tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20743459.post2521369653358771849..comments2024-03-27T05:26:42.117-04:00Comments on Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report: Pete Hamill suggests violation of Brooklyn scale animates the AY opposition, but there's much moreNorman Oderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07618087999719667586noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20743459.post-8771416943062403282008-10-01T22:13:00.000-04:002008-10-01T22:13:00.000-04:00I agree that unprecedented scale is not the only r...I agree that unprecedented scale is not the only reason why so many of us including DDDB hammer away at this megadevelopment “from multiple angles.” Among other things in an exceptionally long list, the megadevelopment is also ill-conceived, destructive, blighting, grasping and greedy (shuts down streets, avenues and sidewalks), badly-designed, eminent-domain-abusing, subsidy-stealing, landmark-demolishing, unjustifiably-expensive, non-transparent, public-purposeless, and corrupt.<BR/><BR/>But scale is part of it. Atlantic Yards Report has excellent resources to look at the issue of scale and I suggest the following is also worth looking at in that regard: Weighing Scale at<BR/>http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/2008/09/weighing-scale.html<BR/><BR/>Michael D. D. White <BR/>Noticing New York<BR/>http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.comMDDWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16693635186364315879noreply@blogger.com