3.15.2006

Houses or Jobs? (Lofts or Industry?)


A press room, image from the amazing New York City Public Library Digital Archives.

The Bloomberg Administration has been trying to demarcate "industrial zones" that preserve the city's thousands of small businesses (and jobs) while responding to housing pressures. Though focused on Oakland and California, this LATimes article outlines the story well - it's a story that's being narrated in dozens of cities across the country.

2 comments:

Richard Layman said...

Saw a presentation a couple years ago about this in SF. And as you know, ground zero for this was-is Brooklyn.

See Industrial Land in San Francisco: Understanding Production, Distribution, & Repair.

(I read too much.)

Did you take the photo of the reflected images?

Shin-pei said...

Thanks for the article.

No, unfortunately I didn't take the photo, and I lost the image source. My apologies to the photographer.