday, September 6, 2009
© 2009 Washington Post Writers Group
ST. LOUIS — City sponsors were so nervous about the unveiling of their new downtown park this summer that they arranged for an ice cream truck to park at the site on opening day, just to attract passerbys.
They needn’t have bothered. Citygarden, just west of the famed Gateway Arch on the Mississippi River, has drawn crowds of people–a cross-section of the city and region’s population–from its opening hour onward.
The attractions include a cornucopia of trees, contemporary sculpture, an 180-foot rectangular basin with a six-foot waterfall, a state-of-the-art “spray plaza,” a state-of-the-art LED video wall displaying art and movies, plus a high-quality cafe overlooking the combined attractions.
What this new park doesn’t have are any formal entrances or barriers to separate its manicured paths and quiet spaces from the surrounding city streets. Richard C.D. Fleming, president of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, suggests it’s an “intimate version of Millennium Park,” the Chicago lakeside extravaganza opened in 2004.
For St. Louis, for years so forsaken its downtown had the feel of a big and mostly empty living room, the public’s warm embrace of Citygarden caps a remarkable comeback decade which has seen the center city draw 5,000 residents and more than $4 billion in new investment.
