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Re: Just got back from GATS...
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Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:37:37 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Amy Hughes writes:
> In lugnet.org.us.michlug, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > the edges of the roadplates end up being wasted space, because the
> > building is built in the middle of another baseplate. Some sort of
> > modular approach might well clear that up, if you knew that it was
> > YOUR roadway you could build out onto it
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> I'm not so sure crowding our buildings together is a good idea, for two
> reasons...
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> 1) Our downtown is more like a modern, built-for-cars "edge city", e.g.
> Southfield, rather than a classic, built-for-people downtown, e.g. Ann Arbor.
With you on that...
> 2) The space between buildings allows people to see the buildings that aren't
> on the edge of the display.
Not with you on that one. Narrower would be better.. 3 tables is too deep.
It was worse on the railyard side but even on the city side there were some
impacts...
> I'd like to have a classic downtown, though. Many cities now have two centers -
> the classic downtown area, and the edge city area, with chain restaurants,
> malls, strip malls, sprawl-marts and office buildings.
I think the proposal on taking into account that you have road baseplates as
part of your module means just that you can get a bit more efficient with
use of paving when laying out your chain restaurants etc, not that you
wouldn't have some space between each one. Peter's Restaurant Row really did
evoke the sort of one chain after another you see in edge cities very nicely.
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| (...) Wow. This is like some kind of record number of postings for me. I definitely agree with Scott on the combo approach (and I think Larry's saying the same thing)--for some areas, like my restaurants, closing them in makes a lot of sense. For (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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