{"id":3545,"date":"2010-08-26T18:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2010-08-26T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T01:01:18","slug":"roosevelt-pneumatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/08\/roosevelt-pneumatic\/","title":{"rendered":"roosevelt pneumatic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n[Collection containers sit in the Roosevelt Island pneumatic system; photograph by Jonathan Snyder for Wired.com]<\/em><\/p>\n

Wired<\/em>‘s Gadget Lab tours<\/a> the Roosevelt Island pneumatic trash collection system:<\/p>\n

In 1969, New York City granted the state a 99-year lease to develop the island, and the planning began. Ideas for the island included housing for United Nations workers, housing for doctors and nurses, one big park, a nuclear power plant, the New York Aquarium, an Egyptian museum, theaters, promenades, a new home for the bodies in Brooklyn and Queens cemeteries, casinos and a canal that would cut the island in half.<\/p>\n

Eventually, planners settled on a utopian, car-free residential community for 20,000 New Yorkers. The narrow streets wouldn\u2019t be fit for traffic, or for garbage collection, so a pneumatic trash system became part of the plans. In 1973, the island was dubbed Roosevelt, and construction of the system and the first residential towers was finished in 1975…<\/p>\n

…A network of 20-inch tubes takes garbage from the island\u2019s 16 residential towers, collecting from every floor, to a central collection point where it is compacted and trucked off the island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch the entire slideshow<\/a> at Wired<\/em>.<\/p>\n

More: Fast Trash<\/a> was a recent exhibition about the same system, which argued “that service infrastructure plays a crucial role in cities and is even capable of inspiring the collective imagination”; watch a short film, “Nature Abhors a Vacuum”<\/a>, at the Fast Trash website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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