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June 11, 2007
The “Greening” of New York City
Kim Moody From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present (New Press, 2007)
Brooklyn Rail
By Richard Wells
A review of Moody's reexamination of the decline and resurgence of New York City makes the case for the importance of the environmental and economic justice movements:
Let’s not forget that there’s at least some resistance to Bloomberg’s current mega-projects, from Atlantic Yards to Gowanus to Willets Point in Queens. Plus there’s lively and informed criticism from a policy perspective, much of it pointing to more equitable kinds of development in the 21st century. So there is the potential for change. What’s needed in order to realize it, says Moody, “is the sort of mass movement that we haven’t seen for some time.”
Posted by lumi at June 11, 2007 9:04 AM