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Originally Posted by pesto
I'm with Phil. Once again, if you go to NY, the 'hoods anyone wants to hang in (Greenwich Village, SoHo, Tribeca, Chelsea, the LES in general, Billyburg) are NOT high-rise. They are not even medium-rise in most cases. Conversely, Wall St. and mid-town tend toward concrete, sterility and emptiness evenings and weekends.
Most of these hoods have sprung up from abandoned warehouses and marginal areas which are attractive BECAUSE they are low-rise and on a human scale. They can be converted to human use, where big projects can't.
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But you can't be making the case that 6 floors is better than a high-rise (if you had to choose)?
This near-anti-highrise movement here in the LA Forum has gotten downright silly......
I mean, really, why are we calling this place "SkyscraperPage" anymore? Why not "UrbanPage"?
And most of the buildings in historic district are around 12 stories, not 6.
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Btw, even in mid-town, 6 story buildings far outnumber high-rise.
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The only reason why this might POSSIBLY be the case is because of Clinton. Anything east of 8th Ave. is primarily high-rises, and far exceeds 6 stories.
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