Unlike suburban campuses, high-rise communities are "vertically integrated," said Paul Donaldson, an architect who worked on the Clare.
The two are part of the city's plans to replace most of its high-rise public housing with low-rise communities that mix market-rate and affordable condominiums with replacement public housing units.
He and others have argued that Manhattan is a dinosaur in the decentralized era of the Internet, and that terrorism now gives people yet another reason to prefer low-rise communities like Silicon Valley.
"We are concerned that the development proposed will not be affordable to Nycha residents, that Nycha is not consulting with the community as a whole and that losing open space in dense high-rise communities will have a negative impact on the public-housing community," she said.
Many now boast new, gated, high-rise communities.
Then there's the danger of rising community tension.
When Clement Clarke Moore turned his farmland into lots in the 1830's, he envisioned the seminary block as the heart of a low-rise community of harmonious dwellings.
On what is now a huge stretch of excavated red earth, developers are building the Cheonan-Asan New Town, a corporate park and high-rise community meant to house some 4,000 families.
"This increase in utility bills, particularly heating, is just a cheap way to compensate for the deficit of the companies that were recently privatized," declared a resident's committee in Ilsan, a high-rise community northwest of the capital.
Factors explaining this increase include changes in demography and rising community expectations regarding ED access [2].
