My commute is one of seeing a city while moving along its edge – not as arriving to the city, or walking away – but riding the border between the chaos and the calm. The river’s revival is well chronicled and the primary reason for its success is what has been developed along its edges.
Efforts like these protected bike lanes will help the streets function more effectively for its users, but more importantly enable a wider range of people to feel comfortable riding in the city. Cycling in New York City is currently regulated to a few small groups. If the city is hoping to create a culture that is similar to that of Portland, Seattle and hopefully Copenhagen, then the city is going to have to undertake construction and educational actions to help the average profile of the cyclist match the average profile of the New Yorker.
The city, traditionally the most complex and informative portion of the image, becomes the most enigmatic and diffused…the snow-covered ground plane, the most simple and abstract in its reality, now the most precisely represented.
The greatest food in the world may be Italian or Japanese, but New York has as good Italian and Japanese as the do in Italy and Japan. Same for France, China and California.
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