everything flows » architecture http://www.lukerodgers.ca a celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:12:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Smart suburb planning in NYC, 100 years ago http://www.lukerodgers.ca/2009/08/smart-suburb-planning-in-nyc-100-years-ago/ http://www.lukerodgers.ca/2009/08/smart-suburb-planning-in-nyc-100-years-ago/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30:07 +0000 Luke Rodgers http://www.lukerodgers.ca/?p=615 I recently moved to New York City (Brooklyn, to be specific) and in an interesting twist came across a Slate magazine slideshow  (Forest Hills Gardens) via a tweet from one of my favourite Toronto-based publications, Spacing magazine. The article/photo essay details the principles enacted by turn of the 19th-century Forest Hills Gardens community, a suburb 20 minutes from Manhattan that is transit-oriented, walkable, and features mixed-use zoning and a variety of single-family dwellings, from attached to freestanding.

At nearly $1,000,000 for one of the less flamboyant homes, though, I doubt that this community is still living up to its intention of providing options for low-income buyers.

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