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Planning Successful Waterfronts |
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Paper streets become powerful tools in shaping a developer's plans. Mapped streets do not need to be built immediately. They may for many years exist only as dotted lines on an official map—what planners call "paper streets." These lines become powerful tools for shaping a developer's thinking. A grid of paper streets in a waterfront zone will, by its very nature, define the scale and character of any redevelopment that takes place there. New York City's Plan of 1811 established Manhattan's grid more than a hundred years before the last parcels were developed at the northern end of the island. |
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 Detail of Commissioner's Plan of 1811 for Manhattan |
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