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MATTHEW SLUTSKY
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Book: Straphanger
Author: Taras Grescoe
P: 36
Online: http://tinyurl.com/7ayzlp4
While the subway reduced population density in Manhattan, it also intensified downtown commercial development. “The most spectacular consequence of the subway,” observed William Parsons, its chief engineer, “has been the skyscraper.” Without it, neither the Chrysler Building nor Rockefeller Center would exist: the horizontal technology of transit, combined with a nineteenth-century breakthrough in vertical transportation—the safety elevator, first installed in a five-story building on Broadway in 1857—made closely spaced skyscrapers truly practical. The underground railway enabled the astonishingly rapid shift of Manhattan’s commercial center of gravity from Wall Street to Midtown, as Times Square and Grand Central were stitched together by the Forty-second Street Shuttle. Along with the federally funded irrigation system that built Los Angeles, the New York subway is considered the single greatest improvement to urban real estate ever undertaken.
 
 
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“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
-Jane Jacobs
 
 
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
-Mies van der Rohe
Contradiction is Evolution.
-Warren (me)
 
 
 
 
 

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