From Times Square to the Empire State Building, New York City is known for its cultural landmarks and iconic institutions, but it also has its fair share of eyesores ...
NYC is the way it is because city planners had an unflinchingly rigid grand
utopian vision that has proven to be less than effective when it comes to
issues like cost of housing, transit, and distribution of zoned areas.
There's nothing like declaring that NYC would be better off without private
cars to show that you suffer from the exact same problem. The same is true
for the notion that NYC would be better off shunting manufacturing off to
either side of the island, closed off by a three block wide "park". Has the
architect explored what happens when such zoned inflexibility occurs in
modern cities? In Boston, it led to blight and dangerous nighttime ghost
towns. In Philadelphia, the blight spread and now the once-proud city is
reeling.
These gentlemen are adherents to a reactionary, cancerous and out-of-touch
line of thinking that, at best, is ineffective and perilous.