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elp steve ross or maybe stephen roth i get them mixed up build that pile of unsustainable glass towers that make you feel like you re in dubai mumbai or shanghai dubai on hudson they call it whatever you call it it s not new york these things matter we shape our buildings thereafter they shape us winston churchill famously said it s the most quoted line in architecture because it s true neuroscientists psychologists and sociologists confirm this architecture matters cities and the buildings and streets and squares that make them are among the greatest achievements of humanity we want to pass them on to our descendants we don t want to pass on inhumanly scaled energy hog glass towers that increase climate change and make the world worse now and in the future new yorkers love new york city our city needs buildings like the one on this block music street the block houses hundreds of residents and thousands of workers new yorkers like eugene sinigliano and steve marshall live and work and work here so i close with a quote i got from today s organizer john mudd it s my new favorite quote the question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from the question of what kind of people we want to be what kinds of social relations we seek what relations to nature we cherish what style of life we desire or what aesthetic values we hold david harvey rebel cities video of short presentations by layla law gisiko eugene sinigliano george calderaro john massengale tom lurka and sam turvey posted in architecture beauty culture current good kind live from new york new urbanism new york urbanism comments off on my comments at the midtown south social equity and music festival me on the on cities podcast by john massengale posted on august 29 2023 click here to open in apple podcasts posted in architecture beauty culture good kind new urbanism new york personal slow streets street design urbanism walkability comments off on me on the on cities podcast my muck rack by john massengale posted on august 29 2023 muck rack automatically creates lists of articles written by individuals like me to this i ve added some articles about me and reviews of books i ve written my muck rack posted in architecture current good kind news reviews personal urbanism comments off on my muck rack with rhetoric the new york apartment house by john massengale posted on march 23 2023 when i was in graduate school i was one of the editors of via iv culture and the social vision i helped robert a m stern write new york 1900 metropolitan architecture and urbanism 1890 1915 my summer job turned into a five year journey it turned out that bob thought it would be good and a good test for me to write the first draft of the article from notes he had made and source material his columbia students had collected over the years in a new york housing seminar he taught it s a short history of the new york apartment house with a particular focus on duplex apartments and the courtyard building here s a scan of the article via iv culture and the social vision hewitt ma kracauer b massengale j mcdonough m 1 1 1980 asin b005xs6de6 pp 77 111 mit press upenn gsfa posted in comments off on with rhetoric the new york apartment house a short discussion of residential building heights in new york city by john massengale posted on march 23 2023 note the following was written for the tenth anniversary edition of street design the secret to great cities and towns where it will appear in a shorter version this version still needs some editing for its new context a related essay from street design is location location location affordable housing and urban form in manhattan willow street brooklyn new york all of new york s great residential neighborhoods were built with height limits one reason brownstone brooklyn is more popular than many manhattan neighborhoods is that there is the streets are more open to the sky and get more light compare this view to the image of flatbush avenue in location location location https blog massengale com 2023 03 23 qandq the subject of height limits is relevant in any discussion of street design and urban design while discussing east 70th street let s briefly look at the planning regulations and building laws that contributed to the design of the most beautiful block in new york the towers of the new york city skyline are world famous but few stop to think that the tall towers were mainly office buildings until the 19th century practicality limited buildings of all types to six or seven stories because climbing to the top of taller buildings was too difficult as an everyday activity by the 1870s increasing use of safety elevators and steel frame construction 1 meant that new office buildings could be as tall as eight to ten stories new yorkers began to worry about the effect that tall residential buildings might have in residential neighborhoods common law traditions suggested that homeowners had a right to the sunlight that would naturally reach their land 2 many residents of new york feared the shadows from tall buildings in the 1880s they commissioned studies of the high building question and asked the city and the state to impose a moratorium on tall buildings the new york state legislature responded in 1885 with a bill limiting the heights of residential buildings in new york to 70 feet on side streets and narrow streets and 80 feet on avenues and wide streets 3 interestingly 70 feet was the same number ancient rome used in the year 64 ad 4 while georges eugène haussmann set lower height limits in paris in 1859 haussmannian boulevards 20 meters wide were lined with grand apartment houses 20 meters tall 65 ½ feet buildings on narrower streets were limited to 57 ½ feet a series of tenement house acts building laws and fire laws regulated the design and construction of residential buildings with multiple dwellings after 1867 with the rise of new technology and safety elevators new york city raised residential building heights to 1½ times the street width or 150 feet whichever was less as mentioned above in height density quality quantity but not until thirty one years after new york first limited the height of residential buildings did the city famously pass america s first zoning in 1916 similarly regulating non residential buildings continue reading posted in architecture beauty classical culture current good kind historic preservation local new urbanism new york pedestrian street design urbanism walkability yimby nimby comments off on a short discussion of residential building heights in new york city location location location affordable housing and urban form in manhattan by john massengale posted on march 23 2023 note the following was written for the tenth anniversary edition of street design the secret to great cities and towns where it will appear in a shorter version this version still needs a little editing for its new context part 2 is another essay a short discussion of residential building heights in new york city west 74th street in manhattan looking towards central park and the san remo apartments since we wrote the first edition of street design frequent discussions about building heights and population density have become common across america affordable housing for all is an important issue in many places and there is a large and well funded yimby movement that argues all zoning and height limits are restrictive regulations that make it more difficult and expensive to build if cities towns and suburbs would just let developers build what they want where they want the yimby argument says we would have all the affordable housing we need the authors of street design think the truth is more complicated and nuanced here is a brief discussion of some of the reasons why we think that and how the topic is closely related to street design in the original discussion of east 70th street we wrote that for thousands of years good traditional streets frequently had a width to height ratio of 1 to 1 or 1 to 1½ page tktk we did not say that for many years new york city limited residential building heights to 1½ times the width of the street see a short discussion of residential building heights in new york page tktk the physical character of the great residential neighborhoods like the upper east side and harlem come from that time and those limits today the tallest supertall apartment tower on the new billionaires row in midtown manhattan is 15 5 times as high as fifty seventh street is wide and 25 8 times as tall as the with of 58th street on the north side of the building the residential tower is also 300 feet taller than the empire state building which was the tallest building in the world from the time it was built in 1931 until the first world trade center tower passed it in 1971 but new yorkers never wanted to live in the empire state building or the world trade center we talk about some of the reasons for that in the discussion of residential building heights in new york page tktk in the death and life of great american cities jane jacobs discusses the kind of problem that building and maintaining a healthy city is calling it a problem in handling organized complexity en29 among the many interrelated issues a successful business district with tall office towers has a different character than a neighborhood where people want to live the yimby discussion on the other hand uses simplified talking points that emphasize one simple numeric quantity at a time either building height population density the number of new building permits or the residential unit count focusing on individual numbers one at a time erodes the quality of cities and city life paraphrasing what jacobs said about looking at street traffic in terms of pedestrians versus cars page tktk reducing building design to simply height or unit count is to go about the problem from the wrong end tktk change en30 urbanists must be generalists balancing social economic environmental transportation and health issues with urban form and placemaking if not specialists like traffic engineers and luxury housing developers can erode cities and their quality of life density can be reduced to a number but that number does not tell us what a place is like east 70th street is a part of the upper east side of manhattan which has over 100 000 people per square mile that makes it one of the three or four densest residential neighborhoods in the western world more than twice as dense as the average neighborhood in paris builders achieved that density 100 years ago with an average building height under 100 feet tall and without an apartment building taller than 150 feet see a short discussion of residential building heights in manhattan pages tktk and as we have seen there are other qualities that make some blocks better than others with almost identical dimensions questions about urban form are essential for street designers the height of the buildings on east 70th street affects what the space between the buildings feels like how the buildings enclose the street and how they meet the street the qualities that make east 70th street feel good are missing in the photo of new brooklyn figure 1 27 ironically on a street in the part of the borough widely known as brownstone brooklyn the neighborhoods surrounding this section of flatbush avenue have the greatest collection of rowhouse streets in america they create neighborhoods that are in great demand figure 1 28 jane jacobs was right when she observed that a greater variety of residential building types could have made the neighborhoods even better page tktk but these new apartment towers don t do that figure 1 27 shows what new urbanists call density without urbanism tktk notes tktk add to en30 deleted location location location real estate developers and investors agree that the three most important factors in determining the value of a property or building are location location and location logically the real estate market in manhattan kansas is very different than the market on manhattan island yet yimbys argue that the reason so many cannot afford a good place to live is the same everywhere regardless of location we don t have enough housing which is true and if we would just get out of the way of the market it would provide housing for all let s look at some of the reasons why we disagree with the second part of the argument first why should we expect the market to provide affordable housing for all developers are not required to be philanthropists or altruists they are business people in business to make money they respond to the local market they typically look for the highest profits which in most of america today means luxury housing whether that means mansions mcmansions in the suburbs developed by production builders or super luxury supertalls like billionaires row in manhattan en31 building low income housing produces lower profits or no profit so few developers build that and despite the filter or trickle down argument no matter how many large expensive condominiums new york city developers build as an investment vehicle for the global 1 the supply will not trickle down to lower the rent on apartments for the poor en32 for a variety of reasons including the growing problem of income inequality relying on the market to meet the needs of all has damaged our cities and towns with simplistic solutions that ignore the kind of problem a city is location location location means that different markets have different conditions different problems and different solutions where is housing cheap where is land cheap where can buyers drive till they qualify not in new york or los angeles and don t forget the high cost of owning and operating cars en33 where is the economy strong providing good jobs where do buyers want to live the covid pandemic changed some of that what about income inequality where can a developer build houses or apartments that the average local buyer can afford and will there be enough profit at that location are the global 1 or the global 5 driving up prices are hedge funds buying up all the starter homes that s a real thing en34 simply removing zoning will not solve the problem although that probably is part of the solution in many places in america which is primarily zoned for single family houses in unwalkable sprawl there is no question that we need more housing the question is how to get housing that 80 of americans can afford some of those questions do not directly involve street design but in the future most affordable housing will be built in walkable cities and towns owning and operating a car is expensive not to mention bad for the planet the center for neighborhood technology s housing and affordability index underlines just how expensive that is with data that shows combined housing and transportation costs expensive cities where one can live without owning a car frequently have lower overall combined costs for hous...