Where?

Initially, I wanted to work on a project at home, because I love home. I love almost everything about it. I love the culture (minus the way too wealthy people who are ruining it). I love the mountains. I love skiing. I love the proximity to nature, but most of all I loved growing up there because Aspen is a great place for kids. 

I started to think about why it was such a wonderful place to grow up, and one of the things that stuck with me was that there was always something or somewhere to go that was free. The natural environment, with the aid of man-made interventions that strategically emphasized (and occasionally created) places of interest, provided an endless playground for kids at a wonderfully low-cost for parents. 

I began to wonder if a similar strategy could be applied to Pittsburgh to create spaces specifically geared towards children.  The natural environment of Pittsburgh is Urban rather than Forested, but the idea of creating an Urban hiking trail got me very excited about how the two conditions can be similar, and how they must vary. 

I immediately started thinking about places in Pittsburgh, and the various urban textures they create. I would love to turn this into some sort of park-like path (or trail) that both links neighborhoods and provides these urban experiences. I'm not sure yet if that's viable, or if that is exactly where I want to go with this. 

What ever it is, I think I have my answer to where. I'm trying to bring a little bit of my home to PITTSBURGH