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Showing posts with label land use. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land use. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Land trusts, co-ops and imperfect representation

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The site of the Champlain Towers South partial collapse in Surfside, Florida. Photo: National Institute of Standards and Technology. Las...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Attack of the Vertical Suburb

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Recently we've seen a rash of articles that talk about "suburbs in the city," or "suburbanizing the city." Some a...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Transmillennial NYC?

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A while back I was arguing with someone about "Bus Rapid Transit," and they suggested that New York should emulate the system used...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Local knowledge, global bullshit

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In my neighborhood, on a narrow block zoned M-1 next to the Long Island Railroad main line, is a parking lot. A few years ago, the owners o...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

New traffic patterns, new driving habits

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I'm not a traffic engineer, but I know that old habits die hard. I also know that it's possible to create new habits, and once thos...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

I am Monoculture, Destroyer of Worlds

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There's an idea going around that "gentrification" imposes a monoculture on the neighborhoods it touches. In a whirlwind of de...
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Monday, November 9, 2015

The anti-bus terminal

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The Department of City Planning thinks it would be a good idea to have a bus terminal in the new "Flushing West" district that th...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

It's time to stop saying "gentrification"

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Gentrification is a bad word, because it blames the wrong people. Don't talk about "gentrification" or "gentrifiers....
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Which should we fight harder, job sprawl or housing sprawl?

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Eric Jaffe had a good review of a University of Denver study about job sprawl. The study shows, basically, that if you make transit more c...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

Do New York's "manufacturing zones" promote driving?

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I read on YIMBY that some people who live or work in the Jerome Avenue corridor in the Bronx are concerned that rezoning the area to allow ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

NYCHA and the fetishized green space

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Today the Daily News published a hyperbolic " EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA selling off green space to developers! " As one person remarked o...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Crossing the Yards

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One of the arguments given by proponents of decking the Sunnyside Yards is that Sunnyside is cut off from Astoria and Long Island City by t...
Monday, January 5, 2015

The MTA is not interested

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One cornerstone of the arguments for the Queensway rail-trail is that the MTA isn’t interested in restoring passenger rail service. Queensw...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The cargo cult of railyard decks

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I recently wrote about a proposal to build a deck over the Sunnyside Yards . This got me thinking about these projects in general. I'...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

When bike paths are not transportation

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I've written before about the capacity of bike paths to move large numbers of people. A dedicated bike path performs this function best...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Decking the Sunnyside Yards: the history of a fantasy

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Becoming the Yards: 1643: Burger Jorrisen receives the first patent for farmland near the swamps surrounding the Dutch Kills. 1861: The Lo...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

The problems with the yards

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I live in Woodside, Queens, not too far from Sunnyside. I love both neighborhoods, but there are a few problems. Recently, urban planners ...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Ferguson, Missouri is not a Strong Town

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A lot of people have had a lot of insights about the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri. I want to highlight a few that I think are partic...
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