“Towers in a Park:” an urban planning technique in which large skyscrapers are built in the middle of huge green spaces which are then separated by roads
Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town is a housing development on Manhattan’s lower east side that uses this particular urban planning template.
Is there a greater ecological diversity of animals to be found in this “Towers in a Park” urban complex than in a traditional network of city blocks?
Stuyvesant town seems little more natural than if you simply dumped a thin layer of mulch and grass over a ten-by-five city block area
Our hypothesis is that while people . may be drawn to this more natural-seeming living, a greater amount of ecological diversity will not be found in Stuyvesant town than in an adjacent area of standard city blocks
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/Biodiversity-Poster-slide-1.pdf
David Meretzky, Stephen Valeri
Meehan, Nadler
Hunter College
Parks, Skyscrapers
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