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The network structure of Radburn, New Jersey exemplifies the concept of street hierarchy of contemporary districts. (The shaded area was not built.) The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas.
A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban or suburban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone ...
1 Wall Street; AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company; Trinity Church; Equitable Building; Trinity and United States Realty Buildings; Equitable Life Building; Marine Midland Building; Zuccotti Park; One Liberty Plaza; Fulton Center; Corbin Building; American Surety Building; 195 Broadway; Astor House; St. Paul's Chapel; 222 Broadway ...
The structure above Broadway and Fulton Street is now part of the BMT Jamaica Line. The original structure east of Alabama Avenue in East New York still exists, although it has been rebuilt to support subway cars, which are heavier than the former elevated cars. The remaining elevated structure is the oldest such structure in the subway system.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, two skyscrapers were completed at the western end of Stone Street, although neither structure had its main address on the street. The 32-story structure at 2 Broadway was completed in 1959 at the northeastern corner of Stone and Whitehall Streets, [68] while the 23-story structure at 1 Whitehall Street was ...
Its cellular structure includes all the primary land uses of a neighborhood and has for that reason been called fractal. [19] Its street configuration presages modern traffic calming techniques applied to uniform grids where certain selected streets become discontinuous or narrow, thus discouraging through traffic.
The eastern structure at 215 East 49th Street has a slightly projecting center bay, as well as a ground-floor shop that contains a rear entrance into the yard proper. [ 12 ] [ 16 ] These structures had been constructed in the 19th century as brownstone townhouses, but they were refaced with limestone and brick when Amster renovated the ...
This leaves traces that serve to structure subsequent building activity and provide opportunities and constraints for city-building processes, such as land subdivision, infrastructure development, or building construction. Articulating and analysing the logic of these traces is the central question of urban morphology.