Seattle Going Global
Seattle seems to be on its ways to becoming a successful world city, according to a private consultant's list of the global trends that make cities great.
"Business leaders gained a glimpse of those trends -- economist-inspired insights into how global forces are already affecting downtown Seattle -- on Thursday morning at a State of Downtown economic forum.
Economists and researchers at Denver consulting firm Progressive Urban Management Associates have identified 10 global trends that affect downtown cores. Economist and company president Brad Segal presented the findings Thursday, along with data specific to Seattle."
Among the points:
"The cities of the future will be teeming with well-educated young women. They increasingly outnumber men in college enrollment and will form a majority of the work force by 2010. Seattle ranks fifth nationally in the number of college-educated young women."
"Cities will appeal by giving those women fun things to do. "Women tend to recreate more than men," Segal said."
"The cities with an advantage will be ones with strong public transportation systems. Transportation is Seattle's biggest vulnerability, Segal said."
"For Seattle commuters, an average annual delay of 12 hours in 1982 increased to 45 hours in 2005."
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Seattle incompetence...
Seattle is on a course of ruin. This article is pure propaganda to entice investors with visions of high-rise living arrangements. The rest of the Seattle metropolitian area, far more economically dysfunctional than downtown Seattle, is neglected. Downtown Seattle is overbuilt, the suburbs underbuilt.
Even the saucy reference to Seattle being a woman's playground indicates a growth in the brothel industry, a sure sign of decadence. The only thing feminine about Seattle is its shopping venues. It's public spaces are miserably neglected and/or arranged to be more a spectacle, nature as an art form, probably to encourage shopping rather than relaxing.
Seattle expanded Seatac International, adding a runway at enormous cost and environmental impact, and will next year begin operating a light rail line from there to downtown Seattle, inexplicably bypassing a critically important suburban commercial/industrial district, Southcenter, reportedly for tourists to shave 4 minutes off their trip time, but just as likely to prevent them from making side trips there rather than downtown. Thus, the light rail line subtracted tens of thousands of local riders daily in order to serve business class tourism exclusively. Repairing this huge mistake via a spur line through Southcenter is politically verbotten, stricken from last November's Prop 1 measure to expand light rail.
Seattle is a military town, currently investing in oil acquisition abroad. Seattle is where the nation's most incompetent engineers, civil and social, go to die.