Smart City Memphis

We are often blind to our own environment because of our assumptions, framed by media, insular thinking and our own prejudices. Smart City Consulting's blog – named one of the most intriguing in the U.S. by Pew Partnership for Civic Change – hopes to show how Memphis really is and could be through alternative questions, fresh approaches and new ideas. We hope to open your eyes - and your ears - to a new way of thinking about Memphis. Send ideas and emails to tjones@smartcityconsulting.com.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Walking In Memphis (The North Riverside Version)

In response to our post earlier this week about the uninviting welcome that greets visitors to Memphis from the Riverside exit off I-40, a reader sent his photographic take on that stretch of grim landscape.

He emailed: "Check out the walk that tourists have from the welcome center to Mud Island, where many of them go. It starts with a view of a sea of parking lots, then uglier than sin garages and a Mud Island park in need of some tender loving care, from the streaked pylons holding up the tram to the ugly tin foil, etc., that greets visitors from the west. The whole area needs a facelift. Take a look."