| "Sounding Spokane" City Snapshot, From a Planning Perspective |
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When architecture professor and author David Wang first arrived in Spokane in 1998, he was immediately struck by (in relative terms, he being an East-Coaster) the "regional" nature of the city - that is, how well-contained the place was within the expanses of forest, wilderness and farmlands that surround it. In his book "Sounding Spokane: Perspectives on the Built Environment of a Regional City," Dave assembled writings from a number of people - including Studio Cascade's Bill Grimes and Rick Hastings. Bill's chapter focuses on plans and implications for major expansion of the I-90 corridor through Spokane, while Rick's documents the historic relationship of Spokane to its river, in context with current plans to tighten that relationship through the creation of a "Gorge Park," first proposed by the Olmsted Brothers' landscape architecture firm in 1908. Click on the links below to view each chapter, or better yet, contact Eastern Washington University Press for your own copy of Dave Wang's thoughtful anthology. |
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In "Learning from I-90: The North - South Freeway's Implications for Urban Form," Bill Grimes considers effects of the proposed expansion of Spokane’s major highway arterial |
Rick Hastings reviews the historic relationship between Spokane and its remarkable river in "Spokane’s Falls and River Gorge: Evolving ties between a Community and its Wellspring."
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