[epistasis]

Many many people want to live in a concrete jungle, which is why NYC is so popular.

Public housing in the US did not fail because it was in large concrete towers. It failed because it was isolated from the economic community, it was not maintained, and it was sabotaged on the funding side.

Mass produced cement blocks are a fantastic way to live, and much of the rest of the world uses to great effect, some for public housing, but also for middle class and upper class housing.

It's so weird that so many in the US have this odd fixation that because they personally don't want that concert box, that so many others would kit absolutely looooove to live there. Check out Asia some time, or basically anywhere else in the world.

The small mindedness of "I don't like it therefore nobody ever could and you should never be allowed to live differently than the way I like" is a very destructive force in the US. We have apparently lost the ability to "let live" in "live and let live. "

[thsksbd]

NYC is popular for the people who make a rich community with diverse things to see, do, talk, eat, etc.

Aside from some Art Deco here and there (looking at you Chrysler building, you sexy you!), the actual city is hideous.