CRUX

CRUX at the Physical and Social Infrastructure Resiliency Workshop

"We are expecting a million more New Yorkers in a generation. To provide homes and jobs, we have to use the land we have more intensely. If you overlay a map of New York City subway system, our strategy becomes clear. We have up-zoned near transit stops and down-zoned in areas served only by cars. Our increased density comes on top of our transit system. This is called transit-oriented development, or TOD. Although other cities may be just now waking up to its virtues, New York has practiced TOD since the first subways were built a century ago. TOD is New York's DNA." (A. Washburn, The Nature of Urban Design)