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November 6, 2006
Stuyvesant Town, Queens West And The Debate Over Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses
Gotham Gazette
By Brad Lander
The Jacobs-Moses debate continues.
Many community stakeholders around the Atlantic Yards plan have already chosen sides:
Neighborhood residents look at such projects as Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, and see the kind of imperial efforts used by Robert Moses to roll over communities (as detailed in the biography of him by Robert Caro, The Power Broker). They cite Jacobs for her love of the “ballet of neighborhood life” and her opposition to planning from the top down, memorialized in her classic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
However, Brad Lander of the Pratt Center for Community Development looks forward to a hybrid between the two development models, as he seeks to include more affordable housing in city-sponsored plans.
Posted by lumi at November 6, 2006 8:56 AM