LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 4.0

[Illithid Dude]

Originally Posted by RuFFy

The more I think about it the more I become convinced that monuments, statues or even fountains are not what bring people to urban parks. What brings people to urban parks is a healthy amount of pedestrian traffic. As the pictures above make obvious, no monument is going to drive pedestrian traffic. Pershing Square needs to become a place where people go to escape the heavy pedestrian traffic around it. Until that's there nobody is really going to go there and there won't be people stopping by the park either. When that pedestrian flow arrives, I'd like Pershing Square to be just a lawn, some benches, some trees (think Bryant Park) and a vendor or two. A water feature would be nice, but not completely necessary. My preference is that Pershing Square become as someone mentioned before, a destination, where people reference Pershing Square because it's the place to be. Ideally, I'd like that place to be the central city's high end boutique square.

I'd like it to look EXACTLY as it did circa 1935, cherub fountain and everything. It was a perfectly nice park then, and if done the same it would be a perfectly nice park now. And for gods sake pave over the parking-lot entryways! We have enough parking int the area as it is.