Wade Lagoon at the Cleveland Museum of Art is an iconic and beloved landmark in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood. It also happens to be a man-made body of water along Doan Brook, downstream of the Shaker Lakes. (The lagoon used to be connected to the brook but no longer is; part of a nearly mile-long underground culverted section of brook runs past the lagoon.) That humans, generally speaking, are more drawn to lakes than to brooks seems like an obvious fact of human nature, and one that's important to consider when deciding on plans for the future of the Shaker Lakes. I've been frustrated, then, by how some people continue to be in denial about this fact. (Example: in response to statements about the health benefits of access to blue space, or of how proximity to water features makes homes more desirable, I've seen lake removal advocates state that there will still be water where the lakes were, as if this is some amazingly clever point.) Unfortunately, the...