Grahame Shane
Brian Mc. Grath
Victoria Benatar
STUDENT PROBES
East and Central Harlem communities' representatives proposed an "ART'S CORRIDOR", along Central Park North (110th str.) Fifth Ave,(from 110th str. to 106th str.) and 106th str. (from Fifth to Lexington Ave) aiming at the revitalization of their neighborhoods.
From the perspective of the metropolitan city, improving the streets around Central Park, by programing spaces for the arts, is a very feasible senario, that co-operates with the existing Museum Mile. However dealing with the mask that surrounds Central Park, does not necessarily benefit the neighborhoods beneath...
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The "streams" that consist the pedestrian network are being transformed according to the conditions of the blocks that they go through. In the study case of the eastern "stream" between 5th and 6th avenue there are three different block cases-types: - the very dense traditional block next to the park,(the mask) - the modern movement block of the housing projects - devastated full of empty lots block. |