New York City, such a beautiful disease

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评语：You can’t stop a city from developing. What the city can do is find a way to make as many voices heard as possible, and try to strike a balance. Without Robert Moses, we’d never have Lincoln center. Without Jane jacobs, east village would be gone. There’s hardly ever a perfect solution, cuz everyone has their own stories, and every perspective is equally valid. Without a centralized power like Robert Moses and politics and architects of the 1950s, when everything conformed to a top-down decision, nothing would get done. The Empire State was once an atrocity, now New York wouldn’t be New York without it. “Community character” is never permanent, and I don’t think it should be. As long as the public is substantially involved, and the action is, shall we say, not ugly, of course “substantial” and “ugly” is always subjective, it’s a missed opportunity to let a place rot to prevent community displacement. Because the market will make its way sooner or later. At the end, you can’t argue with cold hard cash. Wealth makes things happen their way, for better or worse, like how John D Rockefeller funded the building of Lincoln center. No matter how much we sympathize with the old Lincoln square residents, how much they deserve to keep their happy, comfortable life, they had to make way to the new regime where power and money was. At the same time we need counter voices with a strong resistance to avoid things like the demolition of the original Penn Station, and the MetLife/Pan Am building, happening again. What a tragedy.

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评语：Incisive, well written

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