Talk:Equitable Building (Manhattan)

E.B. as the cause of 1916 regulations?
The article makes an impression that it was a major, if not principal, cause for the 1916 regulations. Carrol Willis (Form follows finance..., p.69) says the opposite: Equitable was completed when political support for the codes already was solid. In 1913-1915 NYC experienced a local overbuilding crisis and developers supported limitations regardless of any single project.

I'm not quite sure how to integrate this POV into article without ruining its current flow of content (most of it serving the other POV). Ideas? NVO (talk) 08:31, 3 January 2009 (UTC)