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February 24, 2006

New York Wonders: An Island Fit for What?

The NY Times
By Nicolai Ouroussoff

Some see the Bloomberg administration's hemming and hawing over Governor's Island as an indication that City government is out of practice when it comes to planning. Forget red tape, is it possible that nothing is even conceived in NYC until it's been turned over to a large developer?

In asking developers to take the lead, government officials risk quashing creativity at the outset. More broadly, their appeal raises questions about how American cities — New York in particular — are approaching large-scale urban development these days, handing over enormous swaths of public land to private interests. In the past, such a process tended to favor conventional design solutions.

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Posted by lumi at February 24, 2006 8:22 AM