BASIC RULE OF URBANISM: The city is supposed to look good from street-level: NOT bird's eye, NOT at a distance.
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Replying to @380kmh
A city that looks striking and glamorous from a distance is just a sculpture, not a place to live or work.
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Replying to @380kmh
Albany has Empire State Plaza, it was frequently deserted after 5 but I loved hanging out there, surreal and empty and opulent
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Replying to @jibrish_weaver
it's a cool place, but it bums me out to think of the neighborhood they bulldozed to build it...
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Replying to @380kmh
legit, I can't imagine people being kicked out of their homes like that
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Replying to @jibrish_weaver
similar things happened in cities all over the USA at that time--Boston's West End, for example
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Replying to @380kmh @jibrish_weaver
thousands displaced, countless businesses wiped outpic.twitter.com/MHEBRJzABk
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Replying to @380kmh
dang, I'm gonna show off my ignorance of Boston here, what were they building?
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