Archives: Posts From March 2008
Atlantic and Hudson Yards Redux
By Sandy Ikeda | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 | Permalink
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Fred Kent on making Brooklyn Bridge Park a real part of the city
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 30 Mar 2008 | Permalink
Excerpt: With several New York mega-projects in jeopardy – most spectacularly Atlantic Yards and Penn/Moynihan Station – one that seems to be on track (albeit after over 20 years of delays) at least for now is the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park, stretching over a ...
Rem Koolhaas: Delirious Dubai?
By Sandy Ikeda | Sat, 22 Mar 2008 at 2:32 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: "A city cannot be a work of art," Jane Jacobs once wrote.
Well, the renowned architect Rem Koolhaas has designed an enormous city-district that looks like a gorgeous work of art. To call it a mega-project would be a gross understatement. How about ...
A Walker in the City, Just Not Where You'd Expect
By Sandy Ikeda | Wed, 19 Mar 2008 at 2:16 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Where do commuters walk to work the most?
New York? Celebration, FL? Portland, OR? Try Tempe, AZ — part of metro Phoenix, Exhibit A in the case against so-called urban sprawl.
Here's a list of the top cities with "The highest percentage of residents ...
Community Boards Face Incentive and Knowledge Problems
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 16 Mar 2008 at 6:55 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: How effectively can a community board convey the actual land-use preferences of the community it's supposed to represent?
This is the deeper question underlying the debate on Sheldon Solow's $4 billion proposal to develop the site of the old Con Ed ...
A moratorium on eminent domain? An eminent idea!
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 16 Mar 2008 at 6:51 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Mayor Bloomberg and a host of New York mega-developers, including Bruce Ratner, may be squirming a bit as David Paterson becomes governor on Monday. As a member of the state legislature, Paterson called for a state-wide moratorium on what he described as ...
Community Boards Face Incentive and Knowledge Problems
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 16 Mar 2008 at 10:17 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: How effectively can a community board convey the actual land-use preferences of the community it's supposed to represent?
This is the deeper question underlying the debate on Sheldon Solow's $4 billion proposal to develop the site of the old Con Ed power ...
Can helping artists stay put spur development?
By Sandy Ikeda | Sat, 8 Mar 2008 at 1:16 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: One typical pattern of economic development, in New York and other cities, is when artists move into a run-down district that has lots of cheap space and turn the place hip. Hipness then attracts galleries, funky performance spaces, and quirky shops, ...
Following Up on My Last Post and Responding to a Critic
By Sandy Ikeda | Tue, 4 Mar 2008 at 12:21 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: After yesterday's posting on how some local mega-projects are scaling back, Peter Kiefer of The Sun had an article today on the same subject (with much more extensive reportage), "Unease erodes ambition on real estate." In addition to the projects I ...
With Recession in the Wind, Local Mega-Projects Scale Back and Slow Down
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 2 Mar 2008 at 1:54 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: It was only a couple of months ago that the prospects for growth in Downtown Brooklyn were so rosy. There were estimates of more than 14,000 new residential units to be built in the next few years, the tempestuous but on-going plans for Atlantic Yards, ...
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