A Waterfront Park design-o-rama

Crosscut tells us about James Corner's upcoming presentation about the glimmer of his design for Seattle Central's Waterfront Park. My comments at Crosscut:

1. It's misleading to attribute the Highline Park to Corner. That project was fully-formed when his firm won a design competition and he had nothing to do with the underlying. momentous and and very visionary political question: Should the Highline be saved as a public park?

2. Far more important influence will be Corner's need to do something to justify his leadership in "Landscape Urbanism." There's not much substance in it, to my view, but as a leader, Corner will feel compelled to do something to illustrate his so-called theory.

 3. The Waterfront park planning effort is eyewash to gin up political support for the Tunnel. Since the Tunnel will not be built, don't get your hopes up about any new park.