“Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition – hyper-density – without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan’s architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.” 

–Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978

Image: De Rotterdam by photographer Ossip Van Duivenbode via The Architectural Review