The parking ramps have played a big role in the development of the skyways. Most of dowtown development has followed the general outlines of an urban renewal vision dating back to the fifties, which placed parking on the outer perimeter of the shopping and working districts. This fact worked in favor of the successive skyways built out from the center of downtown. If anyone doubted how useful they were, they only had to think about walking four blocks from their parking ramp to their office in -40 degree wind chill.
For me, the parking ramps constitute a kind of underworld contrasting to the priveleged elevation of the skyways, even the ramps that are actually several stories higher than the skyways themselves.
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