spatial plan(scrap) : Another Chance for a Prime Piece Of Real Estate

ANOTHER CHANCE FOR A PRIME PIECE OF 

REAL ESTATE

by New York Times

What should we think before we make plan?
Do The biggest and the flashiest always mean Visoion in the realm of the cityscape?

This article say, "that is wrong" like below

This was the case even before Mr. Trump came onto the scene. An earlier plan for this land, called Lincoln West, which eventually made its way through an agonizing political process to win city approvals but was then never built, was also developer-driven. It is as if the city, whose very job it is to plan and to represent the public interest by doing so, looked at this extraordinary piece of land and had no ideas for it at all.

It's against that background that the new plan put forth by the three civic organizations must be viewed. These groups are doing what the city itself should have done years ago, which is come forward with some vision of how this land should be developed to balance public and private interests. This new plan does that - and it presents the ideal opportunity for the city to reclaim the initiative on this critical piece of land.

There is much talk these days of vision, or the lack of it, and frequent questions as to just what vision in city planning should consist of. It's a fair thing to ask, since vision is often thought to mean impractical, far-out gestures, pie-in-the-sky schemes that are the opposite of realistic. But a better definition of vision - which, after all, is the ability to see - is the will to make bold gestures that are attainable. And that is what the new plan for the Trump site is: practical, do-able, and right for the future of New York. Vision in the realm of the cityscape does not always mean the biggest and the flashiest; sometimes it means the courage to seize the moment to cut through all the noise and smoke, and emerge at common sense.