Harper's Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur on this megatower business that's going on all over West 57th Street, or, as he calls it, "Dubai-on-the-Hudson": "It might be just the place for the new mayor to draw the line in the battle between the global plutocracy and everybody else." And on the towers themselves: "Pharaonic exclusion is their motto; contempt for human scale and ordinary people their raison d'être." [Harper's]
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