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Originally Posted by counterfactual
The same old NIMBY platitudes. This is exactly the area for intense density development.
And narcissistic too. Why must everything we build as humans reflect us? Why must this be "human scale"? How about Giant scale? That's what I want.
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Human scale just means it interacts with the street well. For example, you could argue that the Empire State Building is human scaled, despite its huge size, because its street level isn't a giant wall, but a collection of storefronts and decorative elements that acknowledge that people use this building.
Too many people use the term "human scale" to simple many "short," of course, when it's a lot more complex than that.