Gothamist: Cooling the City, Circa 1934

pete

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:17:29 -0500

Considering how they DON'T plow the streets here in Ft Wayne, why not invent some kind of radiant heating system for city streets? Its been invented, except there is a pretty bad stigma against nuclear power in the USA. http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/23/dubious-1980s-in-home-nuclear-reactor-ad-from-japan/comments/5589538/ My opinion for looking the streets is, its time to make all the sidewalks of NYC one big underground city, just enclose all the sidewalks with glass ceilings and glass walls. That way you can walk from your apartment to work in your PJs in January. NYC is sorely in need of a underground city, the closest NYC has is rockafeller center, but thats a joke in size compared to any other city. This is what should have been done many years ago. http://secondavenuesagas.com/2008/02/21/planning-for-a-second-ave-subway-75-years-ago/

Karen

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:57:11 -0500

Considering how they DON'T plow the streets here in Ft Wayne, why not invent some kind of radiant heating system for city streets?

bxGagger

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:57:21 -0500

i'm all up for pennies in assholes. i do it long time. call me 1900-EMPERORS (we might be busy servicing members of government, so leave a message, we'll get back to you as soon as their checks clear)

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:38:46 -0500

"why not put penny whistles in our assholes and conduct a symphony?" I'll be in the kazoo section.

Rocknrope

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:37:34 -0500

zodak, damn you, you beat me to it. Mine was gonna be: Where's my jetpack?

Barbj8

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:35:51 -0500

People back in those days were so naive and had no idea how screwed up our environment would be today. I'd like to go forward with the penny whistles, though!

zodak

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:20:29 -0500

where are the flying cars?

bxbrian

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:57:34 -0500

why not put penny whistles in our assholes and conduct a symphony?

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:44:12 -0500

Why would you come up with a way to cool them off during the summer in Chicago? Why not figure out a way to warm them up in winter? Or even better, install huge wind machines to blow all of the wind away from the Windy City directing it towards Detroit (might help in cleaning it up).

Wordier

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:33:45 -0500

Like Seinfeld, I'd think I'd rather start with adding those moving airport sidewalks to our city sidewalks, if we are talking about something completely impractical.