Living 800 feet above the city
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Anyone who's interested in photography or enthralled by nature and action sports should take a web journey through his images. He'll take you around the world and to places you could never visit yourself.
I will never make that trek.
It's the ultimate expression of looking down on the little people.
Of course proximity matters. With absolutely no judgement on the victims, I'd rather have updated news about a serial killer in my neighborhood as opposed to one in Germany.
How would the serial killer affect my life? Would my life even be better after having read details of his grisly crimes (probably not)?. On the other hand if parking will be forbidden on near my house for a day while they re-surface the street it is something that will actually affect me.
2) money is acquired by advertising or subscription.
3) ads or subscriptions need people to read/view and to continue to do that.
4) the best way to influence someone to do that is through emotions.
4) news articles are selected or spun in a way that instills/increases emotions in a targeted audience.
5) if someone in Tibet gets hit by a truck then it is unlikely to produce a reaction to someone in NY.
6) if the demographically relevant person is hit by a truck related to an already unfavorable organization outside an apartment building in NY then that will have a much more likely emotional response and so will be that much more likely to be reported.
this applies to 99% of media, regardless of whether it is politics, crime or sports.
tl;dr = money.
It'd be absurd for one to lament the death of every national equally, or for you to mourn the loss of those from Boston Massacre to Boston Marathon bombing equally.
Yes, in the eyes of those further away.
Significance is not an objective universal measure. Those deaths in Syria are insignificant. There are 8 Billion + people on this planet. Maybe they'd be significant if they were pandas or tigers or something. And that's a workable perspective.
To you. And wow.
Yes proximity matters a lot. Now - if lets say Elbonian media was more concerned with American lives than Elbonian ones - it would be a valid critic.
Also - one of the cornerstones of the world order is that whatever a country does in its internal affair is their own business.
To have a person care for you is a privilege, not a right.
No, not Tom Cruise. The graffiti!
Is the portion of the High Line that runs through the building going to be a public space (or a POPS)?
In all seriousness - I've never been to nyc (never had a reason to I guess). I just don't comprehend the demand to build up. Is there really that much demand? Like at what density level does other infrastructure become a bottleneck (transit/power/water/food)?
Sure, in any city with lots of people and limited land, island cities especially. Manhattan is one, Hong Kong another.
>Like at what density level does other infrastructure become a bottleneck (transit/power/water/food)?
Good question, would be interested to see studies on this too.
I do have to ask with regards to that 453 sq ft apartment, whats the point of having a window that opens at its height?
on a side note, the gated communities of suburbia are nothing but shallow imitations of the these vertical communities which are even more exclusive
The same purpose of a window in any tower--fresh air.