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July 12, 2005
Revitalizing Cities
The NY Times
Letter to the Editor
Nathan Glazer, professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University
In response to N. Ouroussoff's appraisal of Frank Gehry's Atlantic Yards plan (NY Times, July 5, 2005, "Seeking First to Reinvent the Sports Arena, and Then Brooklyn"):
The towers are not improved by the architect Frank Gehry's outlandish notion of slanting them so they look as if they are ready to tip over, which I assume is what attracts Mr. Ouroussoff. Ms. Jacobs was attacking "catastrophic" development, the erasing of history and complexity by master conceptions, the obliteration of the multifarious city at one blow by a massive single use.
The situation is only made worse by the necessity to take private property by eminent domain, while getting state and city subsidies, too.
Posted by lumi at July 12, 2005 6:27 AM