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My visit to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex began on November 5, 2008 about 15 hours after Barack Obama had been declared President-Elect and Texas had been affirmed as\u00a0the only Electoral College-rich state in which the winds of change had not blown.\u00a0 I had wondered on the airplane down if Texans would have strange looks of fear in their eyes or be talking endlessly about how the “liberal media” got Obama elected.\u00a0 However, in the six days I spent in Texas I only ever heard a handful of people mention the election and most opinions were of shrugging the shoulders-type indifference.\u00a0 Still, I had a minor chuckle when I landed at DFW<\/a> (the world’s third busiest by aircraft movements) and was greeted to the Lone Star State by the airport’s address system inviting travellers to “…day after\u00a0election prayers in the airport’s chapel.”\u00a0 I wondered if I would have heard this address had the returns been different?\u00a0 Were certain travellers who found themselves connecting in DFW running to the chapel to pray a little harder during their layovers?\u00a0 While it can be easy to make generalizations about this part of the world, it is sometimes\u00a0hard not to when greeted in such a way.<\/p>\n DFW is located right in the middle of the Dallas-Forth Worth region, which is commonly referred to as the “Metroplex<\/a>.”\u00a0 It is the largest metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States with a combined population of 6.3 million and is actually larger in area than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.\u00a0 The Metroplex is home to many distinctions that are not commonly known until one researches the place.\u00a0 For instance, there are more head-offices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex than anywhere else in the United States, including New York City.\u00a0\u00a0There is also more per capita retail in the Metroplex than almost anywhere else on earth.\u00a0 These distinctions could easily leave one thinking that they are entering a top-tier alpha city of world-class shopping and global business acumen.\u00a0 Yet, Dallas, and by extension the Metroplex, do not reveal itself as such a place.\u00a0 Not to downplay these distinctions, but to genuinely wonder how a region this successful also manages to mostly fail at creating the urban context and excitement that many other regions of similar (or much lesser) distinctions so easily make.<\/p>\n The drive from DFW to downtown Dallas is a familiar one for most North Americans.\u00a0 You pick up your rental car at the airport’s “Rental Car Center” (yes, they have a whole terminal for rental cars) and hit the highway toward the gleaming towers of Dallas’ CBD.\u00a0 Along the way is a typical assortment of grand highway interchanges, power centres and a mostly brown, featureless and flat landscape that allows for all the Metroplex’s sub-centres to peak into the horizon in a very GTA<\/a>-like way.\u00a0 Also like Greater Toronto, the footprint of the Metroplex is massive and seems to regain steam every time you think it may be about to putter-out.\u00a0 Cities such as Arlington, Irving, Plano and Richardson add to what is already a widely developed and polynucleated parcel of north Texas.\u00a0 So there is definitely a familiarity in the view, but also subtle differences as the highways\u00a0are a little bigger, the shopping\u00a0a little more ubiquitous and the development (even in the downtowns of these sub-centres) more ardently single-use.\u00a0 Still, this is suburban Dallas that I’m hurtling through and it is those approaching\u00a0towers of downtown Dallas that are making me want to truly explore the heart of this rambling region.<\/p>\n Downtown Dallas<\/strong><\/p>\n Downtown Dallas is located in the geographic centre of the city and is bounded by a\u00a0freeway loop that surrounds, but does not quite\u00a0pierce it.\u00a0 It is also a lot of things that downtown Toronto is not, particularly quiet.\u00a0 So quiet in fact that it is hard to believe you are standing in the middle of one of the larger CBDs in the USA.\u00a0 Apparently over 130,000 people work in the impressive assortment of office towers, but you would be hard pressed to find even a thousand of them on the streets.\u00a0 Curiously, there is no extensive +15<\/a> system nor is there any sort of concourse-type P.A.T.H.<\/a> system diverting people\u00a0away from the sidewalks.\u00a0\u00a0It simply appears that most people that work in the downtown do not do anything else besides “work in the downtown.”\u00a0 Sort of a vertical office park where any hustling and bustling is\u00a0done high up in\u00a0boardrooms and not down on the street.<\/p>\n While the city has been encouraging residential development downtown, there is little sign of it in the core, although there is some on the periphery.\u00a0 Downtown also boasts a fair number of hotels, but precious\u00a0little retail with the exception of the very first Nieman Marcus<\/a> store.\u00a0\u00a0All other retail in\u00a0downtown Dallas tends to be\u00a0coffee shops and restaurants catering to the 9-5 and\/or tourist crowds.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, I took note that many of these establishments did not even stay open for the evening rush hour, but instead closed at 3:00 pm daily.\u00a0 The pin-drop quietness of the\u00a0downtown was really quite a mystery\u00a0considering the\u00a0city is graced with a fair number of handsome buildings,\u00a0decent and wide\u00a0sidewalks, a commitment to public art, clean streets, some good parks and a general feeling of being\u00a0safe.<\/p>\n Some parts of downtown Dallas\u00a0even reminded me of New York, except for the total\u00a0and complete lack of people.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Union Station<\/strong><\/p>\n Dallas’ Union Station, like Toronto’s, is the hub of their transit system.\u00a0 It offers DART<\/a> (light rail), AMTRAK<\/a> (intercity) and Trinity Railway Express<\/a> (commuter rail to Fort Worth) services.\u00a0 Constructed in 1916 as Dallas Union Terminal,\u00a0it was built with the intent of making Dallas a premiere transportation centre of the southwest.\u00a0 While Dallas’ post-war growth patterns prevented it from being the terminal it was meant to be, it remains a fairly attractive and workable building for the current transit needs of the city.<\/p>\n The front lawn of Union Station is not nearly as busy as some of the continent’s other great “Union Stations.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Inside Union Station is honestly quite depressing…and super empty.\u00a0 This was captured on a Wednesday afternoon!<\/p>\n Dealey Plaza<\/strong><\/p>\n Dealey Plaza sits on the north-west edge of Downtown Dallas and looks much like it did in the notorious Zapruder film<\/a>.\u00a0 Walking through the plaza gave me the sense that I had been there before even prior to checking my GPS to see if I was indeed in the infamous plaza.\u00a0 There has been very little development in this parcel of downtown and it basically sits as a living museum to November 22, 1963.<\/p>\n The Texas School Book Depository (now the Dallas County Administration Building) is where it is believed that Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F. Kennedy from a 6th floor window. It now also houses the excellent Sixth Floor Museum<\/a> (dedicated to the life of J.F.K., his assassination and the aftermath).<\/p>\n Elm Street runs through Dealey Plaza and is one of the downtown’s major arteries taking vehicles in and out of the CBD to and from the freeways.\u00a0 An “X” marks the spot where Kennedy was fatally shot on Elm Street.\u00a0 Ironically, many tourists dodge traffic and risk their own lives getting their picture taken next to the “X” where Kennedy lost his.<\/p>\n One could call Dallas an unfortunate victim of one man’s (or possibly more?<\/a>) craziness a generation ago, but unfortunately for Dallas its political climate during the early 1960s did not help it recover quickly in the minds of many after the tragedy.\u00a0 Dallas had always been a fairly conservative town and was suspicious at best, horrified at worst, by the themes of Kennedy’s Administration, particularly on Civil Rights.\u00a0 To put it bluntly, if Kennedy were to be assassinated, some would have easily picked Dallas as the city for it to happen and it therefore left it with a sense of blame that took many years to overcome.\u00a0 This guilt, and subsequent reinvention, is central to understanding the modern Dallas though.<\/p>\n Arts District<\/strong><\/p>\n Part of Dallas’ generation-long reinvention would be a commitment to public arts, perhaps best exemplified in their Arts District.<\/p>\n The Dallas Arts District takes up a large portion of the northern part of the CBD and is home to the majority of the city’s major performing arts and cultural venues.\u00a0 Despite the city’s real, or imagined, “cowboy motif” Dallas takes the arts very serious and has built an impressive number of facilities in what is basically a created precinct.\u00a0 I use the term “created” as that is what this is; a single-use zone of cultural facilities with no immediate neighbourhood incubating the district.\u00a0 Not to say that Dallas does not have artistic communities further out, just that the Arts District itself feels more like a construct for tourists to easily see all the institutions in an afternoon, than any sort of\u00a0 true artistic neighbourhood that reveals itself more over time.<\/p>\n The Dallas Museum of Art sits in the middle of the Arts District, and is surrounded by other cultural attractions, including the Nasher Sculpture Center<\/a>, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center<\/a>, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art<\/a>, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art<\/a> and the under-construction Dallas Center for the Performing Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n While one can only applaud Dallas for bringing such a wide-array of culture to north Texas, the Arts District unfortunately does not pass the test of an urbanist very well.\u00a0 While the individual galleries, museums and performance spaces may be great, one is still left with a sense of never having found the Dallas arts scene.<\/p>\n West-End Historic District<\/strong><\/p>\n From the Arts District I headed west to what the tourist maps call the West End Historic District<\/a>.\u00a0 Just to make sure I was heading in the right direction, I asked in a local Starbuck’s only to have all the employees shrug at me and say they had never heard of such a place.\u00a0 Regardless, I trusted my senses and continued five minutes down the street to find it.<\/p>\n This district is pretty much the only area downtown that has any significant residential usage.\u00a0 It includes a variety of old warehouse buildings (and some newer brick buildings) that have been adapted for restaurants, shops and living quarters.\u00a0 Sadly, the area seems to be in a bit of a decline despite the heritage preservation and the more classically urban streets.\u00a0 Even though there are clearly people who live in this neighbourhood, all the businesses are mostly higher-end “surf and turf”-type restaurants that cater more to whatever convention is in town than in providing the locals with somewhere to easily buy their essentials.<\/p>\n The West End Marketplace was an opportunity for local vendors to sell their wares, but unfortunately closed its doors in 2006 and now sits empty, although I got a kick out of the never-changed early 1990s font.\u00a0 While there is probably an opportunity for Dallas to re-imagine this space as some sort of Distillery District<\/a>-type neighbourhood, I never got the sense that rejuvenation was on the radar.<\/p>\n Municipal Plaza<\/strong><\/p>\n Dallas City Hall was designed by noted architect I.M. Pei<\/a> and features an angular inverted pyramid design that makes it one of the city’s more iconic buildings.\u00a0 It sits in the middle of a concrete municipal plaza which in many ways has a Nathan Phillips Square feel to it. This is not really surprising if one considers the years in which Dallas “came of age” were only perhaps a decade after Toronto’s.<\/p>\n Surprisingly, or perhaps not so, the Dallas Municipal Plaza also graces a Henry Moore<\/a> sculpture that is simply titled “The Dallas Piece.”\u00a0 It was fenced off for no apparent reason which was particularly odd as the square was completely empty every time I walked by.\u00a0 It seemed like the type of piece that children would want to climb (similar to the AGO’s “Two Large Forms”<\/a>) and that perhaps it had been fenced off for fear of litigation?<\/p>\n Uptown<\/strong><\/p>\n A quick walk (or historic streetcar ride<\/a>) over the Woodall Rogers Freeway begins a part of Dallas stuck between downtown and suburbia that is arguably more urban than the downtown itself.\u00a0 Not that “Uptown” is perfect by any means, but it does give one a glimpse of what might be possible in sunbelt cities when a bit of creativity, effort and\u00a0planning, are used to improve the public realm, if even slightly.<\/p>\n Uptown immediately feels like a neighbourhood.\u00a0 It may be trendy and catering, in general, to more moneyed Dallasites, but it mostly works in the sense that you can walk around, see other people, peruse local retail and do some of those things you would simply expect to be able to do in a region of this size and importance.\u00a0 It is also home to the city’s gay village, many of the city’s bars and clubs and the majority of recent condo construction.\u00a0 A comparable GTA neighbourhood might be the urban-suburban hybridness of Port Credit.<\/p>\n Dallas’ condos do not seem to have any local vernacular and instead borrow heavily from historicist styles.\u00a0 For example, I was very bemused by this McKinney Avenue condo’s French chateau motif…<\/p>\n In the middle of Uptown sits the West Village<\/a> which is a residential and retail “new-urbanism”<\/a> development built in 2001 and works as well as one could hope when building a neighbourhood from scratch.\u00a0 The architecture may be gimmicky, with each block done in a different historical style, but indeed this is one part of Dallas with a noticeable sense of place, but still relatively friendly to the automobile.\u00a0 Perhaps this form of new-urbanism is the best that can be hoped for\u00a0sunbelt cities?<\/p>\n DART<\/strong><\/p>\n Transit and transit-oriented developments are mostly afterthoughts in Dallas, but DART<\/a> does seem to represent the start of changing that.\u00a0 In particular, the almost 80 kilometres of LRT makes DART one of the larger light rail operators on the continent.\u00a0 Moreover, openings of the Green and Orange Lines by 2013 will almost double DART’s light rail coverage to 145 kilometres.<\/p>\n While it may take a generation to get the average Dallasite excited by the idea of transit everywhere, DART should at least be admired for connecting some obvious dots on the map (Union Station, Uptown, Fair Park, Plano, Richardson, Medical Center, etc.)\u00a0 Light rail also seems perfectly suited to a city of this size and character.\u00a0 I also found it safe, easy-to-use and logical.\u00a0 The headways may be far greater than we are used to in Toronto (especially on the bus services), but in a post-war city in this part of the world it could probably be a lot worse.<\/p>\n Considering that most of Dallas’ LRT lines run on former rail corridors and\/or on elevated viaducts it does not allow for a good comparison to the TTC’s coming Transit City<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, the only place where DART operates on local roads is in the downtown, however it is exclusively done by creating full mode-separated right-of-ways and transit malls (something that the City of Toronto will not consider on our legacy streetcar lines).\u00a0 Perhaps though, the TTC could look at the stop-spacing on DART’s LRT lines as one area that Dallas seems to have got right.<\/p>\n Fair Park<\/strong><\/p>\n About a ten minute drive south-east of downtown sits Fair Park.\u00a0 This Exhibition Place<\/a>-like complex is a registered National Historic Landmark and was originally constructed to house the Texas Centennial Exposition<\/a> in 1936, but is now best known as the home of the State Fair of Texas<\/a> which is America’s largest.\u00a0 The park boasts a significant number of art deco structures and is home to the famed Cotton Bowl Stadium<\/a>, which beginning next year will no longer be hosting the Cotton Bowl<\/a> when it moves to the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium<\/a> under construction in suburban Arlington, TX.<\/p>\n Fair Park is also home to many of Dallas’ boutique museums, including The Museum of the American Railroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n Walking through Fair Park on a quiet November afternoon does not necessarily give one an accurate impression of what this space is transformed into for a few key weeks each year, but it does let one into the psyche of Dallas just a bit.\u00a0 Sayings such as “everything is bigger in Texas” and “The Big D” actually have their beginnings on these grounds in reference to Dallas’ grandiose, and perhaps over-built, staging of the Centennial Exposition.\u00a0 It could probably be argued that if Expo 67<\/a> were Canada’s “coming out party,” than the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition was Texas’ as it still resonates in the state’s way-of-life.\u00a0 Fair Park’s depression-era, but optimistic legacy carries to this day as a starting point of the modern Texas character.\u00a0 It exudes confidence, individualism and flair.<\/p>\n While in Dallas it can be easy to forget that the Metroplex offers another large city just a 45-minute jaunt down the I-30<\/a>.\u00a0 While I only spent a day in Fort Worth it certainly merits the drive (or TRE<\/a> train ride), if not only to appreciate the girth of this massive region, but also to discover another city that is very different than Dallas, but interesting in its own right.\u00a0 It is often said that “Dallas is where the east ends and Forth Worth is where the west begins” and that expression seemed apt to describe my experience.<\/p>\n Perhaps even more surprising than the fact that Dallas takes its arts seriously, is the fact that Fort Worth, arguably, takes them more so.\u00a0 America’s “Cowtown” is home to a number of outstanding museums including the Kimbell<\/a>, Modern<\/a> and Amon Carter<\/a> which are required “architourism” even for those that may not be particularly interested in their collections.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Fort Worth’s “Cultural District” is located about five kilometres west of downtown on the sprawling, but attractive grounds of the University of North Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many consider The Kimbell Art Museum to be one of Louis Khan’s<\/a> greatest buildings…<\/p>\n A short drive north of downtown is the most famous part of Fort Worth – The Stock Yards National Historic District<\/a>.\u00a0 While much of it is geared toward the tourist set it does exude a sort of mythical American West quality that no number of tourists are able to change.\u00a0 There is also a quiet confidence about Forth Worth, especially in this district, that is perhaps missing in the showmanship of Dallas.\u00a0 While the district itself has good urban bones, it sadly ends quite quickly if one meanders a few minutes in any which direction.<\/p>\n The Stock Yards is also home to Billy Bob’s Texas – The World’s Biggest Honky Tonk<\/a> which is a giant playground of Country & Western music stages, dance floors, billiard tables, arcade games and even a small rodeo.\u00a0 While it too may be geared toward tourists I really must admit to feeling quite removed from Dallas, and the entire east coast, while enjoying\u00a0a few beers here.\u00a0 In a sense, it was the Texas that all of us have somewhere in our minds.<\/p>\n Dallas vs. “Dallas”<\/strong><\/p>\n Much like President Kennedy’s assassination, Dallas had a second shooting it could not have planned or predicted.\u00a0 This one involved the shooting of the fictional “J.R. Ewing”<\/a> and the subsequent rise of Dallas<\/em> as a generation-defining show of enormous global popularity.\u00a0 To this day, Dallas<\/em> holds the record for being translated and dubbed into more languages than any other show and has aired in over 90 countries.\u00a0 The show’s popular season-ending cliff-hangers are still some of the most popular episodes in television history and set in people’s minds a version of Dallas that is different than the reality.<\/p>\n Southfork Ranch<\/a>, the home of the fictional Ewing family, is about a 40 minute drive north of downtown Dallas in Parker, TX.\u00a0 To this day, it is one of the state’s largest tourist attractions and features mansion tours, shopping, the Miss Ellie Deli<\/em>, the Dallas Legends<\/em> Museum<\/em> and a variety of conference and banquet facilities.\u00a0 Mail addressed to “Sue Ellen,” “J.R.,” “Bobby” and “Pam” still arrives daily from far corners of the world.\u00a0 While the producers set the ranch somewhere in exurban Dallas, it is now situated within Dallas’ suburbs as the region has sprawled.\u00a0 Most reactions to seeing the ranch house in person involve comments about “how small it is” compared to “how they made it look on television.”\u00a0 Which perhaps works well as a metaphor for how the TV Dallas<\/em> made the real Dallas look.<\/p>\n Dallas is fairly unique in being a city that had itself defined by a TV show whether it wanted to be or not.\u00a0 The show may have featured two rich families feuding over love and power, but it also showcased a city of bustling and busy streets where people had power lunches in outdoor office plazas, shopped at big downtown department stores, lived high-up in ritzy downtown condos and drank bourbon & branches in sky-high bars atop gleaming skyscrapers.\u00a0 In a sense, the show made Dallas look like a New York City of the 1980s even though the reality of the place probably has more in common with a city like Calgary.<\/p>\n While Dallas’<\/em> view of Dallas may not exactly be truthful it did help to reposition the city in the minds of not only its citizens, but of the global community.\u00a0 It represents when people started to not automatically equate the city with JFK’s assassination and also when a cheeky sort of confidence started rising as the sunbelt’s population concurrently grew.\u00a0 While most fans of the show will never likely go to Dallas, it is interesting that the city exists in their minds in ways quite different from reality.\u00a0 Still, it’s hard not to be a bit disappointed, even by a soap opera, upon the realization that even the urbanity of Dallas<\/em> was as imagined as Bobby Ewing’s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dallas Round-Up <\/strong><\/p>\n In a period of financial collapse and moribund global economies, which some blame on the unsustainable rise of the sunbelt, Dallas is at a curious point in its history.\u00a0 It has had the distinction of being part of the fastest growing region in the United States for many of the past 20 years and could easily lead one to wonder how such a sprawly place of far flung suburbs, sub-prime mortgages and over-developed retail will weather as the recession deepens.\u00a0 It would also be fair to inquire if it has perhaps reached its peak and has begun a slow, but steady, decline as people’s priorities change and adapt to new realities and different ways of living.<\/p>\n In fairness though, Dallas has also shown resiliency in the past and likely will again.\u00a0 It has also made some baby steps in the right direction with regard to public transport and urban design that could, and likely will, be intensified as we enter a new era of public infrastructure spending.<\/p>\n Regardless of whether Dallas, and its surrounding Metroplex, is “your type” of city it should be viewed as a near perfect example of how we built the post-war modern city in North America.\u00a0 No, it is not a urbanist’s paradise, but it does perfectly match the dominant North American culture in those same years.\u00a0 Yes, a sprawly and suburban place where everyone’s middle-class desire to have a home is met, but also one containing hints of urbanity, culture and where some recent developments show a new paradigm slowly revealing itself.<\/p>\n In a way, meandering through the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is a journey through the hopes, imagination and failures of a generation of Americans.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3661\/3349871947_275890ce18.jpg?v=0\" "\\"The")
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