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Nov. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: 9/11 Memorial Museum

The 9/11 Memorial Museum must have been an extraordinarily challenging task to design and curate – and the result, I think, has…
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Nov. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Coordination

A cyclist in New York: casual but considered.   A study in black and white (the beard, the bike, the…
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Nov. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: World Trade Center site

No discussion of new architecture in New York could omit the World Trade Center – the Freedom Tower (or One…
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Nov. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

"Capitulating to real-estate interests:" The Dilemma for Affordable Housing Leaders

Why is it that political leaders from the left, with affordable housing as a main platform plank, suffer from the…
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Nov. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Supertalls and Downtown Brooklyn

Infill is not just confined to sliced blobs.  Tall thin towers proliferate in the trending neighbourhoods, notably in the downtown…
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Nov. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: New Architecture – the Whitney

  The latest splash is the new Whitney Museum of American Art in the Meat-Packing District, at the southern-most end…
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Nov. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: New(ish) Architecture

Still so many images to go.  It’ll be heavy on NYC this week. While cycling down the Hudson River Greenway…
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Nov. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Power, precedence, and morality on the streets of New York

From the New Yorker – no new arguments, just the old ones all put in one place: .   Bicyclists,…
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Nov. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

New York: Midtown in the 1930s

Spank, in commenting to an item below, linked to a striking image of Manhattan that I’ve not seen before: .…
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Nov. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

The City died when you stopped being cool

Some quotes from a beautifully crafted opinion piece in the NY Times on that eternal question that afflicts cities like…
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Nov. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: At last, a new subway station

With the redevelopment of the Hudson Yards has come an extension of a major subway line, the 7 (or as some…
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Nov. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Hudson Yards (with a side trip to Edmonton)

More images of my October trip to New York.   We’ve walked across Manhattan along 54th Street to the Hudson…
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Oct. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: The Latest Thing in New York

It’s this: . At least as of September 1. From gizmodo: Against all odds, the Nissan NV-200 will rule the…
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Oct. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

October in New York: Too Much of a Good Thing for Too Many

Yes, the weather was beautiful. Yes, it was a long weekend.  Yes, this an urbanist must-see in NYC. But the…

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