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August 15, 2006
Slate, in other magazines: Summaries of what's in Time, Newsweek, etc.
Slate.com includes "Ratzilla Attacks Brooklyn" in its line up of summaries major magazine articles for the week.
The cover story analyzes the debate over Bruce Ratner and Frank Gehry's controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. Ultimately, it comes out against the development, partially out of skepticism of the proposed benefits, which include mixed-income housing and an economic boom, but mainly because of dismay at the strong-armed tactics of its proponents: "It's outrageous to see the absolute absence of democratic process. There's been no point in the past four years at which the public has been given a meaningful chance to decide whether something this big and transformative should be built on public property," the author writes.
Posted by lumi at August 15, 2006 8:20 AM