The Placemaking Round-Up
A biweekly newsletter with public space news, resources, and opportunities.
The Biweekly Bazaar
A curated dispatch on all things public markets plus the latest announcements from the Market Cities Program.
A biweekly newsletter with public space news, resources, and opportunities.
A curated dispatch on all things public markets plus the latest announcements from the Market Cities Program.
Please note that these Hall of Shame nominations were written in a moment in time (most over a decade ago) and likely have since changed or even been transformed. If the above entry is now great, or still not so great, go ahead and comment below on how it has evolved or nominate it as a great place.
This plaza is so out of scale it could *almost* make Boston's City Hall & Plaza look good.
This Government Center for the State of New York is one of the largest urban renewal projects ever in US. It is Le Corbusier's vision of the modern city and the antithesis of urbanism. An enormous elevated plaza the size of an airport runway surrounded by many identical 1960s high rises plus an egg shaped building. A freeway runs under the plaza. If thatÍs not bad enough, it leveled almost 100 acres of historic urban neighborhoods and cost $1 billion in 1974 dollars.
This is an empty, wind swept plaza with no human scale what-so-ever.
The plaza is made completely of hard surfaces, has very few places to sit, ugly architecture, and most of all, an out of scale feeling.
The only use for the plaza is walking from point A to point B.
There is no way you could meet anyone here because (1) it is so inhospitable, and (2) so large you wouldnÍt be able to find them.
*Please note that these Hall of Shame nominations were written in a moment in time (most over a decade ago) and likely have since changed or even been transformed. If the above entry is now great, or still not so great, go ahead and comment below on how it has evolved or nominate it as a great place.
