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@RickCarusoLA explains why he included curbs and gutters at The Grove as intentional design choices:
"They're there because your eye picks it up."
"If we had built The Grove as a flat plaza without curbs and gutters, you wouldn't read it in your mind as a street."
"The rhythm of the trees, the rhythm of the streetlights. We study all of that stuff."
"We actually had a landscape architect on The Grove who threatened to quit because he wasn't going to design curbs and gutters. He said, 'People are going to trip.' I said, 'People don't trip walking around cities. Why are they going to trip here?'"
From his appearance on the show in April.