Vincent Ponte

Blogs
January 3, 2012
Those Brand-New, Up-to-Date Maps of the Downtown Tunnels Are Ready For Unfolding
Noah Jeppson and his mapsI met Friend of Unfair Park Noah Jeppson for breakfast this morning and traded him a bagel for a stack of his maps to the downtown tunnels; I got the far better deal. Way back in June, you may recall, we noted that Jeppson was attempting to kickstart efforts to render a b ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2011
At Last, You Can Read the Finished Downtown Dallas 360 Plan: A Pathway to the Future
From the Downtown Dallas 360 report: "The underground tunnel system linking office buildings, hotels and other destinations is often a sterile, unexciting environment that draws life from streets above."One week from Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will hold a public hearing and, more than lik ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Going Underground (Again): More Thoughts On and Looks At Downtown Dallas's Tunnels
Click to embiggen: Vincent Ponte's plan for Dallas from the June 1968 EsquireAs promised, Patrick "Car-Free" Kennedy has posted his thoughts on the YouPlusDallas video in which Jack Gosnell regales viewers with tales of how Dallas came to bury its businesses beneath downtown. And, like Gosnell an ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
Into Downtown's Tunnels, A Horror Story
From time to time we've revisited the damage done to downtown Dallas by Montreal urban planner Vincent Ponte, who proposed in the June 1968 issue of Esquire that downtown Dallas bury its businesses underground -- a decision then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller referred to in The New York Times in '05 as " ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2008
Forty Years Ago, A Man Had a Plan for Downtown Dallas ...
News
December 11, 1997
That giant sucking sound
No, not The Dallas Morning News' arena coverage--but tax dollars being siphoned away for millionaires' pet projects