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"Unfortunately, we've made a lot of bad choices, and a lot of it has to do with catering to the automobile almost exclusively," says [James Howard Kunstler] in a phone interview. "Most cities are pretty bad. Winnipeg's just done a particularly good job of it."
"I'm sure he's never been to St. Boniface," says Dan Vandal, St. Boniface councillor and chair of the Plan Winnipeg steering committee established in 1999. "And we have a national historic site downtown (The Forks), which he obviously didn't see either." "He posted such harsh flames, but I got to know that's his style. I quite like the guy," says [Ian Wight]. "He brings attention to good purposes. And there's at least a grain of truth to what he's saying."See the full content of this document
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Room for Improvement
Disparaging views of Winnipeg as a vast parking lot hold a grain of truth, but planners and architects have hope
sitelines / By Ian TizzardLAST month on his website, James Howard Kunstler called Winnipeg "an entire city built to the specifications of a 7-Eleven shop, with about as ...See the full content of this document
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