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Janine Shea

NYC Zoning - Zoning Tools - 0 views

  • Public Access Requirements In all districts, residential, commercial and community facility developments on waterfront zoning lots (except for residential uses in low-density residence districts, heavy commercial and industrial uses in Use Groups 16, 17 and 18, and certain city infrastructure facilities, such as airports) are required to provide and maintain public open space at the water’s edge with pedestrian links to upland communities. Public access is also mandated on piers, platforms and floating structures. Water-dependent uses, such as docks for ferries and marinas, are also required to provide waterfront public access areas but are subject to a more flexible standard.
Janine Shea

Privately Owned Public Space - Department of City Planning - 0 views

  • Retail and services: At least 50% of a building’s frontage on a public plaza must be occupied by retail or service establishments allowed under the applicable underlying zoning district. These uses may include neighborhood retail uses such as restaurants, supermarkets and clothing stores. Certain uses that are incompatible with the goal of providing active, enlivening establishments adjacent to the public plaza are prohibited, including offices, wholesale establishments, automobile servicing and showrooms, public parking garages and lots, certain manufacturing establishments, banks, and plumbing, heating, and ventilating equipment showrooms. To ensure that valuable retail spaces are provided, each such establishment is required to be at least 15 feet in depth.
Janine Shea

My Beautiful City: An Architect in Austin: Places: Design Observer - 0 views

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    "Barton Springs. [Photo by Wally Gobetz]"
Janine Shea

Project for Public Spaces | Place Capital: The Shared Wealth that Drives Thriving Commu... - 0 views

  • Place Capital can be defined as the shared wealth (built and natural) of the public realm – and it is increasingly becoming society’s most important means of generating sustainable economic growth for communities.
  • Where Place Capital is strongest people actually compete to contribute to this shared wealth, often changing their behavior in ways that ultimately support the value the place gives to others.
  • Public markets, town commons, and communal wells are early examples of human efforts to create these ‘shared value generators’ in physical places. Today, public places receive relatively little focus and investment above the necessary infrastructure and facilities to support production and distribution.
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  • Why we are failing to generate place capital
  • Along with the homogenizing forces of globalization, the increasingly placeless nature of our built environment tends toward homogeneity and is created with less participation and resources and less creative processes.
  • Placemaking for these purposes can be defined as the empowerment and engagement of the individuals in a community to participate in, understand and contribute to the evolution of the spaces that define that community. Placemaking however, is not a new profession, discipline or field of study, but a growing movement that is bringing out the best of professional knowledge and skills while supporting the communities in connecting to places and taking ownership over the planning process and the emerging results.
  • We are more discerningly and deliberately choosing to identify ourselves with places we feel express our identity, or to use places as a way to express our identity. Now, more than ever, we go were we like.
  • We are left only to be passive consumers.
  • The efforts people undertake to improve places that matter to them – Placemaking
  • Seeing ourselves as co-creators of these places, through our relationships as participants, or as placemakers, elevates our role in society to builders of civilization.
  • With the increasing importance of place comes the prioritization of happiness as a desired outcome and goal of human settlements. Experiencing a comfortable, engaging, sociable place is offering a compelling opportunity for happiness.
  • seeing a sense of place as an increasingly important -even vital- part of our lives.
  • But places are not just defining our communities; they are emerging as the leading factor in defining the global economy and human progress.
  • In light of this inevitable trend, communities need to define themselves as places to attract place building business and business models need be directly responsive to the places and communities they are meant to serve.
Janine Shea

A Chicago Park Learns from New York's High Line - Next City - 0 views

  • corporations like Boeing and Exelon have added $12 million in donations.
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      CORPORATE DONATIONS
  • The High Line has reportedly spurred more than $2 billion in area investment. Though it cost the city $112 million, the park is expected to bring in an estimated $900 million in additional tax revenues over two decades.
  • already New York City’s second-most popular attraction, pulling in nearly 4.5 million visitors in 2012, and ranks among the most influential public works projects of the past half-century, altering our thinking about public space and urban revival.
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  • Funded by a $467,000 grant from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Trust for Public Land
  • Parks are suddenly big business.
  • d Friends of the High Line,
  • reliance on non-municipal funding
  • property values along the park doubled within two years.
  • Since the city rezoned the area in 2005 to encourage development, nearly 30 new building projects have accounted for more than $2 billion in private investment, adding some 12,000 jobs, 2,500 residential units, 1,000 hotel rooms and nearly half a million square feet of new office and gallery space
  • Aping the High Line, then, is not merely about sustainable reuse or new park construction. It’s about sparking investment and increasing a city’s ability to attract new residents.
  • “Cities have really become aware that they are competing with each other for the businesses and well-educated mobile citizens that make cities work,”
  • choose green, walkable cities with great neighborhoods, great parks, good cultural institutions. I think the reason cities are investing in these opportunities is that they are really trying to position themselves to attract these people.”
Janine Shea

Kanye West Comes Out to Support +POOL at Fall Benefit at Brooklyn Bridge Park | Inhabit... - 0 views

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    US Olympian swimmer Conor Dwyer hosted the event, and rapper Kanye West attended in support of the innovative project
Janine Shea

New York's Zany Floating Pool Will Test 10 Potential Locations - Dive-Ins - Curbed NY - 0 views

  • June 23, 2015
  • five years
  • celebrity endorsements.
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  • fundraising efforts
  • swimmable water
  • a feasibility study to assess 10 specific locations across the city where the eventual pool might live.
  • Archie Lee Coates
  • We're analyzing the technical and structural feasibility of various sites in the harbor to understand where exactly is the best place for + POOL. After this testing, we'll be finishing site-specific final designs so we can hand them off to the city, apply for permits, build this thing and finally all swim in the river together.
  • +Pool has some environmental lawyers on the case, pro bon
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