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March 15, 2007
More Moses Reaction: 'Evenhandedness Is Disturbing'
From The Real Estate Observer:
The Wall Street Journal's architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable tackles the three shows now running under the title "Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York." She's old enough to remember battling Moses' plans, and, therefore, finds the show's "comprehensive objectivity" jarring:
"The carefully inclusive narrative tells it all in safely worded labels that neutralize outrage.... [I]ts very evenhandedness is disturbing. It is almost too cool; there was nothing evenhanded about Moses."
Here's the link to the Journal article.
NoLandGrab: Why is the attempt to recast Robert Moses's place in history important to those concerned with Atlantic Yards? Because the conflict over Bruce Ratner's controversial, eminent domain-abusing, superblock-creating, historically dense residential/mixed-use project runs along a parallel track with the Moses discussion.
Is Atlantic Yards and the "almost too cool" revisionist view of Robert Moses a reaction to New York's failure to dream big during the past three decades, as revisionists and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff would have you believe, or is it due to New York's failure to learn from past mistakes?
Posted by lumi at March 15, 2007 7:06 AM