Mannahatta

awesome

yah

http://www.wcs.org/media/image/upperwestside21.jpg

ps lol

yeah, this is discussed a bit in this book i'm reading

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"

neat

yeah, also, obviously this is what it would look like had it not been built up - just look upstate for inspiration, no?

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.

yeah, this is discussed a bit in this book i'm reading

no it isn't

or, at least, depopulated future manhattan is not the same thing

gabbneb do you wear a tophat, monocle, and huge ass neck corset?

on weekends he wears sweatpants.

haha, hstencil has good recall, but no i don't actually wear sweatpants very often. and no, sanskrit, i only wear fattushis.

no it isn't

-- gabbneb, Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

or, at least, depopulated future manhattan is not the same thing

-- gabbneb, Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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?

what do you think? :) my bad!

how do you like that book kenan?

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.

so uh recommended? is the prose too full-blooded? cause it sounds pretty awesome.

No, it's great! Yeah, recommended.

i think i will read this

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."