Talk:Urbana, Illinois
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[edit] POV
It seems to me that this article reads more like a pamphlet written by the Urbana Chamber of Commerce than an encyclopedia entry. It's terribly POV.
For example, "The best lunch place in Urbana is the cafe of Strawberry Fields..." Best according to whom? If there's some authoritative source for this like, say, a News-Gazette poll, there should be some indication of this. If it's the personal opinion of one editor, it should be removed.
I'm of the opinion that the "Eating in Urbana" and "Lincoln Square Mall" sections at the least should be eliminated. Eric 20:52, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I agree and will volunteer to find some alternative information. Agriculture 05:26, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
As an Urbana resident, I shall do my duty and add information about Urbana in a neutral point of view.
- Though not a resident of Champaign-Urbana (I visited the city once however), I went ahead and attempted to clean up the article. If an Urbana resident sees that the article is indeed cleaned up, please remove the cleanup tag. Thanks. Pentawing 07:23, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Urbana High School information
I just added a section on the High School, mostly the architectural aspect. As a current student at UHS, I feel the architecture of UHS represents Urbana's history very well, or something like that.--DrumFreak 16:40, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Lincoln Square Mall
I don't know what was in this section before, but I'd think a discussion of the politics surrounding the building of the mall (and razing most of the former downtown, or so I've been told), would be a valuable addition to the article (but hard to keep NPOV). -- The Photon 03:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
You can still see pieces of the old downtown in Busey Woods, north of Carle Park. Visit the old staircase!
I the '50's the downtowns were dying. The idea was to put stores under a single roof, and increase parking. This worked for a while, but the the malls at the edge of town took over. The whole thing was driven by cheap gasoline. Today the Mall is converting to office space, and local business oriented toward serving the office workers.M dorothy
