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How can you study the square and not the adjacent blocks?

8th street should be opened to traffic through tech world. It is a dungeon like barrier preventing meaningful connection to the portrait gallery. Opening it to traffic will make 8th street leasable.

Set through Cy Paumier's talk at the National Building Museum recently. He argued strongly against streetcars running down the middle of streets, as is shown in the drawings for K Street. He showed many successful examples where the streetcars were next to the curb. In these the life of the building edges and sidewalks was enhanced. In locales where the streetcars were in the middle, there was a deadening effect on street life. He's made a vigorous claim, but did not offer reasons for the assessment. It is something that should be explored further.

by Stan on Nov 11, 2010 4:01 pm • link • report