Reply To: Another Failed Landscape – When Ideology Trumps User Needs

[Roland Beinert]

Is it really the design of a park that makes it active? I think there are a lot of well-designed parks that are simply too large to be active all the time, and/or they are in the wrong location. This park is 20 acres. It would take a lot of people to make it seem active. Its in the civic center of Malibu, which probably means there are a few museums surrounding it, but very few residences or other uses. Without a variety of uses, the neighborhood surrounding the park is probably fairly inactive for most of the day. If the neighborhood isn’t active, its not really fair to expect the park to be active.