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June 10, 2008
Cities vs Skyscrapers
Market Movers
Portfolio.com
by Felix Salmon
Condé Nast Portfolio columnist Felix Salmon critiques BusinessWeek's recent proposition that when it comes to architecture, bigger (and newer) is always better.
Many thanks to Matthew for pointing me to an extremely peculiar 3,000-word Business Week feature on global architecture. If you want proof that the teachings of Jane Jacobs have yet to sink in around much of the rest of the world, then all you need to do is read this article, which paints global architectural activity as, in the words of the headline, "The Battle for the World's Skyline".
...And it would be very hard indeed to find many New Yorkers who agree with the Business Week article that the scaling-back of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn is "a tough blow for New York". (I suspect the authors will have lost most Brooklynites when they describe the area as "an industrial wasteland".)
Posted by lumi at June 10, 2008 1:29 PM