Kunstler Responds To Ouroussoff's Article On Jane Jacobs

"In dissing Jacobs, Ouroussoff invokes the memory of the World Trade Center as a 'welcome contrast in scale' to the rest of Manhattan. 'Similarly,' he writes, 'the shimmering glass towers that frame lower Park Avenue are awe-inspiring precisely because they offer a sharp contrast to the quiet tree-lined streets of the Upper East Side.'

Pure bullshit. The twin tower buildings themselves were boring, grandiose death-traps, and the plaza between them was for thirty years a sterile wasteland of shearing winds, avoided even by winos, an object lesson in the failures of Modernist public space design."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism Listserv