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I went to CSUN, and it would greatly benefit from a walkable village next to the campus. But I’m guessing the neighbors would be having none of that. This is what happens when you build a University in the middle of suburbia.

Calling for a great street here with no major plan or investment just seems like a political ploy to make the valley feel included. What’s needed, at a minimum, is a road diet and rezoning (but the residents would eat their council member alive if he/she tries that.)

As far as Garcetti’s list of Great Streets, Van Nuys has potential (between Victory and Oxnard.) It’s a densely populated street with a decent amount of foot traffic and sidewalk facing retail. Metro’s also planning for mass transit upgrades (probably BRT, unless another ambitious transit tax passes in 2016.)

This view wont be quite as bad once the AAA building is demo’d (the blank wall on the left side) and replaced by 150 Van Ness, which won’t abut 100 Van Ness as the current building does.

Hi-brow NY cableTV phenom Ugly George is cheerfully taking bribes now NOT to move his ‘Polish Penthouse’ Internet Studio to any one of the Nabes cited here. UG has learned his trade well, observing how Loudmouthed-Libs went 1000 miles down south ‘to help the Negroes fite 4 Civil Rites’ in the ‘60s but called 4 the moving vans when said Negroes moved into "their" Grand Concourse & Bed-Stuy ’turf’. They fled to the All-White Suburbs in flocks when a moving van of blacks showed up. Well, said UG is now ‘The Token Black’ & has his Black Bag open to NOT degrade any of these gentrifying ‘hoods’ by subjecting them to (gasp!) Sexy Young Women-who are worse than Blax!

Not to mention all the tourists rushing to the side of the van or bus said fancy car/famous person was spotted on to get a bunch of pictures with their disposable cameras.

Yes, if you’re a tourist in a TMZ van with the roof cut off, you get what you deserve.

@chlutz508:

While this project will never be feasible, the viability of mega projects does increase with increased land values. That’s simply because one can borrow more money against the value of the land and therefore afford to build more significant improvements on the land.

But what if Godzilla rises from the lake and levels the city? The Great Chicago Lizard of 2014? I feel like architectural exercises like this fall into the same category of reality as the proceeding question.

I enjoy those critiques of the elevated placement of the TV screen. I am imagining: either they wants the screen to appear as a piece of wall art; as though you could project your Van Gogh’s; or, alternately, perhaps they’re imagining it above the fireplace, the traditional focus of the Grand Room.

The other thing that strikes me is how many places there are for sitting; as if there’s nothing to do there but sit in this corner or that; this viewing window or that gaming table. It is a bit hotel like: Casa del Mar, Shutters or something.

It seems like most of the people making nasty comments don’t live in the AD. Maybe they live in really crappy constructed buildings in Studio City or Van Nuys where you can hear your neighbors cough and there is a Dominos pizza right down stairs and they want everyone to be just as miserable as they are. Those of us that actually live in the AD choose to live here because of the old where house buildings. And like other great cities, we want to maintain the esthetic. No one would complain that you can’t build a crappy 7 hundred apartment stucco complex in Paris. If we want people to come here and make LA a premier city, then we’ve got to try and preserve the character and beautiful architecture we do have.
No one would call in nimby to save the Pasadena Craftsman houses, or the old Victorians in Angelelino Height, so why are you doing it to us?
Not only that, but most of you wouldn’t even think of coming to any part of Downtown 10 years ago because it was "UNSAFE", now you complain because it’s downtown and we should build huge ugly buildings because you want it to be just as ugly as were you are. With your attitude someone would have knocked down the Pyramids in Egypt to build a highway, or a Sandals resort or something

Central Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadows, Clove Lake Park, etc. They can keep their three bushes and a few statues; I’ll take the parks listed above (and dozens of others) any day.