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December 21, 2006
The Morning After: Dr. Ratlove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Atlantic Yards
Commentary from Gowanus Lounge on Dr. Ratlove:
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The fact that Atlantic Yards was designed and approved with only minimal genuine public input and was the result of a process that only sought to create the appearance of responsiveness and inclusion will saddle Brooklyn with a project that we're pretty certain will prove to be a boil on the landscape in decades to come. Genuine community planning and inclusion would have produced a less disruptive development and one that would be more conducive to everything from a better streetscape to less neighborhood disruption. Instead, Atlantic Yards will serve as a monument to the Jobs and Housing Uber Alles School of Urban Economic Development from which it came.
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Us, we're reminded of a hooting and howling Slim Pickens, as Major T. J. "King" Kong, at the end of Dr. Strangelove riding the H-Bomb down from a B-52 (the embed above). Yes, it's a bit of an excessive comparison, but if you get Atlantic Yards, then you get the analogy.
Posted by lumi at December 21, 2006 9:09 AM