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WORKING IN GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL

Reading New York Urbanism / Final review

PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP, by Isabel Carrasco

Founded in 1973, during a time characterized by many public manifestations against the war in Vietnam, and in favor of civil, Afro-American, gay and women rights, Park Slope Food Coop, was also created as part of that protest against the system. The main objective for this coop was not only to offer local, high quality and healthy food, but to reduce the “food inequity” by providing affordable food. The way the place is owned, is through the labor of its 16500 members, who are required to work for 2:45 hours every 4 weeks. In the place, everybody works together for a common success, receiving not only the benefits of cheaper food and other services such as a day care, but mostly the gain of living in a community.

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PARK SLOPE FOOD CO-OP.

The commons as a sharing of productive assets.

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Grasshopper measure work in progress.

Measuring the customers rating of the different markets located within the same neighbourhood, and the density of customers in relation with the surface of each one of this markets; will provide evidence of the value of the commons in PSFM, in meaning of how many people is using this sharing of economy, regardless of its small and crowded place.

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PARK SLOPE FOOD CO-OP / URBAN APPARATUS

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PARK SLOPE FOOD MARKET CO-OP / URBAN APPARATUS

During a period characterized by public manifestations, PARK SLOP FOOD CO-OP was also established as a protest. Mostly stocked with environmental friendly products, it is one of the oldest and biggest food co-op in the US. The market offers affordable prices to its members, who are required to work in different activities for around three hours every four weeks. It has a cart return service within the neighborhood, a daycare, among many other services. TheCommons.

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GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL

Firstly conceived as a landmark and one of the most visited places in New York city, I immediately was apprehended by the unseen side of Grand Central Terminal and the huge numbers that enclosures this station. Every year 26.1 million tourists visit this building, however, I think few of them set aside of its beauty to wonder themselves about how does this more than 100 years old terminal deals with 36.5 million passengers traveling each year, 44 platforms, more than 100 tracks, 33 miles track, and so on. I am interested in documenting commuting as the main function of this building, as well as the perception of the people that makes it possible, through a series of videos and photographs.

First image: Thomas Sheridan. http://archleague.org/2012/12/grand-central-sketchbook/

Third image: http://www.friv5games.com/f35611f928d561a8-before-arts-for-transit-the-grand-central-art-galleries-i-ride.html

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Chinese Spring Festival

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Mostly stocked with environmental friendly products, it is one of the oldest food co-op in the US. The low prices offered in the store are thanks to its members, who are required to work for around three hours every four weeks. https://www.foodcoop.com/about

First product after using for the first time Arcgis, Rhino, Grasshopper and AfterEffects.

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PARK SLOP FOOD MARKET CO-OP

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GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL. The busiest station in the US.

First photo from: http://www.oddcities.com/grand-central-terminal/

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PARK SLOPE FOOD CO-OP

Mostly stocked with environmental friendly products, it is one of the oldest food co-op in the US. The low prices offered in the store are thanks to its members, who are required to work for around three hours every four weeks. https://www.foodcoop.com/about

Data set selected:

Income / Food programs & residential facilities for adults and families: significance of the service provided by the market in relation with the consumers of the area.

Truck routs: market connection with its providers.

Roadbed / Buildings / Land use / Park: relation with the neighborhood in general, similar facilities and Prospect Park, the largest one in Brooklyn.

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Cognitive map of my walk down Broadway, based on the insolation at that time of the day.

Park Slope Food Co-op

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Work, entertainment and leisure. This photo illustrates the diversity of activities that can take place a in space which main purpose was to permit the transit of pedestrians. At the same time, this image makes me think that this man needs of the human flow of the sidewalk, as much as the pedestrians need to be “distracted” from their path to buy a book, sit, talk, play a game, or just change a little the direction of their walk.

This last, leads me to reflect, that maybe it is good that the sidewalk was not meant to hold other activities, rather than pedestrian circulation. In this way, the pedestrian can experience, in a smaller scale, the value of surprise in the environment, as Kevin Lynch described it in his text “The Image of the Environment”. From this photo we can also depict that even though there is something unusual in the pedestrian´s track, he is still able to find himself oriented and thus, the space can be conceived as safe and pleasurable, according to the same text.

Why sit in the middle of a street? A rare event that seems to be very successful throughout my walk down Broadway.

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