Brooklyn architect David Grider had an interesting rebuttal to The Observer‘s story last week about the need for greater infrastructure investment in the country and the region, which challenges many assumptions about rail travel and even reminds us the Erie Canal was not the super success everyone likes to remember it as. Read More
Over time, scholars of urban life have explained New York’s special qualities in various ways. Our city, from its birth as a Dutch harbor to the construction of the Erie Canal, was first a gateway economy. Then, as other cities surpassed New York as a port and a manufacturing center, New York became America’s center Read More
Unearthing
Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City , by Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana
diZerega Wall. Yale University Press, 374 pages, $39.95.
New York is a city that eats
its history. As soon as market forces decree that a neighborhood must be put to
a new use, developers and their architects swoop in to Read More
Perhaps the secret of why New York will eventually recover and continue to be the greatest city in the world is the secret of the swarm. The New York swarm is like the hordes of bees or ants who, lacking central direction and operating by instinct, move by the hundreds of thousands in all directions Read More
