WTF is platform building?
What is platform building? It’s when you put buildings over railroads and highways. On platforms:
Earlier this century, urban planner Robert Moses did what he thought necessary for New York City’s growth, including building highways that displaced homes and ripped apart neighborhoods.
Now, as a space-starved city looks for places to put more housing, a construction concept called “platform building” may be gluing the city back together.
A major part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to make room for some 1 million new city residents in the next two decades, for example, is to develop air space by building on gigantic platforms constructed over the city’s highways and rail yards.
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