Alexandros E. Washburn discusses how public space should be preserved and used to improve the quality of urban life.
"To get the practical and theoretical context for the uses of public space, Reis's Sam Truitt spoke with Alexandros E. Washburn, an architect with extensive experience in public space development, including the $785 million relocation of New York's Pennsylvania Station... The reason our cities sprawl so much is that we have adapted transportation infrastructures into something that goes much faster, wrapping us in steel and glass. New York City is really an exception. Cars, really, are secondary to all other forms of transportation -- primarily pedestrian."
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