LIC IBZ 2045

Illegoal Gasoline Emission

Landscape Connection

High Water

Global Supply Crisis Climate Change

Flooding Landscape

LIC IBZ

Local Currency

Supply Chain

Smart City

Inaccessibility and Transit

Driverless Transport

LIC IBZ 2045

Manufacturing Trade

Local Suppliers

POLICY Technology Improvement

Transportation Connection

Community Vitality

Industrial Diversity

Economic Vitality

Employment and Secure Housing

Squatter Rights

SCENARIO: ALTERNATIVE ECONOMY

Tram System

Transporting people, materials, and waste via trams across existing rail and street networks, supported by grant funding and material transport payments.

Local Currency for Manufacturers

Establishing a local currency to encourage flexible material movement among participating entities, stimulating economic growth and connecting private and public interests.

Strengthening Squatter’s Rights

Encouraging residence on-site to foster responsibility and belonging, prioritizing housing for factory workers, potentially linking communities via a transit hub.

Eminent Domain for Waterfront

Using eminent domain for acquiring waterfront property, transforming it into floodable plains, parks, and plazas while promoting communal bioremediation in exchange for housing.

Resource Support for Worker-Owned Factories

Providing resources to worker-owned factories on neglected sites in exchange for contributions toward various urban renewal initiatives.

MOBILITY

PUBLIC SPACE

Mobility: Tangible System

Abandoned railroad reuse: Vertical pedestrian transportation system & material transportation system

Inspired by similar systems in Germany and using decommissioned tracks, trams may transfer people, materials, and waste around the site. As the system is pressured to grow, it may expand to rail lines currently in use for co-current transit options.

To accomadate an increased number of residents and laborers on the site, the tram can use lines from Queen’s formerly extensive street car network, currently buried under Hunters Point Ave.

5Years

Policy Impacts and Users

20Years

Manufacturers public and private mobility adaptive reuse

The future of freight is small and to adapt to those trends manufacturers must explore new options for transit. This system will increase access to site for their labor force as well.

Laborers

Factory workers are essential to this transit system. They will decide where it needs to go, when it runs, and what/who it will transport.

Suppliers

Freight suppliers tend to rely on trucks for most shipments. As they become more climate consious, this system will be a feasible alternative.

From network to district: infrastructure and multiplicity

Mobility: Intangible System

Establishing a local currency among manufacturers, similar to IthacaHours or BayBucks, aims to spark economic activity and exchange.

Using this type of currency, manufacturers are encouraged to move their supplies as needed to other factories, firms, or institutions participating in this economy.

An increased flow in materials across the site will create new connections between private firms as well as public and non-profit organizations.

Public: Accessable Waterfront

Publicly Accessable Waterfront

Use eminent domain to acquire waterfront property, prioritizing abandoned or dilapidated parcels Land along waterfront will be used as floodable plain, including parks and plazas

Activities in these areas can encourage communal bioremediation and cleanup, maybe in exchange for housing elsewhere on site

First parks, plazas complete, use of eminent domain to acquire remaining parcels. Begin communal 5 Years

5Years Government bids for private parcels on waterfront, conversion into parks, plazas

Policy Impacts and Users

20Years

Land Owners Earth Residents land stewardship climate change

There is a complete lack of public open space in Long Island City including on the site. Residents from both areas will seek out and use these spaces as they become available.

Almost all buildings on the waterfront of the site are in the floodplain. These properties may quickly loss value as sea levels rise, and using these land for public good will benefit all.

Returning the waterfront to more natural state will protect development further inland and help remediate the damages of past industries.

Public Space: Bottom-up community governance

Strengthen Squatters Rights

Inviting people to live on site will help create a sense of belonging and responsibility for the land.

May offer tax incentivization structure for absent property owners to allow squatting provided minimum liveable conditions by owners.

Factory and other laborers may receive first priority for housing.

Community may connect to Flex Factory via Sunnyside Yards Transit Hub.

5Years Squatters move onto city owned parcels, private Absent landlords fix up their building in exchange for tax break, factory workers move in rent free

Policy Impacts and Users

20Years

land stewardship

As the price of housing becomes increasingly unaffordable for blue collar laborers, housing on site are important. This retains a labor forces and creates belonging on the site

As a temporary population, students may be the ideal residents for living in temporary and informal spaces. As young and expressive people, this will be a place for them to flourish. Immigrants

Many immigrants and their families are entering NYC, and these numbers may increase. Establishing an informmal community will be important for setting down their roots

Strengthening Squatter’s Rights Tram System

Local Currency for Manufacturers

Eminent Domain for Waterfront Resource Support for Worker-Owned Factories