Many believe, and rightfully so, that you cannot fully understand a culture until you understand the language. The phenomenon of a Greenpoint resident wishing they could speak Polish to enrich their communal experience, for example, is not unique. Similarly to language holding a microscope to the culture it embeds, a city’s layout and architecture does so to its intended community. Perhaps this is why the artwork of city planner John O’Neill seems to transcend what…

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