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New York
Espaces Publics
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New York - High Line : promenade plantée
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NYC - Department of City Planning(DCP)
Association "Project for Public Spaces" (PPS)
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archimonde a écrit:
Mayor Plans to Close Parts of Broadway to Traffic
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/nyreg … .html?_r=1
https://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewtopic … 50#p239450
Mayor Plans to Close Parts of Broadway to Traffic
By WILLIAM NEUMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO
Published: February 25, 2009
The city plans to close several blocks of Broadway to vehicle traffic through Times Square and Herald Square, an experiment that would turn swaths of the Great White Way into pedestrian malls and continue Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s effort to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/nyreg … mp;emc=rss
BROADWAY CARS CAN TAKE A WALK
CITY TO BLOCK TRAFFIC FROM TIMES, HERALD SQUARES
By DAVID SEIFMAN, CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF
Click for photo gallery
The Great White Way will turn into a great walkway.
In a stunning Midtown makeover, Mayor Bloomberg announced today that traffic lanes along Broadway from 42nd to 47th streets and from 33rd to 35th streets will be torn up starting Memorial Day and transformed into pedestrian plazas until at least the end of the year. (...)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02262009/ne … 157028.htm
Sur Curbed :
Mayor's Plan to Ease Times Square Traffic: Ban Cars
Grand Street bike lane? Flatiron plaza? Psh, child's play. The radical rethinking of the city's streets under Mayor Bloomberg may get more radical come Memorial Day, when sections of Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square go car-free. (...)
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L'exemple de ce qui est entrepris au niveau de Madison Square (Flatiron Building) :
Localisation Googlemaps - Madison Square
Flatiron Plaza Marches On
FLATIRON—Work on the Flatiron Plaza, the grand endeavor intended to make Madison Square make sense, marches on. A reader sends in the photo above and writes, "Here's a photo I took just now of paving work taking place in the middle of the street (new pedestrian area) just south of 23rd Street. The tan region is the pedestrian surface, which they are laying in over ordinary street pavement." We can almost feel it coming together. [CurbedWire Inbox] (...)
http://curbed.com/archives/2008/08/20/c … t_shea.php
Madison Square to Actually Make Sense
Thursday, June 12, 2008, by Joey
While we've already mentioned the new pedestrian plaza currently being worked on just north of the Flatiron Building in the confusing clusterfuck of Madison Square, let's satisfy our inner Streetsblog geek and take a closer look at what the Department of Transportation has planned.
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East River Blueway Now Includes Plan for Urban Beach and Storm Surge Barrier
by Yuka Yoneda, 02/20/13
East Siders have been looking forward to the East River Blueway plan to beautify their waterfront for quite some time now, but it seems the project will be more than just a pretty face. Manhattan's borough president, Scott Stringer, recently lauded the Blueway's newly updated design, which now includes a storm-water absorbing wetland and a sandy urban beach. The city had been exploring natural solutions to act as a storm surge barriers for vulnerable areas after the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, and was able to incorporate the wetlands with the help of WXY, the Blueway's lead architects and planners.
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