Michael Moynihan: Cork should copy Colombia and bring in gondola lifts to help city
Summer 2024 — underwhelming as it is so far — cannot be experienced in a large open green space in Cork City
Cork is uniquely suited to a gondola system like the one in Medellín in Colombia, above, given the bowl effect of the hills of the northside leading down into the city centre.
Learning what works for cities is one of this column’s obsessions, which is why thanks are due to the reader who pointed me towards an interesting piece The New York Times published a while back.
And thanks also to Jenna Schnuer, the author of the piece. She looked at six cities on five continents which are reimagining urban life, but, more importantly, she dug into the detail to get some concrete examples of what that ‘reimagining’ means in real life.
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