Archives: Posts From June 2008
Olafur Eliasson's Water Falls Short
By Sandy Ikeda | Fri, 27 Jun 2008 at 11:45 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Olafur Eliasson's "waterfalls" public-art project opened yesterday. After weeks of anticipation we were eager to see this thing running, and proud that the artist saw fit to place half of it in our now-trendy borough of Brooklyn.(Francis Morrone of the ...
A Walk in the Park (Avenue)
By Sandy Ikeda | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 at 2:10 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Last Monday the Sun reported another attempt by the Mayor to Europeanize NYC — not that there's anything wrong with that. He has proposed closing a 5-mile stretch of road (though the New York Times measures it at 6.9 miles) to cars and trucks, from ...
Fewer Signs, More Minds
By Sandy Ikeda | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 at 2:02 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Last December I blogged "The Common Sense of Traffic Anarchy," about how the cities in the Netherlands (and other Northern European countries) have begun to successfully address traffic problems by removing traffic regulations and signage. Over at the ...
On Willets Point Buy-Outs and Roadfood Digest on Grimaldi's
By Sandy Ikeda | Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 11:22 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Here's an article in Crain's New York Business about the City reaching deals with two landowners at Willets Point. (Hat tip to JW.) As I've blogged before (here, here, and here), there are some 260 business in the area just east of the new Mets ballpark ...
Earthquake in China, II: The Resilience of Cities
By Sandy Ikeda | Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 11:14 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: I recently blogged in "Earthquake in China I" about the 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan Province that has left some 5 million persons homeless. Here I'd like to address the resilience of traumatized cities and what role will the government play in the recovery ...
The Vertical City as an Unintended Consequence
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 15 Jun 2008 at 3:10 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: In an earlier post on "Elevating Culture," I quoted this from Nick Paumgarten's New Yorker article: "Two things make tall buildings possible: the steel frame and the safety elevator."
Now, steel-frame construction solved the engineering problem of how to ...
'The Evolution of City Population Density in the United States'
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 15 Jun 2008 at 3:09 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: That's the title of an interesting paper by Kevin A. Bryan, Brian D. Minton, and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. You can find the article on this website, although you'll have to look for it a bit on the page. It ...
Earthquake in China I: The Unseen Infrastructure of Cities
By Sandy Ikeda | Fri, 13 Jun 2008 at 7:36 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The enormity of the May 12th earthquake in China, which has so far killed some 50,000 persons, boggles the mind. In comparison, Hurricane Katrina tragically left 1,836 dead along the Gulf Coast and destroyed some 220,000 homes. Now, from MSNBC we read ...
The City, Endlessly Evolving
By Sandy Ikeda | Mon, 9 Jun 2008 at 5:05 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Peter Gordon's blog recently pointed me to another article in the May 31st Economist called "An Age of Transformation," about how suburbs are becoming more like city centers.
The article finds suburbs today "ethnically and demographically mixed … less ...
Which American City Generates the Least Carbon per Person?
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 8 Jun 2008 at 1:14 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The winner among continental American cities, according to the Brookings Institution, as reported in the May 31st issue of The Economist, is … Los Angeles! Portland, Oregon, posterchild of so-called "smart growth," takes second place.
Number one in ...
The World's Top 10 Cities for Billionaires
By Sandy Ikeda | Thu, 5 Jun 2008 at 12:28 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Number one may (or may not) surprise you. Hint: It's not New York (at least not for the moment), which is currently number 2. America does have three other cities in the top ten: Los Angeles, Dallas, and San Francisco. Read the Forbes article here ...
Cooking Up New Ideas in a Rented Kitchen
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 1 Jun 2008 at 1:30 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Seems I had to travel to Arizona to find out about a small Brooklyn-based company, called Kitchen for Hire, Inc. (Hat tip to Laurie Kagiyama.) You can also read about it here.
Priscilla Maddox and Joan Reid began renting a commercial kitchen to start-up ...
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