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August 04, 2005
Eight-4 Good Buddy
New and interesting wind projects blowing around, this here, and this proposal to power the Manchester City Football Club - and some 2000 houses surrounding it. Sexy sell of wind power I'd say. Imagine American football fans drunkenly praising the windmill adjacent the stadium. Freedom in the Air!
Speaking of freedom, in this case, to build 8000 sqft McMansions! Seems some folks in the San Fernando valley have sucessfully passed legislation to limit the size of homes according to the size of the lot they're built on. "The measure will limit homes built on lots of 8,000 sq. ft. or less to 2,400 sq. ft. - or 40 percent of the lot size, whichever is greater." Another great moment in Nimby history. Seriously, who fucking needs more than 3000 sft?
Miss Representation gives us the juice on the freight tunnel, which seemed like a dead mole oh-so-recently. Quite an exciting development, and all the more incentive to tax the shit out of the Verrazano, coming into Brooklyn. Which is currently where all the heavy truck traffic from NJ is found, winding thru residential Brooklyn, and onto the East River bridges, thereby avoiding the NJ tunnel tolls.
The Grey Lady finally spills some ink on the housing construction boom taking place in NYC. Although they forgo a discussion of the Type and Design of much of the work being built. Or the fact that the type of shit they're throwing up around the 5 boros fixes a spotlight on our horrible relationship with the process, whereby the developer designs his crap, and since it passes for new housing, it gets cleared by the DDC. Quality is not a trademark of todays boom. But Cheap Speed is. On that note, even the big investment houses are now worried that Greenspan has lost his marbles in his refusal to see the housing bubble for what it is. A massive risk to the economic health of the country. Naw, Freedom Bitch!
Excellent photo exhibit up at the Museum of the City of New York documenting Lower Manhattan just before a good 60 acres were razed under New York's urban renewal plan. Not only exteriors mind you, back in 1966, the photographer Danny Lyon, got keys to the universal lock they used to lock up the condemned gems. He states: "This is nothing, what they did down here: The 60 acres is nothing. We're destroying 6 billion acres of America, and we're doing it right now. We're doing it because you can get a mortgage for 5 percent." And 8,000 sq feet on a cul-de-sac. Oh, check this NYTimes Image.. and article.
Oh, remember those neat space photos of the collapse of Antarctic ice shelf? Yea, biggest in 10,000 years. On a more positive note, the worlds first hybrid cab driver. Global Warming? Nahhh. Freedom Bitch!
Hurray, another one on the congestion charge wagon... Transfer once again reiterates the plan to Triple Parking Lot Rates in Manhattan. Lets start there. Yes.
Finalists in the Urban Habitats design competition, which was a partnership between Habitat for Humanity and the Charlottesville Community Design Center, for trailer park redo. An excellent sign of Habitats commitment to design and community - in my experience working for them, they are fantasic organization, religious or not.
Posted by jmarston at August 4, 2005 10:48 AM