Design
If Other Cities Are Demolishing Skywalks, Why Does Cleveland Want a New One?
The fight against outmoded 20th-century infrastructure.
Skywalk: the word conjures up a dusty Jetsons-era vision of the city of the future, one in which people stream through a metropolis in plastic tubes and bubbles, all without ever coming into contact with something as old-fashioned as a sidewalk.
In the last decades of the 20th century, many American cities built skywalks in a desperate attempt to seem modern, hoping to create a sanitized urban experience that would compete with the sanitized suburban experience of indoor malls.