NYCkayaker year 2106 after the ice caps melt and we are flooded

[sandy sobanski]

That's so cute, the way they think anyone will be
healthy enough or alive to kayak. Makes me want to go
melt some more ice caps.
--- mike <mpidel at optonline.net> wrote:

>
http://polisnyc.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/new-york-2106/
> 
>  
> 
> Overview
> 
> What skyscrapers were to New York City in the
> twentieth century, vanes
> are in the twenty-second. Through the use of this
> new type of mixed-use
> building, the city has begun its recovery from
> flooding caused by the
> loss of the Earth's polar ice caps. When sea levels
> climbed, millions of
> gallons of water poured into Manhattan's low-lying
> neighborhoods. With
> the city starved for square-footage, architects
> built directly upon the
> flooded public streets. Vanes feather upwards and
> outwards through the
> streets of the Inundation Zones, creating homes,
> offices and shopping
> arcades but also parks and gardens. Their thinness
> promotes daylight and
> affords natural ventilation. Pier-like in form,
> vanes grant the city a
> dynamic relationship both with the riverfront and
> the luminous
> evaporation towers nearby. From airships overhead,
> vanes look as if New
> York's grid of streets has taken on a life of its
> own, making the city,
> in 2106, more like itself than ever before.
> 
> >
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