Comments on: Unbuilt Robert Moses Highway Maps

By: Manhattan Expressways | friskyGeek

Manhattan Expressways | friskyGeek — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:43:37 +0000

[...] someone that has driven in Manhattan, I welcome the idea of a Manhattan Expressway. It literally takes 30 to 45 minutes to drive from one side of Manhattan to the other due to [...]

By: Virtuelle Bauwut « T-City Begleitforschung

Virtuelle Bauwut « T-City Begleitforschung — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:04:19 +0000

[...] anderem Planungen Robert Moses‘ in New York, die nie realisiert worden sind. Schaut man sich die Karten an, versteht man auch warum die Planungen auf Protest bei der New Yorker Bevölkerung [...]

By: Hacking Robert Moses

Hacking Robert Moses — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:41:57 +0000

[...] to document it all. Or so we’d like to think that’s the story behind Vanshnookenraggen brilliant mock-ups of the Lower Manhattan Expressway (above) and Mid-Manhattan Expressway in Google Maps. [...]

By: vanshnookenraggen

vanshnookenraggen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:16:10 +0000

So would I and that’s why I’m working on it.

By: Braulio

Braulio — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:15:49 +0000

I’d love to see a whole series of these things for other urban plans in U.S. cities that were never realized (like the inner beltway in D.C., for example).

By: josh

josh — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:14:36 +0000

Could you share a bit more information about how you created these images? Thanks.

By: vanshnookenraggen

vanshnookenraggen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:46:22 +0000

Totally working on it.

By: martin

martin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:37:10 +0000

Cool and useful. How about one for Brooklyn?

By: vanshnookenraggen

vanshnookenraggen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:30:04 +0000

No this is incorrect. Both parks were there long before any planned expressways and neither were to be used as ROW.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:34:20 +0000

From what I understand, both the Sara Roosevelt park and the St. Gabriels park were planned as right of way for the expressways. I believe St. Gabriels was even bought. Your map has the highways running alongside the parks.

By: Doobybrain.com | Manhattan as Robert Moses would have intended

Doobybrain.com | Manhattan as Robert Moses would have intended — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:41:38 +0000

[...] because of opposition from people along the proposed expressway route, but it didn’t stop Vanshnookenraggen from reconstructing Moses’ plan in Google Maps. [...]

By: Infrastructure: Here’s what Robert Moses would do today « ThinkMarkets

Infrastructure: Here’s what Robert Moses would do today « ThinkMarkets — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:15:09 +0000

[...] to result from the rush to construction. I got them from a very interesting urbanist blog called “vanshnookenraggen.” (Hat tip to Jeremy Sapienza.) They are hypothetical maps of Manhattan with Robert Moses’ [...]

By: Google maps as a historical tool « HTC Experiments

Google maps as a historical tool « HTC Experiments — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:02:30 +0000

[...] I am impressed by these images of Robert Moses highways reconstructed (or I suppose in this case constructed) into google maps. It’s a form of experimental historical practice (we like that), and it always strikes me when someone goes to the effort to produce something like this. The author of these can be found here. [...]

By: Nelson Bradley

Nelson Bradley — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:28:11 +0000

Moses left his mark up here in Buffalo as well, slicing into an Olmstead Park, among other things.

By: Eric Hanson

Eric Hanson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:06:54 +0000

I should add that this same seduction of the planner’s drawing or model also works on people through architect’s drawings, now done magically on computer. A huge cold carbuncle of a building with no street level interest, cheap detailing and brutal scale can look awfully charming on a computer screen or on an easel in a public meeting. The one-touch changes and substitutions made on a computer model can also make a pig’s breakfast of a coherent plan. Beware the words “simple”, “improvement”, and “comprehensive”. I admire artistic genius and big ideas but each new big idea doesn’t make the previous one obsolete.