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September 27, 2007
Unifying Brooklyn Across Atlantic Yards
Group Offers Alternative to Forest City Ratner Plan
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Jeffrey Harmatz
Responding to the large and vocal resistance to Forest City Ratner’s planned development at the Atlantic Yards site, the Unity Project unveiled their design for a more sustainable, probable, and community-oriented alternative plan.
On display at the Soapbox Gallery on Dean Street near the Yards site, the design incorporates green architecture, public open spaces, and affordable housing in a design that has gained the support of many local politicians and members of the community.
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"This development alternative makes Frank Gehry look like an amateur," said Dr. Tom Angotti, professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and one of the lead designers of the Unity Plan. "We had 80 individual experts working on this, which is a tremendous amount of collective intelligence.""Our basic site strategy was to bring the surrounding neighborhoods together," said designer Marshall Brown. "We’re adding new streets and trying to provide a much more diverse program of schools, community theaters, senior centers, retail, and on top of that, housing."
Posted by lumi at September 27, 2007 6:40 AM