Pierwsze zdjęcie stało się bardzo popularne w internecie, w niektórych kręgach stało się niemal memem.

Za każdym razem, gdy to zdjęcie jest publikowane zawsze (serio, za każdym razem) jest dyskusja jak to pierwsze zdjęcie z 2009 wygląda super, bo toczy się tam życie i są biznesy a na ostatnim z 2023 już wszystkie biznesy poupadały i nic tam nie ma.

Postanowiłem tą szerzącą się dezinformację sprostować i wybrałem się tam dzisiaj na przejażdżkę rowerową, porobić zdjęcia jak to "martwe" miejsce faktycznie wygląda.

Wszystkie zdjęcia zostały zrobione na odcinku tych ~300m, zgodnie z załączoną mapką od prawej do lewej.

Chciałem też pokazać, że jest tam nadal wjazd samochodami, są parkingi, ale auto jest tam takim intruzem, że nie widziałem nigdy nikogo jadącego szybciej niż piesi.

Miłego zwiedzania ;)

For those who don’t know, Downtown Brooklyn is very built up with a good amount of density and high rise buildings. Most of the neighborhoods surrounding it are also highly walkable and most likely what you think of when you imagine “Brooklyn”.

But downtown Brooklyn itself sucks

There is no culture, no charm, no unique energy, and hardly any people on the street. I hope that with more infill in years to come a “character” might emerge. But right now it feels like one of the largest built urban conglomerations to spring up to verticality in the last few years has ended up as a soulless maze of glass boxes not much better than most car sprawl stroad suburbs. That’s despite being well connected to mass transit in the most walkable city in the US.

So what went wrong?

What lessons can developers and city planners learn to make sure we don’t repeat this mistake again? Hard to sell density and walkable urbanism when even NYC seems to struggle with getting it right.

(Current street vs plan!) I saw these plans for a major road in this city and it looks amazing (except three lanes still feels like too much for a street meant to be the heart of the city)

Says in India, Art Deco is architecture of the common man (as compared to displays of power in America) vs. neo-Gothic/neo-Classical structures

Also says that the rise of gated communities, the lack of integration with Navi Mumbai is hurting Mumbai's growth. Explains why it's impossible for India to create it's own national architectural style

Thoughts?

We are a doing like 2 neighborhood landscape design And honestly.. ı dont even like this design a bit bruh. But its teacher things( she likes amorphous they said 🫩). For me , this many gated communities ruin the citys scape. This looks like enlarged tourism gated communities like mugla from turkey rather than a random city. Instead of being 0-0 to the sidewalks , every building scattered into the site. Everything is far away and potentially closes the opportunities of cities growing. Lets say you want a build a huge hospital. Where can you build it ? You have to demolish entire community to make up a place for it. But when you do 0-0 to the road , there are huge area left for greater projects. Also project looks like extremely alone. And you cant make car free shopping places like you know..