Comments on: Gardens “Buzz” http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2012/07/16/gardens-buzz/ The Oklahoman's Steve Lackmeyer covers downtown OKC brick by brick. Thu, 16 May 2013 02:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Nick Roberts http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2012/07/16/gardens-buzz/comment-page-1/#comment-43334 Nick Roberts Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:07:09 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=8051#comment-43334 I don’t know what the NYT is smoking, though. The modern highly-programmed park, while I absolutely concede pays homage to Olmstead parks like Central Park, has its modern root in Chicago. There, Millennium Park is the example every urban center is trying to recreate. Millennium Park has become the most iconic urban environment of this century.

NYC’s High Line is up there too, though.

]]> By: jen http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2012/07/16/gardens-buzz/comment-page-1/#comment-43333 jen Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:01:49 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=8051#comment-43333 I love the theory of the tipping point first explained to me via the work of Gladwell. It never gets old, probably because it comes from epidemiology. Interesting, — the literal translation of the word is “the study of what is upon the people.” In the book, the little things count a lot; those things that collectively create the boiling point. I think about this a lot. I think we are close, too, but I think we need some more bold innovation and some more fearless leadership on the part of our citizenry. The elected, appointed, identified, volunteered and hired continue to their part, but we need the non versions of all these to show up in bigger ways and pursue their brilliant ideas unapologetically. …And, we need to support them.

]]> By: Erick http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2012/07/16/gardens-buzz/comment-page-1/#comment-43321 Erick Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:11:37 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=8051#comment-43321 Commenter from Kansas City from the NYT article:

“Completely, enthusiastically agree about Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City. I had the great joy, mystical rejuvenation in those gardens a month ago. Alongside the basketball finals, a few blocks away, a good crowd watched the 25th Anniversary of the Graceland Tour right next to those gardens. Behind the stage, a 70 story tower, lit beautifully in digital magic. The next day, 10 miles from downtown, I rode my bike on a loop around a precious lake, an oasis in that dry climate.

I say that, and I’m not from Oklahoma City. Good things are happening here in Kansas City, but not yet on that scale. Not yet, but a lot of people are working on it.”

]]> By: Dan Lovejoy http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/2012/07/16/gardens-buzz/comment-page-1/#comment-43319 Dan Lovejoy Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:21:32 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okccentral/?p=8051#comment-43319 Ha! Myriad Gardens. Wait a couple years and look a few blocks south.

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