Ronda Kaysen: Atlantic Yards Goes Prefab
Crain’s is reporting that Bruce Ratner really is going to build the world’s tallest prefab tower at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn.
After he fielded the idea, I wrote a story for The New York Times about the potential of building large, prefab buildings.
There are other large-scale prefab…
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Barclays Center and Atlantic Yards Phase 1 - Brooklyn New York.
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Atlantic Yards Project Phase 1 Corner of Dean Street and Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn.
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Atlantic Yards Phase 1 and Barclays Center - Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
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"More and more the spaces of the modern city are being produced for us rather than by us."
Don Mitchell The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003) at 18. (via urbanjoburg)
Oh Don, you wily Marxist geographer, you.
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"Cities are like electrical transformers: they increase tension, accelerate exchanges, and are endlessly churning human lives"
Fernand Braudel (1967)
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A “High Line” Makeover for A Former Railroad in Philly?
Vanessa Quirk, archdaily.comFrom a park in a forgotten metro station to a human-sized “LEGO” bridge (see our post: The 4 Coolest “High Line” Inspired Projects), the massive success of New York City‘s High Line continues to inspire citizens across the globe to see th…
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