If only Lethern had the perspective of someone who didn't live in the (comparatively) well designed and well-planned North East. Like say, here in China.
This well planned and aesthetically reasonable solution is only unpalatably puzzling to those without an idea of the history of that area of Brooklyn. Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope behind it - the very neighborhood at issue - have been the historic offshoot of crowded lower Manhattan.
Traditionally, as large buildings replaced residences in the Wall Street area, the houses moved across the river to this section of Brooklyn, and as towers replaced large building the process continued. This is not some foreign process being grafted on the landscape of acadian Brooklyn in all of her virgin glory - it is the continuance of a centuries-long evolutionary progression.
And, if aesthetics is the hatchet you want to take to this tree, take a look at what is there now...preserving dandelions because Oaks are too large is a foolish argument.
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If only Lethern had the perspective of someone who didn't live in the (comparatively) well designed and well-planned North East. Like say, here in China.
This well planned and aesthetically reasonable solution is only unpalatably puzzling to those without an idea of the history of that area of Brooklyn. Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope behind it - the very neighborhood at issue - have been the historic offshoot of crowded lower Manhattan.
Traditionally, as large buildings replaced residences in the Wall Street area, the houses moved across the river to this section of Brooklyn, and as towers replaced large building the process continued. This is not some foreign process being grafted on the landscape of acadian Brooklyn in all of her virgin glory - it is the continuance of a centuries-long evolutionary progression.
And, if aesthetics is the hatchet you want to take to this tree, take a look at what is there now...preserving dandelions because Oaks are too large is a foolish argument.
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