Rather than relying on large theme pubs and leisure complexes, the rival development relies on shops and up-market restaurants mixed in with other residential and business and leisure uses.
It was a questionnaire that started in the banal and tried to touch on larger themes.
And they touch on larger themes of grief and the inward-looking process of rebuilding oneself.
You also see, and hear, deeply personal and usually quite funny stories, often on larger themes related to black culture.
The museum hopes that the stories resonate with young people on a personal level, challenging them to reflect on larger themes of intolerance, bullying and injustice.
What began as an exploration of diversity in New York's elite private-school world grew into a story that touches on larger themes of identity, race and class in American society.
Stephen Saito of IFC.com wrote, "It touches on larger themes of mass unemployment, cultural alienation and technology as a crutch.
"Pollack's first novel succeeds, sometimes too didactically, in taking on such large themes as racism and bigotry, love and loyalty," Ruth Coughlin wrote here last year.
But in "Objectified" and "Urbanized," he took on progressively larger themes.
