The new Brooklyn Bridge Park is so untained and smooth that even from the ground, it looks like an aerial shot of its own prototype.
In Japan, I noticed that the outskirts of Kyoto and Tokyo had a similar quality, except, of course, their prototypes are not displayed inside a glass box in an architect’s office the way new Brooklyn developments are. Out the window of the Shinkansen bullet train (faster than the TGV, with more leg-room and nicer toilets!) the rice fields and villages looked like most rural areas do from an airplane: aligned and geometrical, and very very tidy.
