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Legion, funny you say that about Queens. I made a wrong turn driving back into the City from upstate and got off on Queens Boulevard, I believe, thinking it was a main road and that I should be able to navigate from there. Not a chance. I got hopelessly lost.
Arkady,
I do love the way Manhattan is laid out.
I only get confused with Avenue of the Americas and Madison,
never know which is which.
Queens is a nightmare though. Don’t get lost in there without a map!
Legion – I remember reading about the building of Brasilia in My Weekly Reader when I was in 6th grade – many of the projections of living in the future that you see in mid-century magazines. As I understand it, the city is pretty sterile – DC had ghettos almost from the get-go.
Mind you, last week marked the 200th anniv. of the mapping of the City of NY – i.e. laying out the grid above 14th St. so it’s pretty new fangled & miraculous too as opposed to moving Rome, London, Paris, etc. into today’s world.
DeLepp, some Brazilian guys — a Sugarcane/ ethanol industry group I know — used to “vent” to me about the Japanese ethanol study delegations which descended upon them in incessant waves. They complained that all they did was answer the same Japanese questions over an over again for years. They finally hired a Japanese-Brazilian to handle all these visits.
I see what you are saying.
All the city planners mentioned had to deal with existing layouts.
I would like to, one day, visit Brasilia to see how a modern city could be laid out on the foundations of what was learned over the past few centuries.
I understand Oscar Niemeyer was pretty much the visionary behind the city.
slopefarm,
agree, a tragedy on the scale of Titanic and Slocum.
Legion, funny you say that about Queens. I made a wrong turn driving back into the City from upstate and got off on Queens Boulevard, I believe, thinking it was a main road and that I should be able to navigate from there. Not a chance. I got hopelessly lost.
WTF?! Mr. B reposted the survey . . . and deleted the comments. > > >
Arkady,
I do love the way Manhattan is laid out.
I only get confused with Avenue of the Americas and Madison,
never know which is which.
Queens is a nightmare though. Don’t get lost in there without a map!
Arkady, I’ve read and heard the same things about Brasilia. (And, I seem to recall My Weekly Reader, too.)
Bxgrl – It’s the bio labs for NYU – a friend of mine worked there. There are remembrances there.
Legion – I remember reading about the building of Brasilia in My Weekly Reader when I was in 6th grade – many of the projections of living in the future that you see in mid-century magazines. As I understand it, the city is pretty sterile – DC had ghettos almost from the get-go.
Mind you, last week marked the 200th anniv. of the mapping of the City of NY – i.e. laying out the grid above 14th St. so it’s pretty new fangled & miraculous too as opposed to moving Rome, London, Paris, etc. into today’s world.
The building the fire was in still stands today also. I was surprised to learn that.
DeLepp, some Brazilian guys — a Sugarcane/ ethanol industry group I know — used to “vent” to me about the Japanese ethanol study delegations which descended upon them in incessant waves. They complained that all they did was answer the same Japanese questions over an over again for years. They finally hired a Japanese-Brazilian to handle all these visits.
Arkady,
I see what you are saying.
All the city planners mentioned had to deal with existing layouts.
I would like to, one day, visit Brasilia to see how a modern city could be laid out on the foundations of what was learned over the past few centuries.
I understand Oscar Niemeyer was pretty much the visionary behind the city.
slopefarm,
agree, a tragedy on the scale of Titanic and Slocum.