The actual article title is "The Hidden Horror ... "
Having been there, financing is but one of its many horrors. NYC is great for many reasons. Having high end airport malls is not one of them.
Having been there, financing is but one of its many horrors. NYC is great for many reasons. Having high end airport malls is not one of them.
A lot of public-facing plazas are meant to be ornamental or monumental and nothing more, which is quite sad.
https://www.pps.org/article/wwhyte
He literally filmed what people actually did in public spaces, and came up with great guidelines to make them enjoyable.
Architects study this is school. As you say, whenever it isn't implemented, it is because they specifically chose not to, not because they don't know better.
The plazas at Herald Square and Times Square also have limited seating, but there the main limit is space.
The lack of public seating makes the place weird/uncomfortable to visit though.