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New York City Subway Per Kilometre Cost New York City is currently building a 'new' subway line in Manhattan that will function at least for its first decade as an extension of an existing line. This phase of the line will include three new stations and approximately five kilometres of new...

Safdie's Stairways to Heaven The Safdie website already has images of their 'Stairways to Heaven' posted: http://www.msafdie.com/php/print_project.php?id=96

These were designed by architect Zak Ghanim about ten years ago. There are newspaper articles about them that I can dig up if you're interested. I believe the owner/developer either lived in one or his sister did and the second was built to sell.

Streetcars As Urban Development Catalyst I visited Portland, Oregon and Seattle last month and both of those cities recently developed new streetcar systems explicitly as catalysts for urban development. The Pearl District, one of the areas served by the streetcar system (which is partially...

Elegant Garage Sale ¡My mother is an Elegant Garage Sale fanatic!

Vancouver Transit I just got back to my home in New York from a four day visit to Vancouver. After spending several days in Portland and Seattle, it was pretty depressing to realize that they had a Canadian city beat on several transit quality metrics. The most serious drawback to...

Park Avenue is a relatively lifeless traffic artery, at least north of Grand Central. At least St. Clair has some street life at some points. Maybe granny was thinking about Madison Avenue or Lexington Avenue? Those are streets to emulate.

As the son of an immigrant from Rotterdam, and someone who's visited several times, my take is that Toronto's urban fabric is generally much better. Downtown Rotterdam is a depressing 1950s area with depressing Modernist buildings. After the German bombing campaign destroyed most of the city's...

My firm designed the beige stucco-covered building on the left of this one in the first photo. Our building is one of the last single room occupancy buildings (SROs) on the Bowery, which used to be home to many of them. One of the noteworthy aspects of this infill project is that it lines up...