http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/10/01/slideshow_071001_maps?viewall=true#showHeader http://www.wcs.org/mannahatta
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)
awesome
― and what, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)
yah
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.wcs.org/media/image/upperwestside21.jpg
ps lol
yeah, this is discussed a bit in this book i'm reading
― kenan, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)
It's kind of a nice testament to NYC's pro-public-space socialist days that my reaction to the UWS rendering is basically "umm yeah, that is indeed what I imagine it would look like if Riverside Park grew several blocks over into Central Park"
― nabisco, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)
neat
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)
yeah, also, obviously this is what it would look like had it not been built up - just look upstate for inspiration, no?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 01:52 (nineteen years ago)
not much of the hudson valley is old growth, if any at all. it would look significantly different.
and riverside and central parks, lovely as they are, are just as man-made environments as the skyscrapers adjacent to them.
gonna read this article in a bit, looks neat.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 03:31 (nineteen years ago)
no it isn't
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 04:33 (nineteen years ago)
or, at least, depopulated future manhattan is not the same thing
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 04:35 (nineteen years ago)
gabbneb do you wear a tophat, monocle, and huge ass neck corset?
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)
on weekends he wears sweatpants.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 05:04 (nineteen years ago)
haha, hstencil has good recall, but no i don't actually wear sweatpants very often. and no, sanskrit, i only wear fattushis.
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 05:14 (nineteen years ago)
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Dude, the project is discussed. There's a picture from this project. It's used to illustrate the state of wildness that Manhattan will try to return to. Have you read the book?
― kenan, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)
what do you think? :) my bad!
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)
how do you like that book kenan?
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)
It's science-a-licious. (But also obviously speculative.) The prose is pretty full-blooded, considering how dry and gloomy the subject matter might have been.
― kenan, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)
so uh recommended? is the prose too full-blooded? cause it sounds pretty awesome.
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)
No, it's great! Yeah, recommended.
― kenan, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)
i think i will read this
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)
It's important, too, that he never seems to be acting judgmental, or implying that the world would definitely be better off without us in a larger sense. (Though lots of animals would love it.) The tone is just, "This is what would likely happen."
― kenan, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)