The Social Life of Dallas City Hall Plaza

Monday, June 6, 2011 - 6:00am PDT by Tim Halbur

Architecture, Community / Economic Development, Government / Politics, Land Use, Landscape Architecture, Social / Demographics, Texas

Filmmaker Aaron Garcia uses narration from William H. Whyte's classic The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces to highlight the failings of the I.M. Pei-designed Dallas City Hall Plaza.

The sampled narration, played over images of the empty plaza, begins with Whyte saying:

"When we looked at the center of the city, underuse was even more apparent. Most office building plazas were empty most of the time, even at lunchtime on a beautiful day. It wasn't meant to be that way."

Thanks to Zac Lytle

Full Story: Bringing Life back to Dallas Plazas

Published on Friday, June 3, 2011 in The Better Block: A living Charette

Tags:

Dallas, Better Block Project, Downtown Plazas

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