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A project for 4 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT 5 HEALTH CARE SOME CONVERSATIONS ARE MEANT TO BE CONTINUED. Crain’s 6 WHO OWNS THE BLOCK published a cover story in the fall exploring the fundamen- 7 REAL ESTATE Film and TV tal challenge facing our city: preparing for a population of tax credit is 9 million New Yorkers. A day later, on Nov. 1, we hosted a 8 ASKED & ANSWERED a tale of two New Yorks morning-long conference on the subject keynoted by Mayor 9 ENTERTAINMENT Bill de Blasio that featured a panel composed of the head of 10 VIEWPOINTS each city transportation agency. Apparently we were just 11 THE LIST getting started. Thursday at the Center for Architecture, the engineering and architectural firms whose ideas for grow- FEATURES ing the city’s housing and infrastructure were published 12 CATERING TO THE STARS in our 9 Million New Yorkers issue gathered for wine, Do we need a 14 BUYERS’ REMORSE cheese and PechaKucha. Wait, PechaKucha? Don’t worry, Robert Moses 16 UBER UNDER I had to look that one up too. The word refers to a Japa- nese solution to endlessly long PowerPoint presentations: or can the visions 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each. That format gave of the Pecha­- P. 20 the urban designers a chance to expound on their ideas, Kucha planners ERIN BRIED despite the snowstorm that rolled in earlier in the day. Jeffrey Raven, an architect who helped organize the event take root? through the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, later described what we had started as a “project for New York City.” The ideas themselves varied from the whimsical repurposing of space under elevated tracks to a subway extension to Red Hook that would lead to as many as 45,000 apartments. Crain’s encouraged the designers to think beyond 20 GOTHAM GIGS because the so-called outer boroughs will be central to the city’s ability to accom- 21 SNAPS modate another 450,000 residents. The designers agreed. “We’re moving away from 22 FOR THE RECORD the centric megacity and heading to a more distributive one,” said Oliver Schaper of Gensler, which envisioned using existing tracks—some now abandoned—to 23 PHOTO FINISH create more public transit connecting far-flung neighborhoods outside Manhattan. The moderator of the post-PechaKucha discussion, John Shapiro, chairman of the Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, synthe- sized the disparate elements. What they all shared, Shapiro said, was an intention to respect the communities already in place. “And that is the new normal,” he said. When we wrote about the challenge of preparing for 9 million New Yorkers, we also asked whether New York needed another super builder like Robert Moses, who knew how to pull the levers of power to push through big, expensive projects— often at the expense of the neighborhoods affected by them. But can New York meet ON THE COVER the demand of its population growth by empowering the PechaKucha planners, PHOTO: BUCK ENNIS meeting in klatches throughout the city, to implement their ideas of tomorrow? I don’t know the answer, but I’m looking forward to continuing the conversation.

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