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April 22, 2005
The Anti-Moses And The First Community-Based Plan
Gotham Gazette
By Tom Angotti
Remembering the father of community-based planning, Walter Thabit.
In 1961, after more than 100 community meetings, Thabit completed the Alternate Plan for Cooper Square, which proposed that the original residents of the area should be the beneficiaries and not the victims of urban renewal. Community leaders Frances Goldin, Esther Rand and Thelma Burdick were joined by many others over a period of almost 50 years to implement the community’s vision for a stable neighborhood affordable to people with modest incomes.
Posted by lumi at April 22, 2005 7:54 AM