#496303 - 07/09/06 08:20 PM
Land Use Comparison: Paris vs. New York v 2
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Inspector Detector
Registered: 08/10/05
Posts: 1735
Loc: Cary, NC, USA
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Food for Thought: We compare various urban land uses which consume large amounts of land but serve few people. These present socio-political questions which are beyond the scope of this forum, but the files graphically permit consideration of the issues. Airports: these serve many business and recreational activities. They are open to everyone and probably justify themselves both economically and functionally.
In both Paris (Charles de Gaulle, Le Bourget, Orly) and New York (John F Kennedy, La Guardia, Newark), three airports provide most of the public availability within about the same distances. However, both cities have many large suburban airports (often private) serving few people.
Cemeteries:
---- These benefit nobody living, except visitors (for a generation or so.)
---- They are often exempt from taxes, despite their size.
---- They typically advertize "perpetual care." How long is perpetual? Can we expect generations 500 years from now (or more) to preserve and maintain them?
---- If cremation be used, the funeral industry attempts to sell space in "permanent" columbariums.
---- The rationale for cemeteries appears to be commercial and theological. Practices in India show that cremation and other methods of disposal could eliminate this land use, if society wanted to do so.
Golf Courses: If 20 players can tee off per hour, and a game takes up to 5 hours, then only about 100 people can benefit at any one time from these large users of land. The high costs of memberships and fees further limit their accessibility. This is probably the largest use of land serving the fewest people.
Large Estates: These are excessively large lands used for only one family. We do not have data to examine this land use.
The attached file permits quick downloading of each of the study postings:
Borders (useful for analysis, and they stay on when you zoom in.)
le-de-France and New York City
Airport Outlines:
17 in le-de-France and 28 in New York City
Golf Course Outlines:
71 in le-de-France and 14 in New York City
Cemetery Outlines:
750+ in le-de-France and 260+ in New York City
Attachments
502591-LandUseComparisonv2.kmz (624 downloads)Preview this file with the Google Earth Plugin (learn more)
Edited by PriceCollins (02/17/08 07:16 PM)
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#1255789 - 09/02/09 11:58 AM
Re: Land Use Comparison: Paris vs. New York v 2
[Re: PriceCollins]
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Traveler
Registered: 08/28/09
Posts: 2
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One important aspect to consider regarding airports is that travelers make up a minority percentage of people who are impacted by them. Their impact on the region in terms of economic development, trade, and job creation extend far beyond their benefit to frequent flyers. Some airports employ thousands of people who do not always work on airport property. i.e. truck drivers that keep the airport supplied, construction and maintenance crews, law enforcement, engineers, etc.
A major consideration of a company that is expanding to a new city is the availability of air service to transport their employees and freight/mail.
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#1258680 - 09/11/09 05:17 AM
Re: Land Use Comparison: Paris vs. New York v 2
[Re: PriceCollins]
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Master Explorer
Registered: 10/07/06
Posts: 1084
Loc: Long Island Pine Barrens, USA
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PC: This dataset along with the topics you pointed out in your post form a great example of the educational power of Google Earth. The topic of land use is an important societal and ecological issue as well as a stimulus for analytical discussions and computer-based explorations of geographic concepts. To underscore the complexity of land use issues, it is worth noting that some cemeteries, such as the huge Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn that is prominent in your dataset, serve multiple and unintended functions. Quoting their web site at Green-Wood: History of Green-Wood Cemetery
Founded in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries, the Green-Wood Cemetery soon developed an international reputation for its magnificent beauty and became the fashionable place to be buried. By 1860, Green-Wood was attracting 500,000 visitors a year, rivaling Niagara Falls as the country’s greatest tourist attraction. Crowds flocked to Green-Wood to enjoy family outings, carriage rides and sculpture viewing in the finest of first generation American landscapes. Green-Wood’s popularity helped inspire the creation of public parks, including New York City’s Central and Prospect Parks.
Today Green-Wood is 478 spectacular acres of hills, valleys, glacial ponds and paths, throughout which exists one of the largest outdoor collections of 19th- and 20th-century statuary and mausoleums. Four seasons of beauty from century-and-a-half-old trees offer a peaceful oasis to visitors, as well as its 560,000 permanent residents, including Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Charles Ebbets, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Horace Greeley, Civil War generals, baseball legends, politicians, artists, entertainers and inventors.
A magnet for history buffs and bird watchers, Green-Wood is a Revolutionary War historic site (the Battle of Long Island was fought in 1776 across what is now its grounds), a designated site on the Civil War Discovery Trail and a registered member of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System.
On September 27, 2006, Green-Wood was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior, which recognized its national significance in art, architecture, landscaping and history. It is also significant that while airports serve lots of people directly and indirectly, they also can have a major environmental impact, especially if they are located along the coast where they may have been built partially on wetlands, and introduce runoff from their impervious surfaces into adjacent waterways. In the New York area, Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark Airports are essential for the local and global economy, but have a negative effect on the coastlines where they are located.
Edited by JavaGAR (09/11/09 10:27 AM)
Edit Reason: Added comments about airports
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