Comments on: reading the infrastructural city: chapter five index

By: rob

rob — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:42:59 +0000

This in particular it seems to me could be considered within the “hack” typology that we have been discussing.

Yes. In a mature infrastructural city — like Los Angeles (as opposed to, say, Shenzhen) — opportunities to build new infrastructures are likely to almost always be “hack”-ing opportunities. (Non-”hack”‘s, like maybe Boston’s Big Dig, will be prohibitively expensive, both in terms of capital and political will.)

By: namhenderson

namhenderson — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:35:50 +0000

The thing I found most interesting about Jarrett Walker’s piece is this graph.
Sooner or later, most of these boulevards will need to give over two lanes to crowded and efficient transit services, which will move far more people per hour than car lanes do.

This in particular it seems to me could be considered within the “hack” typology that we have been discussing.
Especially if as opposed to new light rail or some other sort of capital intensive project, the lanes were turned into BRT or pedestrian/bicyclist etc through-ways. Or maybe some sort of combo of all three like I have seen in some other cities do.

I think you guys have pondered this before but it seems to suggest there that are certain cities which by the very nature/layout of their form/physical structures, are more plausible sites of hacking.

By: additional traffic – mammoth // building nothing out of something

additional traffic – mammoth // building nothing out of something — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:26:01 +0000

[...] I doubt anyone will notice the updates unless I point to them, I’ve added a few things to the chapter five (“Blocking All Lanes: Traffic”) index below. To further ease your reading experience, the links added are: contributions to the traffic [...]

By: rholmes

rholmes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:23:53 +0000

Thanks, all!

By: Peter Sigrist

Peter Sigrist — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:46:42 +0000

Congratulations, Rob! I’m looking forward to catching up on the Infrastructural City posts. Stay well. More soon.

By: Barry Lehrman

Barry Lehrman — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:35:38 +0000

very cute kid, congrats rob. Hope you all are doing well.

Got a late contribution to include in the chapter 5 index:

http://infrascapedesign.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/strobecom/

By: Mason

Mason — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:22:53 +0000

congrats on baby arrival, rob! a complex little design/build project in its own right.