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Trash Tubes of the Future

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Channel: Columbia GSAPP · 2013 · Education

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2012.02.07
http://events.gsapp.org/event/trash-tubes-of-the-future

On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 we had a sneak peek at the preliminary results of two new New York state-funded research projects into pneumatic tube trash systems, including one looking at the feasibility of a High Line pilot plant, followed by a lively conversation about the future of waste disposal in New York City featuring Vishaan Chakrabarti, Claire Weisz, Marcia Byrstryn, Juliette Spertus, and Benjamin Miller.
 
Pneumatic tube transportation has a long and mixed history in New York - the city's first subterranean railway was a 294ft-long pneumatic tube opened in 1870 beneath City Hall, and, to this day, Roosevelt Island's pneumatic tube trash system means that its 12,000 residents never have to buy garbage bags. Panelists Juliette Spertus (architect and curator of Fast Trash), Benjamin Miller (author of Fat of the Land: The Garbage Of New York-The Last Two Hundred Years), Vishaan Chakrabarti (Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate at Columbia University and former senior adviser to the Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Planning Commission on all urban planning issues throughout Manhattan), Claire Weisz (Co-Executive Director of The Design Trust for Public Space and founding partner of WXY Architecture + Urban Design, the firm working on the design for the city's new Hugo Neu Marine Terminal Recycling Facility) and Marcia Byrstryn (President of the New York League of Conservation.

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