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June 25, 2007
Esteemed scholars discuss need to re-think development in Brooklyn
Courier Life Publications
By Joe Maniscalco
At a panel discussion on development in Brooklyn last week, "Atlantic Yards" was mentioned as an appropriate site for real affordable housing, and one panelist warned that more Brooklynites could be affected by eminent domain.
[Mark Naison, professor of American Studies & History and director of the Urban Studies Department at Fordham University] said he’d like to see nothing but affordable housing at Atlantic Yards and the new buildings going up on 4th Avenue.
Even those who own their own homes aren’t safe from the current course of development.
“Economic development is now viewed as a public good,” said [Lance Freeman, associate professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation]. “So what’s to stop the government from taking your property and giving it to someone else for what’s viewed as a higher or better use?”
Posted by lumi at June 25, 2007 10:41 AM