Archives: Posts From September 2008
The City by the Palisades
By Sandy Ikeda | Mon, 29 Sep 2008 at 12:57 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Once before, I blogged a passage from Mark Helprin, one of my favorite novelists. Here's another one, this time from his "Winter's Tale":A great city is nothing more than a portrait of itself, and yet when all is said and done, its arsenals of scenes and ...
How Government Has Spoiled My Local Dining
By Sandy Ikeda | Mon, 29 Sep 2008 at 12:44 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: There's one thing I've been wanting to blog about since I began Culture of Congestion. It's why there's a paucity of very good restaurants in my neighborhood. I have a theory.To some of you who have read between the lines and figured out that I live in ...
The New Versus Old WTC and Revisiting BPC
By Sandy Ikeda | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 at 8:52 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: In response to my post "The Dark Side of Metropolis," my very loyal reader Benjamin Hemric writes in reference to the original versus the current plan for Ground Zero:The old plan, with just a few minor corrections, was actually more conducive to public ...
Naming Hell's Kitchen
By Sandy Ikeda | Fri, 19 Sep 2008 at 12:26 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Last evening at a dinner party someone asked about the origin of the name "Hell's Kitchen." That's the neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan just north of Chelsea and south of 57th street, which realtors for some time now have been trying to rename ...
The Dark Side of Metropolis
By Sandy Ikeda | Mon, 15 Sep 2008 at 1:16 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: In "Delirious New York," Rem Koolhaas defines…the dark side of Metropolis as an astronomical increase in the potential for disaster only just exceeded by an equally astronomical increase in the ability to avert it. Manhattan is the outcome of that ...
E.B. White on NYC
By Sandy Ikeda | Tue, 9 Sep 2008 at 7:38 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Astroland is closing. The world-famous Cyclone roller coaster will stay open thanks to landmarking (more effective for individual structures than for neighborhoods), but Coney Island's days as a working-class amusement park may finally be over. Sad. Rem ...
Bogart on the Anachronistic City and Transitional Sprawl
By Sandy Ikeda | Mon, 8 Sep 2008 at 1:49 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: In my post on Robert Bruegmann's book "Sprawl," I quoted him as saying that contemporary urbanists' (mostly negative) judgments on sprawl "were still based on assumptions codified in the late 1960s when American suburbs were booming and city centers ...
More Kindred Spirits: Mitchell Moss and "Market Urbanism" Blog
By Sandy Ikeda | Mon, 1 Sep 2008 at 6:33 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: I had the pleasure last week of meeting Mitchell L. Moss, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He's taught at NYU since the 1970s and has the air of an old-time New ...
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