As the waters of the Yangtze River are made to rise, towns that are about to be submerged have to be dismantled.
The coal industry has been cut almost in half, addiction is rising, and town centers are being emptied by Walmarts.
Now it's a low-rise town of medium-size hotels, restaurants, bars and shops.
Many of those towers have been or are being demolished and replaced with low-rise town houses.
One, a low-rise town house, had 1,500 square feet of space, with a unique rhomboid layout that placed the master bedroom far from the living room.
Public housing -- mostly low-rise town houses and walk-ups -- began appearing in the 1930's to help working families in the Depression.
I kept childless-person hours, and from this perspective, Park Slope, in some ways, was comparable to Greenwich Village, with its low-rise town houses, leafy streets, cafes and delicatessens.
As I write in a news story in the Sunday paper, these places were the Levittowns of retirement life, thousands of condos in identical low-rise town houses offering comfortable living at affordable prices.
So the southern view from the 17th-floor apartment and its terraces is over the low-rise town houses of the Village with a panorama of Lower Manhattan rising above them in the distance.
Soon children and families will be able to stroll along a public esplanade, dine in restaurants and learn about the Hudson River at the Beczak Environmental Education Center, while low- and mid-rise town houses will be available for sale and rental.
