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July 2, 2006
Critic Goldberger calls AY a corruption of Jacobsian "mixed-use"
Atlantic Yards Report
The New Yorker architectural critic Paul Goldberger takes issue, in Metropolis Magazine, with the use of Jane Jacobs's legacy to sell Atlantic Yards.
[Goldberger] offers some skeptical words about the project within a column in the July issue of Metropolis headlined Jane-washing, with the subtitle "The danger of Jacobs’s legacy lies with developers who co-opt her ideas to justify their megaprojects."
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In downtown Brooklyn a single developer is now proposing an enormous complex of multiple towers, shops, and public space around the centerpiece of a sports arena, and he is trying to present it—like so many megaprojects today—as not just an effort at economic development but an enabler of a fine-grained urban life.
Posted by lumi at July 2, 2006 8:01 AM