Elements of Urbanism: Mobile

[stjr]

A few words...

Clean, green, parks, pedestrian friendly, historic preservation, street friendly frontage.  From a town 1/3 our size.

Not bashing Jax, just totally frustrated and disappointed with our leadership over the last 50 years when it comes to planning our community's development .... and asking as we all do: why? why? why? can't we get our act together like everyone else.  We have the weather, the river, the history, the economy, the resources ... yet, we can't get off the launching pad.  Again, it's not money (we have spent plenty of that!) so much as vision, master planning, doing what's right ... not what makes the GOB's happy.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Yes, I agree its not a bash,just the truth!! Nice photo tour, love the green clean parks,

[CS Foltz]

As I have said in the past...........No plan, no vision and at the rate we are going .....no money! Fellow posters we really have no one to blame but ourselves, I mean, we voted in the buffoons. We have accepted mediocrity and being guided by the "Nifty Fifty" as they have made those back room deals and lined their pockets and we put up with it!! I will say it one more time.............time to clean house and start over with persons who give a darn about this City and all of the diverse elements it is made of!

[Keith-N-Jax]

Voted in who,you mean they won the vote.

[David]

BAM! In your face to alotta other cities too, like Birmingham, New Orleans, Tampa, Orlando, Nashville, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and on, and on, and on.

Mobile is also home of the original U.S.Mardi Gras; They started theirs fifteen years before N.O.'s according to wiki.

I can see alotta cities being envious of Mobile.

True, but I don't live in any of those cities. If there's one thing Jacksonville could always count on for a confidence booster, it was cities in Alabama. Now they throw this at us? We've gotta catch up!

[lewyn]

This is a city where the bus routes stop running at 6 PM, and there are only about a dozen of them.  http://www.thewavetransit.com/RidingTheWave/buses.htm

As far as I am concerned, such a place makes Jax look pretty good by comparison!

[Keith-N-Jax]

Because of buses,,thats a reach. I'll take clean, kept parks since I  have my own transportation. Its not about which city is better.

[thelakelander]

Yes, this series was never about making Jax look bad or about which city is better than the other.  Instead, they give Jax residents a chance to see how other cities have addressed many of the same issues we face locally.  So one could probably find good and bad examples in every community about what or what not to do locally.

[Miss Fixit]

I missed this article  the first time around.  I've got "Mobile envy" now - think I'll add it to my list of summer vacation destinations!

Jacksonville does need to spend more on park maintenance, and could learn a lot about using its historic resources from Mobile - check out those great museums in Mobile!