“Ann Arbor doesn’t need cold
“Ann Arbor doesn’t need cold urban canyons,” runs a headline on the letters page of the News. Before reading the letter, Ann Arbor Sucks is already sure that cold urban canyons, whatever they are, are exactly what Ann Arbor needs. They sound like they would involve meticulously choreographed postapocalyptic fight scenes.
The letter writer is, however, referring to the spaces created by buildings recently proposed by some planners. These buildings would reach a whopping 30 stories. She proposes, instead, the open-air mall idea already discredited in this weblog. (By “discredited”, we mean “subjected to a half-hearted but meanspirited swipe.”)
“If we wanted to live in Chicago or San Antonio or Detroit, we would,” the letter concludes.