A messy, crowded street fair during one visit didn't help.
Le Corbusier had a hostility to the messy urban street so violent that, the architect Michael Sorkin suggests, it "can only be explained by psychoanalysis", and yet most of Ulysses takes place on these streets.
"I always reckon it looks so messy from the street," I replied.
The Chinatown where I spent much of my childhood, in Lower Manhattan, was a messy jumble of street hawkers, sludgy outdoor fish markets and streaming New Year's dragons; it was crowded, smelly, hectic and, to a kid, overwhelmingly vast.
In 1898, he had a vision that horse carts could be replaced with human-powered vehicles that would not foul the streets with messy horse byproducts.
Plus, the city rebuilt the park opposite the Coliseum site, simplified the spaghetti of streets and messy parking areas around the statue of Columbus, and created a real traffic circle.
It will also provide "solutions to Wall Street's messy antics.
The big question I had was this: How large is the gap between the neatness of data on a bar chart and the messy reality on the street?
