by way of an introduction
greetings,
I think that Peter mentioned this to me when I was trying to explain GIS software to him, and a proejct (grad studio, Princeton) that I was working on this spring focusing on 1-95 and NJ (Ozi, I think that you have NJ all wrong, I'm from the West myself, Seattle, but I have come to appreciate the really wonderful geographic and (no irony intended here) infrastructural beauty of at least some parts of NJ and if you want to come down for a visit sometime I'll try to to show you some...)
It's funny, looking over your posts from earlier, I was driving down the Alaskan Way Viaduct yesterday, coming North from down past the (horrific, redundant) new stadiums, marveling at what an incredible way of seeing downtown Seattle it offered. Totally new to me (that specific experience) and I lived here pretty much until college.
I'll try to post a little more of an introduction later, just wanted to say hello.
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Agreed on Viaduct. There are five plans on the table for replacing it, and only one of them is to rebuild. As a child I particularly enjoyed the elevated pedestrian underpass from the ferry terminal down to First Ave. You could stand there and hear and feel the cars racing overhead.
yes, NJ does deserve some credit: it's the first urban environment to get me lost in several years. things just work differently there and suddenly it doesn't matter how good you are at navigating the NYC subway/bus/rail system. (oddly enough, experience in that system appears to be perfectly transferable to the Denver mass transit system, provided one understands that the bus never comes and isn't going to come...)
anyway. yeah, a visit to NJ! maybe we should set up a Philly-to-NYC walk -- compass-guided (or GIS) -- living off the land, as you find it -- etc.
ha ha ha
http://www.thestranger.com/2004-07-01/city2.html
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