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May 11, 2005
Jane Jacobs: Letter to Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council
Published in The Brooklyn Rail
As approved, the Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning plan has been modified since this letter was sent. However, many of Jacobs points still apply and are food for thought for the many rezoning and redevelopment projects besieging Brooklyn.
"The community’s plan does not violate the existing scale of the community, nor does it insult the visual and economic advantages of neighborhoods that are precisely of the kind that demonstrably attract artists and other live-work craftsmen, initiating spontaneous and self-organizing renewal."
Posted by lumi at May 11, 2005 8:10 AM