
“I wish Manhattan condo towers could be required to have street frontage consisting of capsule micro-shops. The affordable retail slots would guarantee the rich folks upstairs interesting things to buy, interesting services, interesting food and drink, and constant market-driven turnover of same, while keeping the streetscape vital and allowing the city to do so many of the things cities do best.”
William Gibson
more infosource: “Cities in Fact and Fiction: An Interview with William Gibson,” by Aaron Shattuck and Gary Stix, Scientific American, August 26, 2011.
category: architecture, city, New York City, retail, urban landscape
medium: Interview


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