Strict planning regulations have ensured that most of London's skyline is still fairly low-rise, preserving the views of significant landmarks.
He decided that to preserve the view of monumental Washington from Arlington cemetery the Pentagon would be constructed in the part of Arlington where it stands now.
These include rent controls and the indiscriminate award of historic designations which preserve the view for those who live in pretty, low-rise neighbourhoods like Greenwich Village, but put them out of bounds for everyone else.
Mr. Moylan said the designation could be useful in efforts to preserve the view, which has been threatened by high-rise development, of the Statue of Liberty from the cemetery's hilltop statue of Minerva.
In January, after a decade of litigation -- largely between Hartz and the state Department of Environmental Protection, which had asserted its authority over waterfront projects -- Hartz and the state agreed on changes that would preserve the view.
The lawyer, Peter Fleming Jr., said allegations that Mr. Rigas wasted company money to pay for personal extravagances -- like buying land to preserve the view from his home -- were so laughable that they could have come from a television comedy.
To cite a small example, the builders had to cut a notch out of one of museum's facades to preserve the view of St. Thomas Church from 54th Street.
Despite the raised voices and stinging oratory, local officials insisted at the meeting that it would be unfair to characterize Weehawken as a community sharply divided over Port Imperial South, and the Friends insisted their intent was not to block the project, but to preserve the view of the river and ensure open access to it.
Millennium Towers was so welcome -- among city officials, anyway -- that Mayor Bret Schundler and the City Council granted the project a 20-year tax abatement and a waiver of the area's normal 110-foot-height limit, which is intended to preserve the view from atop the Palisades, in exchange for a reduction in density.
