Comments on: New Yorbanism* http://polisnyc.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/new-yorbanism/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:01:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: DumboNYC http://polisnyc.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/new-yorbanism/#comment-728 DumboNYC Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:56:56 +0000 http://polisnyc.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/new-yorbanism/#comment-728 It's too bad the retail level of the Astor Place building creates no community connection. In fact the building breaks up St. Marks Pl and E.8th Street, when it could have joined the intersection to create a larger community between the two streets and Cooper Square. It’s too bad the retail level of the Astor Place building creates no community connection. In fact the building breaks up St. Marks Pl and E.8th Street, when it could have joined the intersection to create a larger community between the two streets and Cooper Square.

]]> By: john http://polisnyc.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/new-yorbanism/#comment-704 john Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:47:16 +0000 http://polisnyc.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/new-yorbanism/#comment-704 First, when the final list of Starchitects was announced for the WTC competition, Herbert Muschamp gloated that no New Urbanists had been allowed into the debate. Second, like most of the architects chosen, Lumea ignores that the publc WTC forums overwhelmingly called for the restoration of the street grid. Third, what are the superblock projects that Lumea admires? This is an interesting blog. I'm surprised you like Lumea's comments. What he's talking about is not New Urbanism, which on the whole is avoided in New York, but simply urbanism, of the sort that produced the city we love. More <a href="http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/03/architectural_d.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/what_else_is_ne.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. First, when the final list of Starchitects was announced for the WTC competition, Herbert Muschamp gloated that no New Urbanists had been allowed into the debate. Second, like most of the architects chosen, Lumea ignores that the publc WTC forums overwhelmingly called for the restoration of the street grid. Third, what are the superblock projects that Lumea admires?

This is an interesting blog. I’m surprised you like Lumea’s comments. What he’s talking about is not New Urbanism, which on the whole is avoided in New York, but simply urbanism, of the sort that produced the city we love.

More here and here.

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