See NYC's charmless supertall skyscrapers, which one critic is calling a showy display of billionaires' stranglehold on America
Bruce Katz Courtesy of PA PressWriter Eric P. Nash claims the towers alter the skyline but add little to the city's character.A person walks in Central Park with Billionaires' Row towers looming in the background.The 21st century has seen real estate stretch to new heights. Enter the"supertall" skyscraper, defined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as a tower that clocks in at or above 984 feet — or about twice the height of the Washington Monument in DC.
"It's not that the intellectual groundwork for attractive public housing hasn't been laid out," Nash writes,"it's just that there is no fame or money in it for careerists." The 2019 opening of 30 and 35 Hudson Yards, both reaching over 1,000 feet and built atop a platform over a rail yard on Manhattan's west side, characterized that shift for Nash.Nash has few kind words to spare about the neighborhood on the city's far west side, saying it is"nothing if not completely consumed by the dollar."
He goes on:"Cities designed from the top down like Hudson Yards emit a decaying whiff of totalitarianism." They are not, he said, spaces designed for public use.
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