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June 22, 2005
URBAN RENEWAL: STADIA MANIA
The New Yorker, The Talk of the Town
by Nick Paumgarten
Ry Cooder gets it. Here's the socially conscious musician's take on Ratner's arena complex:
“I got the idea that there was some kind of controversy about all this in New York,” Cooder said last week, from his home in Santa Monica. “Is it all driven by this multi-use concept, where they have the corporate boxes and the restaurants and the stores? In other words, a mall?”
Read about Cooder's musical lament for the neighborhood demolished for the LA Dodger's stadium. Ironically, the ballpark was built when Robert Moses refused to let O'Mally build a Brooklyn ballpark at Atlantic and Flatbush.
Posted by lumi at June 22, 2005 7:58 AM