Many of the “innovations” that excited architects in the mid-1950s— such as the skip-stop elevators—were the root of the dissatisfaction of the late 1960s. Yamasaki’s original plan was to include long communal hallways that served the residents of several floors; as seen in Fig. 6, Yamasaki intended these corridors to serve as community gathering places, where families could relax in a manner similar to how they would on a front porch in a street-level neighborhood. However, these hallways