Thoughts on Quality vs. Quantity
We buy food based on how many calories we can purchase with a dollar. Maybe that is why most of us are on and off diets so often, quantity does not relate to contentment. We buy homes based on the notion that the more square feet we get for the dollar, the better we are financially, and socially within our peer group. Our convulsion to Quality enters our decisions about food, housing, water, even crime, where we think Quantity ( more jails) is the answer, not Quality, (prevention).
Walking around old Downtown Little Rock recently, with a local architect, we both noticed there are still plenty of Quality buildings available, the ingredients missing seem to be parking, affordable housing and people on the street,(Quantity). A redirect , with urgency to improve the interior of the city would greatly improve the lives of everyone. Maybe it is time to try to MATURE Little Rock, instead of continually expanding city services and infrastructure.
In 1890, around City Park, (MacArthur Park) and Downtown there was a architectural boom, maybe after 120 years we should try, with urgency to produce Quality in old downtown Little Rock again.