Two Architects Give NYC a Makeover
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Date: 2022-07-06
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Marco
NYC is the way it is because city planners had an unflinchingly rigid grand utopian vision that has proven to be less than effective when it comes to issues like cost of housing, transit, and distribution of zoned areas. There's nothing like declaring that NYC would be better off without private cars to show that you suffer from the exact same problem. The same is true for the notion that NYC would be better off shunting manufacturing off to either side of the island, closed off by a three block wide -park-. Has the architect explored what happens when such zoned inflexibility occurs in modern cities? In Boston, it led to blight and dangerous nighttime ghost towns. In Philadelphia, the blight spread and now the once-proud city is reeling.
These gentlemen are adherents to a reactionary, cancerous and out-of-touch line of thinking that, at best, is ineffective and perilous.
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NYC is the way it is because city planners had an unflinchingly rigid grand utopian vision that has proven to be less than effective when it comes to issues like cost of housing, transit, and distribution of zoned areas. There's nothing like declaring that NYC would be better off without private cars to show that you suffer from the exact same problem. The same is true for the notion that NYC would be better off shunting manufacturing off to either side of the island, closed off by a three block wide -park-. Has the architect explored what happens when such zoned inflexibility occurs in modern cities? In Boston, it led to blight and dangerous nighttime ghost towns. In Philadelphia, the blight spread and now the once-proud city is reeling.
These gentlemen are adherents to a reactionary, cancerous and out-of-touch line of thinking that, at best, is ineffective and perilous.
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Chippies121
I agree with this. More greenways for sure and NYC needs a more modern central transportation station which links subways, trains, buses together. Definitely a new connection across either the Hudson or East River.
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I agree with this. More greenways for sure and NYC needs a more modern central transportation station which links subways, trains, buses together. Definitely a new connection across either the Hudson or East River.
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Terence
To not even mention the boroughs when that is where the majority of population growth is heading shows how shallow of a view these -master planners- really have of NY
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To not even mention the boroughs when that is where the majority of population growth is heading shows how shallow of a view these -master planners- really have of NY
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David
Yeah, good luck with that. I'll be over here, on planet earth, enjoying my car. That I need for work. These -architects- are from the firm, Idiot & Idiot.
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Yeah, good luck with that. I'll be over here, on planet earth, enjoying my car. That I need for work. These -architects- are from the firm, Idiot & Idiot.
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King
Don-t know why the guy on the left is dissing private companies even though there way superior than the public sector in everything
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Don-t know why the guy on the left is dissing private companies even though there way superior than the public sector in everything
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Victor
Lost all credibility the minute that one guy said NY was the only major city with express trains. Ever been to Chicago, meathead?
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Lost all credibility the minute that one guy said NY was the only major city with express trains. Ever been to Chicago, meathead?
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TheAlbinoskunk
lol calling London an even metro system. in the centre, absolutely, but think about South London, or the East. absurd
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lol calling London an even metro system. in the centre, absolutely, but think about South London, or the East. absurd
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Renovation
I reimagine the world all the time, I want to be an architect and make the world a health planet but shit I'm only 13: (
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I reimagine the world all the time, I want to be an architect and make the world a health planet but shit I'm only 13: (
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Obsideon
Bikes and ferries. A big draw in January. Some great ideas presented but some very pie in the shy ideas also.
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Bikes and ferries. A big draw in January. Some great ideas presented but some very pie in the shy ideas also.
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Francis
I agree with these guys, let's rethink how we work, live and play! Let's do it to all major cities!
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I agree with these guys, let's rethink how we work, live and play! Let's do it to all major cities!
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