September 2010
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Brooklyn Terminal Market
Dedicated by the late Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia, the Brooklyn Terminal Market opened for business in 1942. Located on Foster Avenue between East 83 and East 87 streets, the market has earned a fabulous reputation for offering excellent quality at great prices. In fact, after 66 years of both retail and wholesale business, the Brooklyn Terminal Mark had virtually become a Canarsie Landmark.
Those...
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“The poverty of much urbanist thought can be reduced to a central fallacy: that...”
– Sanford Kwinter and Daniela Fabricius, “The American City / Urbanism: An Archivist’s Art?” in Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, et.al. Mutations. Edited by Barcelona: ACTAR. 2001. p. 495.
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UPS Worldport Facts
Overview
Worldport is the largest fully automated package handling facility in the world. The operation currently turns over 130 aircraft daily, processing an average of 1.2 million packages a day with a record 2.5 million packages processed on Peak Day 2009.
Worldport history
Beginning in 1999, UPS undertook the largest capital project in the company’s history with the $1 billion expansion of...
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System of Systems →
smarterplanet:
Click here to view the embedded video.
In the spirit and style of the Internet of Things video from earlier this year, we have just released this new film, System of Systems. The video…
“Well, if something is unpredictable, the poor computer isn’t able to make a decision. So the poor computer, all it can do is to say here is the damn information, you make the...
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“Almost all mobilities presuppose large-scale immobile infrastructures that make...”
– John Urry. Mobilities. 2007. p. 19.
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Transbay Transit Center
The Transbay Transit Center Project is a visionary transportation and housing project that transforms downtown San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area’s regional transportation system by creating a “Grand Central Station of the West” in the heart of a new transit-friendly neighborhood.
The $4 billion project will replace the current Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets in San...
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South station on track to impress
Massive glass-screen walls serve as its walls and roofs, while towering pillars at the center of the hall immediately draw the attention of visitors. Short of a runway outside, the new Beijing South railway station could pass off for any major international airport. Already, the station promises to be the largest of its kind in Asia once it starts operations on Aug 1, railway officials have said.
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The Smarter City →
It all begins with data….
brought to you by IBM
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Great American Stations project →
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2nd Ave. Subway
The Second Avenue subway, finally under construction on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is of course a vast underground project. The $4.45 billion first phase, now scheduled to be completed in 2018, will extend from 96th Street to 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue.
But the project will also include construction above ground — not just station entrances but also a half-dozen boxy buildings on...
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Transit Blueprint for Urban Core →
A new study by the Regional Plan Association lays out a comprehensive plan for new and upgraded transit for New York City and Northern New Jersey. The 53-page, in-depth report entitled “Tomorrow’s Transit: New Mobility for the Region’s Urban Core” outlines new subway, bus, commuter rail, light rail and ferry projects for the Region’s ‘Urban Core,’ which...
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The Dawn of Digital Urbanism
As the internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous and reality moves toward the virtual, the emergent Cyberspace will almost certainly take on an urban form — though it remains to be seen whether it will lean more heavily on the physical or virtual world. Either way, geography will become less and less binding as cities learn to connect in ever more complex ways, and we will likely come to...
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“Going beyond stylistic or formal issues, infrastructural urbanism offers a new...”
– Stan Allen, “Infrastructural Urbanism.” Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 1999. p. 52.
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proposal
The railroad terminal has often confounded architects. Historically railroads existed within the domain of engineers, whose chief objectives were the smooth operations of a complex transportation network. As opposed to modern highway systems or air-traffic corridors, the terminus of the network often lay directly in the heart of the city, traditionally the domain of architects. Thus the terminal...
