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August 7, 2006
New York Magazine on the “Atlantic Yards” Project
StreetsBlog.org on the New York Magazine article:
For a few years now, the city's media elite has studiously avoided serious, honest coverage of Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. That is why it is so refreshing to see that this week's New York magazine is running the single best story on the mega-development project that I have yet seen in any mainstream press. It's by political reporter Chris Smith and it is a must-read.
Smith has a few paragraphs about the Atlantic Yards' impact on traffic and transportation, but his narrative focuses on the empirical and he isn't saying anything that the average StreetsBlog reader doesn't already know. Instead, today's StreetsBlog post homes in on Smith's conclusions about the "absolute absence of democratic process" and "developer’s savvy use of state-of-the-art political tactics."
Posted by lumi at August 7, 2006 4:02 PM