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Posted by Michael549 on Sat Apr 29 11:46:44 2017, in response to Re: East 180th Street (4/10/17), posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Apr 29 08:24:29 2017. Parkchester was built in the 1920's as a private housing development complex and was a major break-away from the zoning rules and city street grid of its time. The buildings upon closer inspection have a variety of architectural features meant to house large groups of people without encountering a great deal of car traffic with interior parks, playgrounds, shopping, etc.The earliest "city housing project" in the nation - the First Houses was NOT BUILT until the 1930's under very different circumstances. Where the fiscally minded tended to use similar building plans, cookie cutter designs and little architectural ornamentation. In the larger public housing developments the ideas of limiting traffic and providing interior parks and some cultural institutions were kept, while commercial places were eliminated. Plenty of folks mistake places like Cooper Village, Stuyvesant City, Parkchester, etc. and lump then with "city housing projects" - simply because they are "basic brick apartment buildings" without understanding the histories and circumstances of the various buildings. Today folks talk about wanting "transit oriented development" and "walk-able shopping streets" while "casting shade" upon the lessons learned before. Some subjects require more than 140 characters to understand! Mike |
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