Hudson Yards and the supertalls assured Covid-19 would take over NYC
Hudson Yards and the supertalls assured Covid-19 would take over NYC. The same politico-economic interests which failed the public in architecture failed in its health.
Even now those deeply embedded forces are urging a return to the way they savaged the populace, with Mr. Trump encouraging that horror, tailed by Messrs Cuomo, DeBlasio, Doctoroff, and Spitzer, the Real Estate Board, the Departments of Buildings and Health, the financial and educational institutions.
Only a few of the over-loaded hospitals are resisting return to the negligence of public weal in favor of the profit-maximizers, with constrained support of the state and municipal Departments of Health.
The proponents of luxury high-tailed it to the suburbs and off-shore to avoid the consequences of irresponsibile health protection once provided by exclusionary zoning and marketing high-pricing.
Covid-19 breeched that bubble inside the city and outside where the escapees believed in safe sanctuary, stunned to find that nowhere in the nation, in foreign lands, offshore, in yachts without safe ports, could luxurious surroundings conquer disease without aesthetic haute taste, merely avaricious hunger for classless lungs, blood and gastrointestinals.
Still, the hautes are back to proposing slick designs safe living, dining, working, entertaining, partying, investing, Utopiaing barefooted, staged remoting, artistic masking, rooftop serenading, street repurposing, blithely dreaming of no more waves of plaguing.