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Aug. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Mall Debate: The Peculiar Ecology of Pedestrian Spaces

A follow-up piece in the New York Times on the suggestion that the pedestrian spaces of Times Square should be…
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Aug. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Surrendering in Times Square: The dilemma of public spaces

Never underestimate the ability of people to screw up a really good thing – and for political leaders to over-react.…
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Jul. 31, 2015 / Gordon Price

The New York View of the World

You may be familiar with this famous New Yorker cover from 1976, by Saul Steinberg: View of the World from…
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Jun. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Big Money, Big Buildings … and why just adding supply doesn’t work

Durning chooses this from CityLab: The Big, Big, Big, Big Money Behind Tall Buildings How super-luxury apartments became a major…
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May. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: How subway delays work

Scot found this in Brokelyn:  New York’s MTA made a cute 16-bit video to explain how subway delays work .…
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

NYC vs SFO

This cartoon series from writer and comedian Sarah Cooper by way of CityLab (by way of Frank Ducote). . More here.…
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Apr. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paris versus – or vis-a-vis – New York

A popular theme, this comparison (for instance, this video).  And now this: In 2012 Penguin Books published Vahram Muratyan’s book…
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Apr. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Brooklyn 2 – The new riverfront

Nothing quite so well captures the character of the post-industrial city as Brooklyn Bridge Park – 85 acres, spanning over…
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Apr. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Brooklyn – 1: Is Its Downtown Vancouverizing?

New York is in full recovery after the financial crisis of 2008.  Infill everywhere.  But the greatest change is underway…
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Apr. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Time-lapse: Half a Millennium of Manhattan

From the New York Times: An imposingly realistic vision of 2 World Trade Center, the ultimately doomed south tower, will…
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Apr. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Roosevelt Island / Four Freedoms Park – 3

After visiting Four Freedoms Park, it’s worth heading north to tour the rest of the Island – an urban renewal…
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Apr. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Roosevelt Island / Four Freedoms Park – 2

This is one of the last works of the great architect Louis Kahn (he had the drawings with him when he…
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Apr. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Roosevelt Island / Four Freedoms Park – 1

It’s likely one the least visited but most interesting urbanist experiences accessible from Midtown Manhattan – and most affordable too.…
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Apr. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York – Cooper Square 41 – 1

[It appears that the posting of Cooper Square 41 – 1 didn’t make into, um, print.  Here it is.] .…

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