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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021. (fedia.io)

submitted 3 months ago by mattblaze@federate.social to c/photography@fedia.io

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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, none of the motorcades or protests, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335

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[–] mattblaze@federate.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@argonaut While I agree that this is hard to photograph, I disagree that this helps vindicate him. The widespread adoption - untested and as an article of faith - of the "flow" theory that he promoted was responsible for several decades of disastrous, neighborhood-destroying "urban renewal" projects in NYC and elsewhere in the US. It also cemented the need to have a car in many previously walkable places.

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 3 months ago

@argonaut@mastodon.social Of course, this isn't a criticism of the buildings themselves, which were stylistically products of a much larger movement, but of exactly the larger context you're talking about. Plazas and other features around living- and work-spaces are great, but they largely precluded letting people organically evolve how we use precious urban space.