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Friday Reads – 12 August 2022

On By In Friday Reads, Logistics, New York, Pedestrians, Waterways

• Great British Railways: where passengers come last (FT)

• GLA takes over moribund Royal Albert Dock ‘3rd Financial Centre’ (Guardian)

• Berlin’s Tegel Airport transforming into climate-neutral, car-free district (FastCompany)

• NYC Ferry will soon cost only $4 a ride (TimeoutNY)

• New York City is drowning in packages (MITTechReview)

• California high speed rail budget approved, NIMBYs vanquished (Streetsblog)

• ‘Forgiving design’ for drivers endangers pedestrians (StrongTowns)

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7 comments

  1. Not having seen it in real life, I can only judge it from these images and seeing it out of a plane’s window. Seemingly it makes no difference though as the author describes it as a digital render brought to [second] life.
    I wonder if its new rôle as a film set was sparked by the ever more atmospheric Beckton Gas Works sited st the other end of the runway and coincidentally the original example of dockside celluloid collaboration between a capitalist UK/US film co. and another Asian Communist entity in the form of Vietnam’s collapse?

  2. The “GBR” piece for the “FT” is seriously paywalled – any way of actually ennabling us to read it?

  3. @Greg T

    As ever you can get in by going to Google and typing in site:// and then the URL from above. The link to the site will provide access because Google has an “accessToken” that you can discover this way.

    https://www.ft.com/content/856620e5-f67c-498e-a059-de3ed0403ea9?accessToken=zwAAAYKD-GuYkdOFZiDl9nxJjtOgWd4-0EA-qQ.MEYCIQCfiPwlMP9QPHLM209t9-ofqlH6RsA00g_LqeuhTbsTPwIhAK6H2v305cCBD9WcZVI1-h8_GpHIjcHBoyGvM1ShI32X&sharetype=gift&token=ad285fe8-0b96-45e7-a361-2f976782baee

  4. BB
    Just tried that – looked as though it worked & then reverted to paywall.
    Have you left a step out?
    I typed …
    ://https://www.ft.com/content/856620e5-f67c-498e-a059-de3ed0403ea9?accessToken=zwAAAYKD-GuYkdOFZiDl9nxJjtOgWd4-0EA-qQ.MEYCIQCfiPwlMP9QPHLM209t9-ofqlH6RsA00g_LqeuhTbsTPwIhAK6H2v305cCBD9WcZVI1-h8_GpHIjcHBoyGvM1ShI32X&sharetype=gift&token=ad285fe8-0b96-45e7-a361-2f976782baee
    Which looks identical.
    What did I miss?

  6. The article on Royal Albert Dock reminds me of a similar article I read about Canary Wharf during the 1990s recession. There, the author gloated over the empty shopping precinct and the model of the development with unbuilt buildings shown in ghostly white, and no doubt looked forward to it standing eternally empty as a monument to Thatcherite hubris.

  7. The Albert dock’s article is very clumsy, connecting the architect’s use of BIM to the end result, they might not be great buildings, but that’s nothing to do with why.

    ditto for pre-fabrication, of facade panels, this is done in a lot of new buildings.

    Basically empty places are a bit surreal.. the real question is why is it empty and how is that fixed.

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