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First, go here: a view of Delancy Street South in New York City, next to the Williamsburg Bridge. (If you get the aerial shot, click to go to streetview.)
And then go further up the street by following the white line, placing the little oval at “Williamsburg” with your mouse and clicking. Or just click your way north up Delancy Street until the seasons change.
If your browser experience was like mine, the transition, from gray to green, will speak for itself. Use your mouse to swivel around, and see where you came from, now brightened by the foliage of spring.
These blocks – or at least the surface parking lots – are where Manhattan planners think density could go, to avoid disturbing already-developed parts of the city. You can see the parking lots more clearly here – which makes one realize how few such undeveloped places there are in this part of the city. For a full list of other potential sites, go to the article mentioned below: Everybody Inhale, top of the second page.
In other words, thriving inner cities are getting down to the last open spaces left – typically surface parking lots and brownfield sites – as well as boosting densities to accommodate the numbers their research tells them are coming.
