Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads:
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- • Understanding London’s underground railway infrastructure (NathanDarroch)
- • Phone data saves London’s transport from chaos (Wired)
- • Walking high on other side of tracks (Times £)
- • The case for reopening Edinburgh’s lost circle line (CityMetric)
- • Boston is repurposing classic parking garages (Forbes)
- • The pedestrian strikes back (NYTimes)
- • Philly rallies to save 30th St station flipboard (CityLab)
- • Rebirth of Cincinnati’s Art Deco Union Terminal (CincyRefined)
- • Evolution of Sydney’s tram network (Transportist)
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Cincinnati link doesn’t seem to be working for me.
The Nathan Darroch article is uterly fascinating & is high;y recommended.
He, as a professional is going on about the things that often excite both my historical & present interests, which should (IHMO) be much better understood by many people.
Politicians & city “planners” especially!
Cheers for the heads up. Link went dead, so I’ve replaced it with a different article. LBM
Cincinnati’s Union Terminal is a genuinely astonishing building. It was designed and constructed towards the end of what one historian called the “megalomaniac period” of station design in America. It is especially notable as it is a paean to Art Deco, arguably the biggest and best of that period. Most of the other great stations or terminals were built somewhat earlier in the Beaux Arts form (Grand Central) or still earlier in neo Romanesque etc such as St Louis. I regret I have never seen it in the flesh but I do possess lovely a book on the station. It was only completed in 1933 and had a relatively short life before decline occurred.