Pershing Square

Your April 5 article only gives lip service to Pershing Square’s fundamental problem: Its hideous design is as charmless and uninviting as the parking structure it crowns.

I have three suggestions for Pershing Square’s inevitable sixth make-over (which can’t come a moment too soon): 1) Fill the parking structure with dirt; 2) plant big trees; 3) require that the architect spend 30 days as a caretaker in the square after it’s rebuilt. That way, we’ll get a design that pays more attention to human needs than to abstract theory.

DAN DOBRIN

Pomona