[photo properties]    Gallery: Tinotopia Gallery    Album: Urban Planning    Album: In the Suburbs   7 of 41

Someone involved in the planning of this strip mall understood that people tended to like vistas -- in this case the main east-west 'road' through the strip mall -- that are terminated, particularly by public buildings. This is a library.

Unfortunately, the vista is terminated by the crooked orange 'DRUG FREE ZONE' sign in front of the library's jive-Palladian facade. The actual entrance to the library faces the parking lot on the side, but they've paid homage to the New Urbanist ideal with stairs and the obligatory wheelchair-access ramp.

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Gallery: Tinotopia Gallery    Album: Urban Planning    Album: In the Suburbs