¶ New York City
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When I was young the architects and their patrons assumed, and in fact hoped, that their great buildings would be permanent contributions to the world scene. Though the architects… thought of their buildings in this way, I have seen three separate sets of permanent buildings in New York City pulled down to be replaced by another set of assumedly permanent buildings, with the whole unexpected evolutionary displacement phenomenon repeating itself again. I have, in effect, seen three permanent waves of architecture forsaken and replaced by other permanent waves as the waves flowed northward on Manhattan Island. In the last 15 years I have seen two- and three-story-high cities of the world transformed into identical-building type skyscraper cities.
