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March 14, 2007
Robert Moses Lives
An epic three-part exhibition on how the master builder shaped modern-day New York demonstrates the role he still plays in the life of the city.
Metropolis Magazine
By Karrie Jacobs
Unlike our current crop of Trumps and Ratners, Moses built for the public. That was his great virtue. The problem was that Moses built for a theoretical public; the actual public, especially the portion of it that had the misfortune of living in his right of way, was just a nuisance. Sadly, in recent years there’s been a return to Moses’s methods. Eminent domain, a tool he honed, is back in fashion. And lately redevelopment schemes, such as Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards, have emerged from backrooms as faits accomplis, the city’s land-use review process be damned. So Robert Moses and the Modern City seems particularly significant at this moment—or it could be if it became a catalyst for an honest discussion of the man and his methods.
Posted by lumi at March 14, 2007 6:56 AM