HenryAlan
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The answer is US subservience to auto-centric thinking. Most, maybe all great plazas have buildings enclosing them on the actual plaza, not across the street from the plaza. We don't do it that way here, no matter how much we might otherwise be able to borrow from the countless examples.I dunno how "visionary" you'd need to be to look at/reference the abundance of centuries-old, consistently popular and successful plazas throughout Europe (and elsewhere) and just do the same goddamn thing here.
None of this is complex math.
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I really should read the replies before replying myself, as @JeffDowntown already covered this point in the very next post after what I quoted.
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