tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post2366953097097796378..comments2024-02-01T04:37:41.878-05:00Comments on Cap'n Transit Rides Again: NYCHA and the fetishized green spaceCap'n Transithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057887736728828646noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-10381240599175744532015-04-14T19:23:19.499-04:002015-04-14T19:23:19.499-04:00"The green space offered to the poor -and tha..."The green space offered to the poor -and that's what we're talking about- is crap. Like everything else offered them in this country it's done on the cheap."<br /><br />It's a question of priorities. Green space in New York-- high quality or not-- is inevitably going to be very expensive, and crowds out other uses. The resources would be better used on a hundred other things, all of which would improve poor people's quality of life more than assorted patches of grass.alaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05334835705248693244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-24487534309921828132015-04-02T12:43:18.505-04:002015-04-02T12:43:18.505-04:00Modern example: www.streetsblog.org/2015/02/13/cit...Modern example: www.streetsblog.org/2015/02/13/city-may-turn-brooklyn-battery-tunnel-ramp-into-pedestrian-space/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13662230469102629066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-66638345471317754902015-03-31T09:54:42.590-04:002015-03-31T09:54:42.590-04:00The green space offered to the poor -and that'...The green space offered to the poor -and that's what we're talking about- is crap. Like everything else offered them in this country it's done on the cheap. And you're calling for the equivalent of "welfare reform". <br /><br />The Highline is badly designed, but it's popular, and you're not going to complain about it. And as an architect friend said to me before it opened, it'll be semi-privatized within 10 years, with 24 hour access to hotel guests, but not from the street.<br /><br />http://www.fastcodesign.com/3044136/slicker-city/a-pop-up-forest-is-coming-to-nycs-times-square<br /><br />"The new urbanism" includes green space, doesn't it? D. Ghirlandaiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283931383770759507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862444008740250372.post-54827886857297036012015-03-30T13:14:07.326-04:002015-03-30T13:14:07.326-04:00There were riots in China a couple of years ago, w...There were riots in China a couple of years ago, when factory owners under pressure from western protestors cut the maximum working hours for the employees. It turns out the workers wanted to work 15 hour days, because they were making money and saving it. So I guess that makes 15 hour workdays ideal, because knee-jerk reactions are always the best response to knee-jerk reactions.<br /><br />I didn't catch at first how much you used the News story as a jumping off point. Using the photograph you've chosen as an example of "fetishized green space" is just perverse. But of course I found your site through an approving link by a white guy who grew up the the suburbs and who refers to his new home affectionately as "the urban hellhole" D. Ghirlandaiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283931383770759507noreply@blogger.com