After having almost lost DART’s future connection to DFW Airport, it is clear that the light rail is a regional rail system. What Dallas needs is a practical way to get around.

ART DIALOGUE

In “The Concrete First Ladies of DFW,” which appeared on Renegade Bus earlier this month, New York-based architect Hans Roegele criticized the Arts District as an urban space, calling it mono-functional. Renegade Bus’ Joan Arbery followed up with Roegele to see if he believes the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, which is currently under construction, will help diversify the use of this key location in Dallas’ urban core.

PHOTO ESSAY
Known mostly for tragedies—the tornado of 1953, the “Crash at Crush,” and the Branch Davidian Siege—a first impression of Waco suggests a ghost town with a few remaining monuments to the city it once was and the potential it possessed before life got the better of it.

ART DIALOGUE:
Jorge Pardo
Mischievous and spirited, Los Angeles-based artist Jorge Pardo’s work often challenges and confronts the boundaries between art, architecture, and design. We spoke with Mr. Pardo who was in Dallas May 9 for “Designing for Collections,” the second annual Dallas Design Symposium.

We’d like to know what parks you love – why you love them, how you use them and how they could be better. Tell us where you congregate. No space is too small.

There is such a concentration of great buildings and parks by famous modernists in Dallas and Fort Worth that many architects make a pilgrimage to see them at least once in their lifetime, and often return elated, surprised and wanting to have a go themselves. However, one unexpected result may be “Prima donna” building syndrome.

While the city continues to squabble about the future of the Trinity River Project, the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park may quietly emerge as Dallas’ great urban space.

It’s been a long time since someone laid their cards on the table and said, “Screw how you all live.” Sometimes you just can’t beat the downright sexiness of imperialism.