interesting that there is a strict height limit on new buildings and parisians are so averse to skyscrapers. the focus on this blog seems to be mainly on new luxury high rises. density should go hand in hand with affordability.

I really, really hope I'm wrong, but I see this lawsuit as a potential disaster waiting to happen. With the wrong judge, this could last for YEARS and may spur more lawsuits. Anyways, just wanted to b!tch about it. Now I have. Thanks.

- street widths: something that denver really has working against itself. so many of our streets are WAY too wide…especially in the city-close neighborhoods (highland is a great exception). Curtis Park is over-run with mega-wide streets (because they used to have trams running down the center) and it results in a very barren feel.

- density: this is really the key to everything…paris is dense so retail thrives, so people walk more because they dont need to drive to get most of their needs.

- building height: relative to street width, 3-5 stories on a narroow street feels fantastic

- street grids: with denver's intersecting grids it really gives us a great opportunity to surround downtown with building walls and a way to "close in" and further define downtown / uber-urban denver. Many of these could be filled by structures, monumnets, roundabouts, fountains and even small parks. unfortunately, most of these triangle pieces of land and dead-ends are simply asphalt, devoid of structures or full of homeless.

- mentality (and city council): did you hear anybody once complaining about "you stole my view and / or my sunlight?"

I totally agree with your comments of the mixture of monumental spaces and quaint streets…though I really do appreciate Denver's grid system and usage of straight roads…you never get lost!