He said that space improvements could be as simple as reconfiguring the furniture or painting the walls.
The project, which starts this fall, is part of a $64 million capital campaign that includes a 60 percent increase in exhibition space, improvements to the National Design Library and an increased endowment.
They include reconstruction and security improvements to county buildings, improvements to county parks, roads, bridges and parkways, acquisition of land for affordable housing and open space, improvements at Westchester Community College and acquisition of computer equipment.
Knowing the parking inventory has made it easier for the city to pursue public space improvements such as adding bike lanes or parklets, using the data to quell inevitable neighbourhood concerns about parking loss.
The report said that it was better to build flats that are too large, rather than too small: "Additional space is an important long-term investment, for if a house or flat is large enough it can usually be brought up-to-date as it gets older, but if there is not enough space improvements can be impossible, or at least unduly expensive".
"This is going to take Playland from where it's been to something that will be more akin to a blend of Bryant Park and Tivoli in Copenhagen, with a mix of commercial amusements like rides and food and public space improvements that take advantage of Long Island Sound," Mr. Biederman said after the announcement.
The method also has a variety of applications beyond the time and space improvements described above.
All the new owners have vowed to spruce up MPG's former buildings and court new tenants by putting up money for their office space improvements that MPG was unable to provide in its waning days.
With cities like Los Angeles and Chicago lining up to do what NY showed us how to do with bike lanes and other street and public space improvements, New Yorkers siding with the bike lane opponents would do well to step back and look at how shortsighted they are being.
Figure 13 Frequency spacing improvement performance of the proposed ARMA lattice method.
