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I'm not sure Cupertino is a good example, because until the 1960s it was all orchards and fields, and the entire town was built in blocks of subdivisions like y
by niftich 8y ago
I'm not sure Cupertino is a good example, because until the 1960s it was all orchards and fields, and the entire town was built in blocks of subdivisions like your usual checkerboard suburb like Henderson or Chandler. Sunnyvale was the closest real town, with a real main street, a train station, and businesses.
Anyone can build 'fake' downtowns. They sort of work too. That's not the issue here at all, though. Cupertino had no commercial core that was left to decline.
- ShabbosGoy 8y ago> Cupertino had no commercial core that was left to decline. You need only look to Vallco to see what an abandoned mall is like. It’s really dystopian in a way.
- JKCalhoun 8y agoI don't know, seems like the coming of malls in general was dystopian.
- DrScump 8y agoYou could argue that Cupertino has a long, narrow "downtown": Stevens Creek Boulevard between the new Main Street complex and the Oaks. One limiting factor is that political downtown (City Hall and the library) is off on its own in what was traditionally a business office complex neighborhood, with no nearby commerce per se. The Orchard shopping center at Bollinger and Blaney was, unsurprisingly, an orchard I played in as a kid.