Re: [in-enaction] vision plans: Manhattan: For the City, 100-Year Makeovers

Imagine a Manhattan given over to a new Central Park, with a crystalline 
city floating above it.

The Urban Research Group team assembled its model in Grand Central Terminal.

Or a series of self-propelled islands floating around Manhattan, docking 
as needed and providing extra space for concerts and green markets (or 
cordoning off visiting dignitaries so that their caravans don’t disrupt 
traffic).

Or that the populations of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx 
have been moved into Manhattan and stacked 65 stories high, so that 
those four boroughs could be used purely as green space.

These were among the 10 radical, sometimes quirky, visions of New York 
100 years from now, presented by teams of architects and engineers in a 
competition that ended on Thursday.

Organized in connection with “Engineering an Empire,” a History Channel 
series that examines the achievements of ancient civilizations, the 
competition called for each team to design a 22nd-century “City of the 
Future” for a prize of $10,000. Similar competitions are to be held in 
Chicago on Nov. 17 and in Los Angeles on Dec. 8. A national champion 
will ultimately be selected from among the three winning teams and 
awarded another $10,000.

cont'd....
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/arts/design/04tomo.html?hp&ex=1162616400&en=0fd5d45444d83b58&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Architexturez. wrote:
> Demographers say that New York will grow by a million residents within 
> the next 25 years, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wants to plan for 
> them. An as-yet unreleased report commissioned by Deputy Mayor Daniel 
> Doctoroff makes some interesting recommendations—like decking over the 
> Sunnyside yards and parts of the Brooklyn-Queens expressway— but doesn’t 
> get into the nitty gritty of who might actually pay for them. Is the 
> report, Visions for New York City, really that, or is it a map for the 
> next generation of developers? By William Menking and Anne Guiney. 
> Photography by M. E. Smith.
>
> cont'd...
> http://archpaper.com/features/2006_17_nine_million.htm
>
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