AS ALWAYS, LIFE EVENTUALLY INITIATES MARSHALL MCLUHAN: Landmarking Is Turning New York City Into a Life-Sized Historical Diorama, Reason notes.
Marshall McLuhan called this change a half-century ago; in 1967, he told Tom Wolfe, ”Of course, a city like New York is obsolete. People will no longer concentrate in great urban centers for the purpose of work. New York will become a Disneyland, a pleasure dome…”